• ISBN13: 9780850861761
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Sage Publishing Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: January 1, 2008
• Pages: 176
• Original Price: GBP 55.0
• Language: English
• Edition: UK
• Item Weight: 249 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Human Geography and Earth Sciences / Geography

First published forty years ago and still widely referenced, Edward Relph′s Place and Placelessness has taken its place as a classic of the phenomenological approach to the study of place and has influenced a generation of scholars.

For this reprint Professor Relph has written a new introduction setting his original work in its contemporary context. He shows how the concepts of place have been modified and yet continue to be of vital importance in interpreting a world which travel and commerce have made very different from that of 1976. In his words: "sense of place has the potential to serve as a pragmatic foundation for addressing the profound local and global challenges, such as climate change and economic disparity, that are emerging in the present century."