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Research

For more resources in the study of travel and place, see the Research pages on Place Studes (note that some of the bibliographic links are broken—Bobcat changed its system and not all the links have been updated).
 

Topics

Place Readings
Literature & Place: Secondary Sources
Settings in Literature
Nature & Pastoral Places
Town, Suburb, City, Region
World Literature
Literary Places & Maps
American Road Trip
Genres
Themes
Writing New York
Literary Geography
Travel Classics

Research Help

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Resources on Place Studies

Bibliographies
Amazon Booklist: Humanistic Geography
Amazon: Listmania! - Place & Space: Theories, Passions, etc.
Amazon: Listmania! - The Anthropology of Space & Place
ASLE Bibliography
Bibliography on time, space, globalization
Bibliography on “Place” (Tony, UC Berkeley)
Cultural Landscape Bibliography (annotated)
TagFetch Links: Results for "sense of place"
Suggested Readings for Graduate Students
Place in Literature Secondary Sources
Place Studies
Ecotone: Writing About Place
Ecotone: WebResources on Place
Sense of Place Bibliographies (annotated)
Center for American Place Photography Books
Center for American Places - Books
 
Place in Philosophy, History, Anthropology: Suggested Readings
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time - Google Book
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time: John Brinckerhoff Jackson
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn - Google Book
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn: William J. Mitchell
City Sense and City Design- Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch
Closet Space: Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe: Michael Brown
Cosmopolitan Geographies: V. Dharwadker
Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life: William R. Leach
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape - Google Book
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape: John Brinckerhoff Jackson.webstats4u.com
e-topia: Urban Life, Jim--But Not as We Know It - Google Book
e-topia: William J. Mitchell
From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place: Deborah Tall
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape: James Howard Kunstler
Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World: Edward S. Casey
GIS: A Short Introduction - Google Book
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century: James Howard Kunstler
Home: A Short History of an Idea: Witold Rybczynski
In Praise of Shadows: Junichiro Tanizaki
Key Thinkers on Space and Place: Phil J Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, Gill Valentine
Landscape in Sight: Looking at America - Google Book
Landscape in Sight- Looking at America- John Brickerhoff Jackson
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World: Books: Sharon Zukin
Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B. Jackson - Google Book
Landscapes: Selected Writings of J.B. Jackson: John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Language of Landscape: Anne Whiston Spirn
Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space: Jan Gehl
Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society: Lucy R. Lippard
Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World: Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell
Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America: Keller Easterling
Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination: Joan M. Schwartz, James R. Ryan
Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography - Google Book
Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment: E. V. Walter
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980: Wendell Berry
Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps: Edward S. Casey_
Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place - Google Book
Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place: William Vitek, Wes Jackson
Senses of Place: Steven Feld, Keith H. Basso
Society of the Spectacle
Spirit and Place - Google Book
Spirit and Place: Christopher Day
Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World: Scott Russell Sanders
Territory: A Short Introduction - Google Book
The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space: Eric Hirsch, Michael O'Hanlon
The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture: Setha M. Low, Denise Lawrence-Zuaniga
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects: Lewis Mumford
The Experience of Landscape: Jay Appleton
The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside: Tony Hiss
The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History - Google Book
The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History: Edward Casey
The Language of Landscape - Google Book
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History: Dolores Hayden
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces: William H. Whyte
Thinking Space: Mike Crang
Topographics (reaktion books)
Understanding Ordinary Landscapes: Paul Groth, Todd W. Bressi
 
Place in Human-Cultural Geography: Suggested Readings
A Companion to Cultural Geography: Nuala Johnson, James Duncan, Richard Schein
A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments: Christopher Tilley
Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture - Google Book
Doing Cultural Geography: Pamela Shurmer-Smith
Human Geography - Google Book
Place: A Short Introduction - Google Book
Place: A Short Introduction: Tim Cresswell
Postmetropolis - Google Book
Postmetropolis: Studies of Cities and Regions: Edward W. Soja
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory - Google Book
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory: Edward W. Soja
Reading Human Geography- The Poetics and Politics of Inquiry
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience - Google Book
Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies: Paul C. Adams, Steven D. Hoelscher, Karen E. Till
Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies: Steven Hoelscher, et al, ed. (Google Book)
Thinking Space (Critical Geographies): Mike Crang
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values: Yi-Fu Tuan - Google Book
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values: Yi-Fu Tuan

Place in Architecture: Suggested Readings
Amazon: Listmania! - "Architecture 101"
Amazon: Listmania! - "Architecture 20th Century Canonical Texts" .artchive.com
Amazon- Listmania! - "Architecture for everyone"
Amazon: Listmania! - "Design of Cities"
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction: Christopher Alexander
Architecture and Modernity: A Critique: Hilde Heynen
Architecture and the American Dream: Craig Whitaker
Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt: Hassan Fathy
Architecture of the Everyday: Steven Harris, Deborah Berke
Architecture Theory since 1968: K. Michael Hays
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture: Bernard Rudofsky
Architecture: Presence, Language, Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Body, Memory and Architecture - Google Book
Body, Memory, and Architecture: Kent C. Bloomer, Charles W. Moore
Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection: Stephen R. Kellert
Dwelling: Social Life, Buildings, and the Spaces Between Them): Robert Mugerauer, Anthony Alofsin
Chambers for a Memory Palace: Donlyn Lyndon, Charles W. Moore
Crossing the Expendable Landscape: Bettina Drew
Existence, Space & Architecture: Christian Norberg-Schulz
From Bauhaus to Our House: Tom Wolfe
Genius Loci: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Learning from Las Vegas: Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
Pattern Language
Pride of Place: Building the American Dream: Robert A. M. Stern
Rethinking Architecture: Neil Leach
Rethinking Architecture: Neil Leach
The Hieroglyphics of Space: Neil Leach
The Timeless Way of Building: Christopher Alexander
The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion: Ada Louise Huxtable
Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995: Kate Nesbitt, ed.
Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture: Anthony Vidler

Place: Journals
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
ArchitectureWeek
Arts, Literary, and Technical Publications links (terrain.org)
ASLE News
Basilisk
Conscious Choice: Issue on "A Sense of Place"
Cybergeo
Dwell
Environment and Planning: Four E-journals
Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology
Ethics, Place & Environment
First Monday Special Issue #4: Urban Screens
Gender, Place & Culture
Harvard Design Magazine
Health & Place
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Journal of Historical Geography
LA Observed: Los Angeles media, news and sense of place
Place and Globalization
Political Geography
Settings for Collaboration: the Role of Place
Social & Cultural Geography
SwerVeZonE
The Map Room: Scholarly Journals
The Modern Nomad

Place: Articles
A Literature of Place: Barry Lopez
Building Dwelling Thinking: Martin Heidegger
Can the Subaltern Hear?: The Rhetoric of Place and the Place of Rhetoric in Postcolonial Theory
Coming to Place: Bruce Janz Bruce Janz
Fictional locations - Wikipedia
Human geography - Wikipedia
"Humanistic Geography": Yi-Fu Tuan (Blackwell)
Invention, Memory, and Place: Edward Said
Is Place a Journey? Is Place a Journey? Murray Silverstein
Lost in Place? On the Virtues and Vices of Edward Casey's Anti-Modernism: Thomas Brockelman
Making Places: The Phenomenological Importance of the ■ Invent{ing}ory - Paterson
Place - Wikipedia
Place and Placelessness: Fabulous Frustrations: Douglas D. Paterson
Place, An Experiential Perspective: Yi-Fu Tuan (JSTOR)
Selected Articles from Environmental Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter
Sense of place - Wikipedia
Smooth Spaces and Rough-Edged Places
Spaces of Global Capitalism: David Harvey
What is "Sense of Place"? Jennifer E. Cross

Key Thinkers
Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan - Wikipedia
Tuan bio article
A Life of Learning, Yi-Fu Tuan lecture
Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford - Wikipedia
Lewis Mumford: A Bibliography
Wendell Berry
Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky
Wendell Berry - Wikipedia
Wendell Berry links
J. B. Jackson
J. B. Jackson - Wikipedia
The Measure of Wisdom: John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996): Marc Treib (JSTOR)
Giles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze - Wikipedia
Gilles Deleuze [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin - Wikipedia
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel - Wikipedia
Georg Simmel: The Sociology of Space
Georg Simmel: Biography
Christian Norberg-Schulz
Christian Norberg-Schulz
Christian Norberg-Schulz - Wikipedia
Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre - Wikipedia
Lefebvre on the Situationists: An Interview
Henri Lefebvre

Other key thinkers
Key Thinkers on Space and Place (Sage): Table of Contents
Raymond Williams - Wikipedia
Edward Soja - Wikipedia
Carl O. Sauer - Wikipedia
Waldo R. Tobler - Wikipedia
Michael Watts - Wikipedia
David Harvey - Wikipedia
Nigel Thrift - Wikipedia
Judith Butler
Judith Butler - Wikipedia
Mike Davis - Wikipedia
Michel de Certeau - Wikipedia
Pierre Bourdieu - Wikipedia
Michel Foucault - Wikipedia
Edward Said - Wikipedia
Frantz Fanon - Wikipedia
Frantz Fanon: an Introduction
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