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University of Minnesota Press [Published Date: 1977]. Softcover, ix, 235 pp ; black and white illustrations; 23 cm. Fifth printing, 1989.
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In very good condition. Glossy white illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Not Ex-library. [From back cover] In this book, geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space and place. Place is security, he suggests, and space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Tuan develops his work from a single perspective - that of human experience - and his aim is to be exploratory and suggestive rather than to have the last word in an area where our knowledge is tentative at best. [Contents] Introduction; Experiential perspective; Space, place and the child; Body, personal relations, and spatial values; Spaciousness and crowding; Spatial ability, knowledge, and place; Mythical space and place; Architectural space and awareness; Time in experiential space; Intimate experiences of place; Attachment to homeland; Visibility: the creation of place; Time and place; Epilogue.