Monday 29 November 2010

Place

Tim Cresswell's book, Place; A Short Introduction has been stimulating my mind this weekend.
I have been dipping into a few books about Human Geography without much success for this project, but Cresswell's book is really interesting.
As it says, it is an introduction, and for me a really interesting way of looking at my project from a slightly different perspective.
A couple of quotes from the book that pertain directly to my thinking:
"We do not live in landscapes - we look at them" Or 'hear' in this case.
"Naming is one of the ways space can be given meaning and become place".
'What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value..." Cresswell quoting Yi-Fu Tuan.

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