This has already been a key factor in development and lack of development of work in this area. We believe the first detailed empirical examination of the distribution of crime across microgeographic places is Shaw's identification of ...
Around the 1940s, pioneers including Kurt Lewin, Egon Brunswik, and Roger Barker pointed out that people act differently within different social and physical settings. They argued that we cannot gain a full understanding of human ...
"--Nancy L. Paxton, Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions, previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies, begins with the transforming premise that "place matters.
The book brings together eighteen top scholars in criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding across different themes.
The central thesis of Place Matters is that economic segregation between rich and poor and the growing sprawl of American cities and suburbs are not solely the result of individual...
When we fail to acknowledge that God is at work already through unlikely vessels in unlikely places, ... In this way, youth are kept from positions of influence and power, limiting their ability to be effective agents of change.
How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problems—poverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic pollution, education, energy consumption, and housing, among others? That's the...
That’s the basic question addressed by the new edition of this award-winning book.
... issues like leave no trace, which is actually stated in the Rilke poem, so there is an ethical insight which wants to ... every direction what you see is nature. A place that the Indigenous peoples have travelled through with meandering ...
This book isn't for someone looking to fill pews or increase numbers in their ministries. Place matters is for people who want to see kingdom growth through authentic and intentional relationship between the community and church.
Although the ocean provides living space for about 97 percent of life on Earth, less than 5 percent of the ocean below the surface has actually been seen, let alone...