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Sense of place. The term sense of place has been used in many different ways. It is a multidimensional, complex construct used to characterize the relationship between people and spatial settings. [1] It is a characteristic that some geographic places have and some do not, [2] while to others it is a feeling or perception held by people (not by ...
Thucydides Trap. Bust of Thucydides. The Thucydides Trap, or Thucydides' Trap, is a term popularized by American political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon. [1] The term exploded in popularity in ...
Placemaking is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. Placemaking capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration, and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that improve urban vitality and promote people's health, happiness, and well-being. It is political due to the nature of ...
Edward "Ted" Relph is a Canadian geographer, best known for the book Place and Placelessness. Career [ edit ] Relph grew up in Wales in the Wye Valley and studied at the Joint School of Geography at the University of London and at the University of Toronto.
Deterritorialization. In critical theory, deterritorialization is the process by which a social relation, called a territory, has its current organization and context altered, mutated or destroyed. The components then constitute a new territory, which is the process of reterritorialization . The idea was developed and proposed in the work of ...
Critical regionalism. Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern architecture. The stylings of critical regionalism seek to provide an architecture rooted in the modern ...
Alma mater. University of Oxford ( B.A., M.A.) University of California, Berkeley ( Ph.D.) Academic work. Discipline. Humanistic geography. Yi-Fu Tuan ( Chinese: 段義孚; December 5, 1930 – August 10, 2022) was a Chinese-born American geographer and writer. He was one of the key figures in human geography and arguably the most important ...
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( SEP) is a freely available online philosophy resource published and maintained by Stanford University, encompassing both an online encyclopedia of philosophy and peer-reviewed original publication. [1] [2] Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from many ...