This text introduces students of human geography to the fundamentalconcept of place, marrying everyday uses of the term with thecomplex theoretical debates that have grown up around it.
* A short introduction to one of the most fundamental concepts inhuman geography
* Marries everyday uses of the term "place" with the more complextheoretical debates that have grown up around it
* Makes the debates intelligible to students, using familiarstories as a way into more abstract ideas
* Excerpts and discusses key papers on place by Doreen Massey andDavid Harvey
* Considers empirical examples of ways in which the concept ofplace has been used in research
* Teaching and learning aids include an annotated bibliography,lists of key readings and texts, a survey of web resources,suggested pedagogical resources and possible student projects

Tim Cresswell is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of In Place / Out of Place (1996) and The Tramp in America (2001). He is also the co-editor of Mobilizing Place. Placing Mobility (2003) and Engaging Film (2002).

List of Figures ix
Series Editors' Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction: Defining Place 1
Space and Place 8
Place and Landscape 10
Place as a Way of Understanding 11
The Remainder of the Book 12
2 The Genealogy of Place 15
Regional Geography 16
Discovering Place: Humanistic Geography 18
Place as Home 24
Radical Human Geography and the Politics of Place 26
Place as 'Being-in-the-World' versus Place as Social Construct 29
Place, Practice and Process 33
Place, Openness and Change 39
The End of Place? 43
Conclusion: Versions of Place 49
3 Reading 'A Global Sense of Place' 53
Historial Context 53
Harvey on Place 55
A Global Sense of Place 63
Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place 75
Conclusions 79
4 Working with Place 81
Creating Places 82
In Place/Out-of-Place: Anachorism 102
Conclusions 122
5 Place Resources 125
Key Books on Place 125
Key papers on Place 130
Introductory Texts on Place 132
Other Books and Papers on Place 132
Other Approaches to Place: Ecology, Planning, Architecture 134
Key Journals 136
Web Resources 138
Student Projects and Exercises 139
Bibliography 145
Index 151