Place and Placelessness (Research in planning & design) - Softcover

Relph, E.

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9780850861112: Place and Placelessness (Research in planning & design)

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ISBN 10: 085086111X ISBN 13: 9780850861112

Publisher: Pion Ltd, 1984

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First published forty years ago and still widely referenced, Edward Relph's Place and Placelessness has taken its place as a classic of the phenomenological approach to the study of place and has influenced a generation of scholars.

For this reprint Professor Relph has written a new introduction setting his original work in its contemporary context. He shows how the concepts of place have been modified and yet continue to be of vital importance in interpreting a world which travel and commerce have made very different from that of 1976. In his words: “sense of place has the potential to serve as a pragmatic foundation for addressing the profound local and global challenges, such as climate change and economic disparity, that are emerging in the present century.”

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Edward Relph is Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning of the University of Toronto. He was honoured in 2007 by the Canadian Association of Geographers with its award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography.

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