Making Sense of Place: Exploring Concepts and Expressions of Place Through Different Senses and Lenses

ISBN-10: 192195311X
ISBN-13: 9781921953118
Category: Environmental economics
Pages: 341
Language: English
Published: 2008-01-01
Publisher: National Museum of Australia Press
Author: Frank Vanclay

Description

Exploring place from myriad perspectives, this volume presents evocative encounterssuch as the Great Barrier Reef experienced through touch or Lake Mungo encountered through soundwhile shedding light on the meaning of place for deaf people. Case studies include the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, Inuit hunting grounds in northern Canada, and the songlines of the Anangu people in central Australia. Iconic landscapes, lookouts, buildings, gardens, suburbs, grieving places, and even cars all provide contexts for experiencing and understanding place.

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Making Sense of Place: Exploring Concepts and Expressions of Place...
- 2008
- 331 pages
- Paperback
- National Museum of Australia Press
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- 2014-03-20
- 352 pages
- Paperback
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Making Sense of Place: Children's Understanding of Large-scale Environments
- 1992
- 271 pages
- Paperback
- Harvester Wheatsheaf

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