The People, Place, and Space Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415664967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 480 str.

William Mangold; Jen Gieseking; Katz Cindi

Opis

Many academic disciplines have taken a spatial turn in recent years, and environmental crisis is on everybody's lips, but all too often students, scholars, and practitioners do not know where to go to read about the issues that spark their imaginations. People, Place and Space provides a broad, theoretically informed introduction and brings together key texts from a variety of disciplines that focus on environment, space, and place as they relate to both the mundane and the spectacular in the everyday lives of people. As interdisciplinary studies proliferate dramatically and the boundaries between such things as area studies, cultural studies, urban studies, and environmental studies become more porous, this compendium of readings on space and place is relevant to an increasing number of students in a wide variety of fields. This reader provides the integrated analytical tools and imaginative theories that will prod an individual from any discipline to think harder and reach farther on the many issues raised by the human environment.

Spis treści

Introduction  1 Conceiving the Person-Environment Relation  2 Place and Identity  3 Environmental Cognition & Human Development  4 Activity in Space  5 Housing and Home  6 "Public" and "Private"  7 Landscape and "Nature"  8 The Urban Experience  9 Operating Across Spaces: Technology and Scale  10 The Social Production of Space and Time  11 The Power of the Geographical Imagination  12 Transformation of and Possibility for Space and Place

O autorze

Jen Jack Gieseking is a cultural geographer and environmental psychologist and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin College.
William Mangold is a partner in a small design firm and Adjunct Professor in Interior Design at Pratt Institute.
Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography, Environmental Psychology, Women’s Studies, and American Studies and Executive Officer of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Setha Low is Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropoly, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Susan Saegert is Professor of Environmental Psychology, founding director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, and former director of the Center for Human Environments, all at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.