ABSTRACT

We live in a world of cultural places. You and I, and that person across from you in the library/café/bedroom (delete as appropriate) are in the cultural world. We live in it, we survive it (hopefully), and we contribute to it, every day and night. The purpose of this book is to help us get a handle on why our world is like it is, what our role in it might be, and how we can sustain or change it. To this end, this book offers a culturally geographical approach to place. It exists to give us insights, feelings and understandings of our place in the world.