ISBN:
9780415664967
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (481 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The People, Place, and Space Reader
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 offer new wa
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Editors biographies; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1 Diverse Conceptions between People, Place, and Space; Editors' Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading; 1 Constructing Differences in Public Spaces: Race, Class, and Gender as Interlocking Systems (1996); 2 Spacetime and the World (2005); 3 Psychological Ecology (1943); 4 Junkspace (2002); 5 One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997); 6 Spatializing Culture: An Engaged Anthropological Approach to Space and Place (2014)
Description / Table of Contents:
Section 2 Human Perception and Environmental ExperienceEditors' Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading; 7 Psychological Maps of Paris (1970); 8 The City Image and Its Elements (1960); 9 The Theory of Affordances (1979); 10 Spatial Invasion (1969); 11 Theory of the Dérive and Definitions (1958); Section 3 Place and Identity; Editors' Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading; 12 Place-identity: Physical World Socialization of the Self (1983); 13 Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space (1995)
Description / Table of Contents:
14 The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category (1987)15 The Brandon Archive (2005); 16 The Poor Little Rich Man (1900); 17 Migration, Material Culture and Tragedy: Four Moments in Caribbean Migration (2008); Section 4 Power, Subjectivity, and Space; Editors' Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading; 18 Tall Storeys (2008); 19 Desire and the Prosthetics of Supervision: A Case of Maquiladora Flexibility (2001); 20 Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (2007)
Description / Table of Contents:
21 The Social Becomes the Spatial, the Spatial Becomes the Social: Enclosures, Social Change and the Becoming of Places in the Swedish Province of Skåne (1985)22 Software-sorted Geographies (2005); 23 The Habitus and the Space of Life-styles (1984); Section 5 Meanings of Home; Editors' Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading; 24 Domesticity (1986); 25 Disability, Embodiment and the Meaning of the Home (2004); 26 You Got to Remember You Live in Public Housing: Place-making in an American Housing Project'' (2008); 27 The House as Symbol of the Self (1974); 28 Home Rules (1994)
Description / Table of Contents:
29 Home: Territory and Identity (2000)Section 6 "Public" and "Private"; Editors' Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading; 30 Putting the Public Back into Public Space (1998); 31 To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights, and Social Justice (2003); 32 Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing (2001); 33 Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public: Gay Uses of the Streets (1995); 34 People Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Phillip Johnson (1998); 35 The Prison of "Public Space" (2008); Section 7 The Urban Experience
Description / Table of Contents:
Editors' Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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