Place: A Short Introduction

Defining Place. Space and Place. Place and Landscape. Place as a Way of Understanding. The Remainder of the Book. 2. The Genealogy of Place. Regional Geography. Discovering Place: Humanistic Geography. Place as Home. Radical Human Geography and the Politics of Place. Place as 'Being--in--the--world' versus Place as Social Construct. Place, Practice and Process. Place, Openness and Change. The End of Place?.

Versions of Place. 3. Reading 'A Global Sense of Place'. Historial Context. Harvey on Place. A Global Sense of Place. Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place. Conclusions. 4. Working with Place. Creating Places. In Place / Out--of--place Anachorism. Conclusions. 5. Place Resources. Key Books on Place. Key papers on Place. Introductory Texts on Place. Other Books and Papers on Place. Other Approaches to Place: Ecology, Planning, Architecture. Key Journals. Web Resources. Student Projects and Exercises. Bibliography. Index.