ABSTRACT
Within the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of homelessness and isolation.
This work, first published in 1979, adopts a phenomenological perspective illustrating that this malaise may have partial roots in the deepening rupture between people and place. Whereas the problems of terrestrial space may have been overcome technologically and economically, it has been less successful regarding people. Experience indicates that people become bound to locality, and the quality of their life is thus reduced if these bonds are disrupted or broken in any way. The relationship between community and place is investigated, as is the opportunity for improving the environment, both from a human and an ecological perspective.
This book will be of interest to students of human geography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |17 pages
Seeing Anew
chapter |5 pages
A Geography of Everyday Life
chapter |10 pages
Phenomenology and the Environmental Experience Groups
part |35 pages
Movement in the Geographical World
chapter |5 pages
Cognitive and Behaviourist Theories of Movement
chapter |8 pages
Habit and the Notion of Body-Subject
chapter |8 pages
Merleau-Ponty and Learning for Body-Subject
chapter |6 pages
Body and Place Choreographies
chapter |6 pages
Implications for Environmental Theory and Design
part |30 pages
Rest in the Geographical World
chapter |4 pages
At-Homeness and Territoriality
chapter |5 pages
Centres, Places for Things and the Notion of Feeling-Subject
chapter |8 pages
The Home and At-Homeness
chapter |11 pages
Implications for Environmental Theory, Education and Design
part |32 pages
Encounter with the Geographical World
chapter |4 pages
Perception and a Continuum Of Awareness
chapter |5 pages
Fluctuation, Obliviousness and Watching
chapter |7 pages
Noticing and Heightened Contact
chapter |6 pages
Basic Contact, Encounter and At-Homeness
chapter |8 pages
Implications for Environmental Io Theory and Education
part |34 pages
Searching Out a Whole