Topophilia: Environmental Research: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values
Topophilia: Environmental Research: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values
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In 1952, waking up in the California desert and seeing a sunrise coloring the mountains, Yi-Fu Tuan, a young Chinese-American geographer, first pondered the nature of positive geographical experience. Why do we love certain places so much? At the center of his book is the concept of topophilia—the emotional connection between humans and their environment. Yi-Fu Tuan traces the formation of this feeling from its phenomenological foundations, demonstrating the role that species, group, and individual attitudes play in our perception of the environment. He explores the evolution of human understanding of the environment, focusing on such fundamental categories as city, suburb, countryside, and wilderness. The history of topophilia is described using a wealth of historical and ethnographic material: the author draws on the lives of the Eskimos, Kalahari Bushmen, Pueblo Indians, ancient worldviews, medieval Chinese and European painting, 19th-century utopian theories, studies of American suburban life, and much more.
Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022) was a geographer and the founder of humanistic geography, which studies human geographical experience through a synthesis of natural science and the humanities. He was a laureate of the 2012 Vautrin Ludas International Prize, awarded for outstanding achievements in geography.
Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022) was a geographer and the founder of humanistic geography, which studies human geographical experience through a synthesis of natural science and the humanities. He was a laureate of the 2012 Vautrin Ludas International Prize, awarded for outstanding achievements in geography.
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