ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, a broadly humanistic set of approaches to thinking about the relationships between people and 'their' places was explored. It was suggested that people develop a deeply felt attachment to places at different scales, with 'home' places being particularly important in their experiences of the world. Simultaneously, it was stressed that experiences of place and landscape are multisensory, embodied and emotional, and that we can perhaps begin to under stand something of these in the ways that people describe place through media such as poetry and painting. Excavating these, we often find stro ng sentiments of topophilia.
