Title & Author:

Place/culture/representation / edited by James Duncan and David Ley.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Description:

ix, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author and authority : writing the new cultural geography / Denis Cosgrove, Mona Domosh -- Sites of representation : place, time and the discourse of the other / James Duncan -- Spectacle and text : landscape metaphors in cultural geography / Stephen Daniels, Denis Cosgrove -- Lie that blinds : destabilizing the text of landscape / Jonathan Smith -- Revaluing the house / Deryck Holdsworth -- Public housing in single-industry towns : changing landscapes of paternalism / Don Mitchell -- Co-operative housing as a moral landscape : re-examining "The Postmodern City" / David Ley -- Myths and meanings of gentrification / Caroline Mills -- "This heaven gives me migraines" : the problems and promise of landscapes of leisure / Stacy Warren.
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development : the culture-building process within an institution / Paul Kariya -- Multiculturalism : representing a Canadian institution / Audrey Kobayashi -- Representing power : the politics and poetics of urban form in the Kandyan Kingdom / James Duncan -- Representing space : space, scale and culture in social science / John Agnew -- Interventions in the historical geography of modernity : social theory, spatiality and the politics of representation / Derek Gregory -- Reading, community and a sense of place / Brian Stock.

Summary:

Discussing authorial power, landscape metaphor and the notions of community and sense of place, this explores the ways in which spatial and cultural analysis have found much common ground in making sense of ourselves and the landscape we inhabit.

Resources:
Table of contents
E-book

ISBN:

041509450X (hard)
9780415094504 (hard)
0415094518 (pbk.)
9780415094511 (pbk.)

Subject:

American ORT Federation
Human geography Philosophy.
Landscape assessment.
Géographie humaine Philosophie.
Paysages Évaluation.
Anthropogeografie
Darstellung
Landschaft
Sozialgeografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Ort
Culturele geografie.
Steden.
Cultuurlandschappen.
Human geography.
Culture Related to Environment

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Duncan, James S.
Ley, David.
Duncan James S.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 103768
Call No.: ID GF21.P55; ID:94-B1848
Status: Available