Place an introduction

List of Figures ix     Acknowledgments x     Foreword xi     1 Introduction: Defining Place 1     Space and Place 15     Place and Landscape 17     Place as a Way of Understanding 18     The Remainder of the Book 18     2 The Genealogy of Place 23     The Emergence of Place in Western Thought 25     Describing Places in Regional Geography 30     Discovering Place: Humanistic Geography 33     Place as Home? 39     Radical Human Geography and the Politics of Place 41     Place as    Being-in-the-World    versus Place as Social Construct 46     Assembling Place 51     Conclusions: Versions of Place 54     3 Place in a Mobile World 62     Place, Practice, and Process 62     Place, Openness, and Change 71     The End of Place? 75     Place, Identity, and Mobility 81     Conclusion 84     4 Reading    A Global Sense of Place    88     Historical Context 88     Harvey on Place 90        A Global Sense of Place    98     Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place 109     Conclusions 113     5 Working with Place     Creating Places 115     Creating Place in a Mobile World 116     Place and Memory 119     Place and Architecture 128     A Nice Place to Live 135     Regions and Nations as Places 141     Digital Place 144     Place and Art 150     Conclusions 160     6 Working with Place     Anachorism 165     Sexuality Out-of-Place 167     The Homeless     People without Place 173     Animals Out-of-Place 186     Conclusions 190     7 Place Resources 194     Key Books on Place 194     Introductory Texts on Place 203     Key Papers on Place 203     Other Books and Papers on Place 204     Key Journals 209     Web Resources 211     Student Projects and Essays 212     Index 217