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...
Many academic disciplines have taken a spatial turn in recent years, and environmental crisis is on everybody's lips, but all too often students, scho...
The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments in which people live, work, and play. These readings highlight the ways in which space and place are produced through large- and small-scale social, political, and economic practices, and...
The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make se...