ABSTRACT
The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments in which people live, work, and play. These readings highlight the ways in which space and place are produced through large- and small-scale social, political, and economic practices, and offer new ways to think about how people engage the environment in multiple and diverse ways.
Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, geography, sociology and many other areas, this book brings together important but, till now, widely dispersed writings across many inter-related disciplines. Introductions from the editors precede each section; introducing the texts, demonstrating their significance, and outlining the key issues surrounding the topic. A companion website, PeoplePlaceSpace.org, extends the work even further by providing an on-going series of additional reading lists that cover issues ranging from food security to foreclosure, psychiatric spaces to the environments of predator animals.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section 1|38 pages
Diverse Conceptions between People, Place, and Space
chapter 1|5 pages
Constructing Differences in Public Spaces
part Section 2|32 pages
Human Perception and Environmental Experience
part Section 3|34 pages
Place and Identity
chapter 14|5 pages
The Idea of Chinatown
chapter 17|5 pages
Migration, Material Culture and Tragedy
part Section 4|40 pages
Power, Subjectivity, and Space
chapter 19|6 pages
Desire and the Prosthetics of Supervision
chapter 21|5 pages
The Social Becomes the Spatial, the Spatial Becomes the Social
part Section 5|36 pages
Meanings of Home
chapter 26|5 pages
You Got to Remember You Live in Public Housing
part Section 6|36 pages
“Public” and “Private”
chapter 34|5 pages
People Who Live in Glass Houses
part Section 7|36 pages
The Urban Experience
part Section 8|30 pages
Landscape: Nature and Culture
chapter 44|5 pages
This Land is Ours Now
part Section 9|37 pages
The Social Production of Space and Time
chapter 49|6 pages
A Time for Space and a Space for Time
part Section 10|34 pages
Shifting Perspectives Optics for Revealing Change and Reworking Space
chapter 55|6 pages
Rethinking Environmental Racism
chapter 58|5 pages
On the Grounds of Globalization
part Section 11|36 pages
The Spatial Imagination
chapter 62|5 pages
Drawing the Coral Heads
part Section 12|30 pages
Democratic Prospects and Possibilities