Space and place : the perspective of experience / Yi-Fu Tuan.

By: Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930- [author].

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BookPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1977]Copyright date: ©1977Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.Description: vi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780816638772 (paperback).Subject(s): Geographical perception

| Space perception

| Human beings -- Effect of environment on

| Space and time

| Environmental psychology

| Human geography

DDC classification: 304.2

Contents:

Introduction -- Experiential perspective -- space, place and the child -- Body, personal relations, and spatial values -- Spaciousness and crowding -- spatial ability, knowledge, and place -- Mythical space and place -- Architectural space and awareness -- Time in experiential space -- Intimate experiences of place -- Attachment to homeland -- Visibility: the creation of place -- Time and place -- Epilogue.

Summary: "In the twenty-five years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He suggests that place is security and space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Whether he is considering sacred versus “biased” space, mythical space and place, time in experiential space, or cultural attachments to space, Tuan’s analysis is thoughtful and insightful." -- Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	304.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	15/02/2024	00231004

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time."Since it is the breadth and universality of his argument that concerns Yi-Fu Tuan, experience is defined as 'all the modes by which a person knows and constructs reality,' and examples are taken with equal ease from non-literate cultures, from ancient and modern oriental and western civilizations, from novels, poetry, anthropology, psychology, and theology. The result is a remarkable synthesis, which reflects well the subtleties of experience and yet avoids the pitfalls of arbitrary classification and facile generalization. For these reasons, and for its general tone and erudition and humanism, this book will surely be one that will endure when the current flurry of academic interest in environmental experience abates." Canadian Geographer

Ninth printing, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the twenty-five years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He suggests that place is security and space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Whether he is considering sacred versus “biased” space, mythical space and place, time in experiential space, or cultural attachments to space, Tuan’s analysis is thoughtful and insightful." -- Back cover.