A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works.
The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology,...
A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologi...
"The New Berlin is a notable contribution to human geography and to the interdisciplinary literature on social memory and place making. Till's methods and scholarship have provided the conceptual groundwork for the exploration and development of place making, social memory, and spatial haunting through the particular practices and politics of the new Berlin. Her readable style is marked by a narrative economy in which every word and sentence serves the larger purposes of the book. I recommend this book to anyone--student, scholar, or practitioner--who is interested in the social...
"The New Berlin is a notable contribution to human geography and to the interdisciplinary literature on social memory and place making. Till...
