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Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography, and Architecture

Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography, and Architecture

Connell, Ruth
Backhaus, Gary
Murungi, John

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0739103369
ISBN13: 9780739103364
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 20 2002
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
The study of landscape and place has become an increasingly fertile realm of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. In this new book of essays, selected from presentations at the first annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Geography, scholars investigate the experiences and meanings that inscribe urban and suburban landscapes. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi bring philosophy and geography into a dialogue with a host of other disciplines to explore a fundamental dialectic: while our collective and personal activity modifies the landscape, in turn, the landscape modifies human identities, and social and environmental relations. Whether proposing a peripatetic politics, conducting a sociological analysis of building security systems, or critically examining the formation of New York City's municipal parks, each essay sheds distinctive light on this fascinating and engaging aspect of contemporary environmental studies.

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