The Routledge handbook of place
by ProQuest (Firme), Edensor, Tim, Kothari, Uma, Kalandides Ares
« The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contem…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: GEOGRAPHIES OF LIGHT AND DARK -- Part I. Light -- 1. Seeing with Landscape, Seeing with Light -- 2. Under the Dynamic Sky: Living and Creating with Light -- Part II. Illumination -- 3. Electric Desire: Lighti…
Despite the shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness …
Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the sub…
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the…