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Place: A Short Introduction by Tim Cresswell, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2004, 153 pp. paper US$24.95 (ISBN 1-4051-06727)
There has been a surge of interest by publishers in space and place in the last few years. Several new books including Textures of Place (2001) by Adams et al., Key Thinkers on Space and Place (2004) by Hubbard et al., Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps by Casey (2002) have all dealt with various facets of place as an organizing concept. Geographers have long claimed the rights to this as one of the fundamental concepts in the discipline. However, despite this claim very few publications attempt to present the debate about the nature of place to a wider audience. The series, Short Introductions to Geography, published by Blackwell attempts to redress this void. According to the editors, the series is meant...
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