perceptions architecture environmental cosmopoliteÕs

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2 reviews
Yi-Fu Tuan

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Cure for a figurative head cold
Yi-Fu Tuan says that "a human being is an animal who is congenitally indisposed to accept reality as it is." He says ESCAPISM is the strategy we employ to rid ourselves of the humdrum of daily life which he likens to suffering a head cold. The book itself is a good head-clearing remedy. Tuan covers a wide range of topics in human cultural history and gives us a lot to think about. He gives an ...

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

4 reviews
Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Minnesota Press, 1981

The phenomenology of space and place
In "Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience," Tuan provides a descriptive account of the concepts "space" and "place," drawing on the work of phenomenologists, anthropologists, psychologists, geographers, and others. He grounds his analysis in a structuralist framework, using anthropological research to illustrate how our experiences of space and place can "transcend cultural ...

Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets

1 review
Yi-Fu Tuan

Yale University Press, 2004

An excellent piece on the theory of domination
This book was recommended to me by a history professor at the school I currently attend. He introduced this piece as a work that he enjoys using in his environmental history class. At the surface level, this work gives an excellent examination of the dominance of the human subject within its environment. The writing is very clear and often playful and clever. But there is another trend within ...

Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values

2 reviews
Yi-Fu Tuan

Columbia University Press, 1990

The seeds of Tuan's "humanistic geography"
After reading Yi-Fu Tuan's "Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience," delving into "Topophilia" is a bit like stepping backward in the philosopher's evolution of thought. There are astounding passages of wisdom here, about the nature of human experience as it relates to the environment -- interspersed, sometimes jarringly, with related histories and descriptions. The seeds of Tuan's ...

Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance

19 reviews
Neil Harris, Erika Doss, ...

Flammarion, 1998

Engaging Thoughts about Disney
Many books on Disney's art and achitecture try to convey its appeal primarily through the visual. Other books, particularly those that whole-heartedly criticize Disney, try to ignore the appeal of Disney altogether. This book attempts to integrate the visual evidence (photos, concept art) with academic writing on Disney (Karal Ann Marling, Erika Doss, Greil Marcus, etc.). Together, these aspects ...

TOPOFILIA
YI-FU TUAN

MELUSINA, 2008

El cosmos de los indios pueblo. la cartografía líquida de los pigmeos. las cosmovisiones egipcia y china. el mundo del ratero de la megalópolis occidental son algunas de las construcciones culturales que Yi-Fu Tuan estudia con su limpia y erudita mirada de geógrafo de la cultura.Construcción y destrucción se confunden a lo largo de la historia humana y el autor. buen conocedor de esta dialéctica insondable. nos ofrece un poderoso remedio contra ...

A Historical Geography of China
Yi-Fu Tuan

Aldine Transaction, 2008

Human Goodness
Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Wisconsin Press, 2008

In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds. Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and enormously exciting. In a refreshing antidote to skeptical times, he writes of ordinary human ...

Place, Art, And Self
Yi-Fu Tuan, Tammy Mercure

University of Virginia Press, 2004

"What do place, art, and self have in common? To what extent do place and art define who we are?" In Place, Art, and Self, the renowned humanistic geographer Yi-Fu Tuan tackles this large question in a small, accessible, beautifully illustrated book. Through memoir and the insights gained from a peripatetic life as an international scholar, Tuan explores the idea of attachment through place and art and the role of attachment in shaping, ...

Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture (Kodansha Globe)
Yi-Fu Tuan

Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995

In this rich and rewarding work, Yi-Fu Tuan vividly demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential components of life and society. The aesthetic is not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the individual and his physical world, Tuan's exploration progresses from the simple to the complex. His initial evaluation of the building blocks of aesthetic experience (sight, ...

Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Wisconsin Press, 1999

"A stunningly good book-entrancing, exciting, beautifully written, full of aperus that stimulate, tantalize, and fulfill. Perhaps it is enough to say that I like it even better than any of Tuan's already published books." -David Lowenthal, author of The Past Is a Foreign Country Who Am I? reveals the bittersweet success story of a Chinese-American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of ...

World Views: Maps and Art
Robert Bruce Silberman, Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Cosmos and Hearth: A CosmopoliteÕs Viewpoint

1 review
Tuan Yi Fu, Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Brilliant!
Tuan is one of the most insightful writers working in the area of place and space. All of his books are worth a read, and this one makes his thought even more relevant to the current political situation.

Coming Home to China

1 review
Yi-Fu Tuan

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2007

Fascinating, personal observations
Yi-Fu Tuan is a towering figure in cultural geography -- so towering that he rises above the discipline's ceiling and is visible and inspiring as a writer/philosopher to a far broader audience of academics and "lay" readers. You certainly don't need to be a geographer to admire this book for its constant stream of observations and commentary on modern China reflecting Tuan's distinctive ...

Morality & Imagination

1 review
Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Wisconsin Press, 1989

Perceptive and insightful contribution to moral development.
I am a big fan of Yi-Fu Tuan's books. This is not the sort of claim most people would advance for an academic author - but then, Tuan is not your typical academic. His work represents the best of the geographical tradition. It is synoptic and synthetic, moving deftly from physical culture and landscape to the moral and imaginative aspects of cultural life. His books assume no specialized ...

The Good Life
Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Geography and the Human Spirit
Anne Buttimer

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

What does it mean to dwell? Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In Geography and the Human Spirit, Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and ...

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