Description
What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual.
Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values. Topophilia examines the search for environment in the city, suburb, countryside, and wilderness from a dialectical perspective, distinguishes different types of environmental experience, and describes their character.Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 11/20/1990
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780231073950
ISBN10: 023107395X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
About the Author
Yi-Fu Tuan is Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin.