This hugely important and timely work asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. It explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series o
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I am very pleased to have been asked by Rod Gerber to provide a preface to such a book. Not least because of the twenty-four chapters, eight are written by former students or colleagues with whom I ha
International geographers and educators contribute a wide range of papers synthesizing cultural geography with geographical education, and describing how geography curricula can be a potent force for
Geographers and historians of the discipline from Europe and the US describe the origins and development of the field in their own countries, except Russia and Sweden, which are covered by non-natives
Stemming from an interdisciplinary conference held in January of 2001, these 22 papers explore the application of modern tools of landscape visualization to understanding of historic battlefields. Pre
PUMIAO 1. The Subject Matter: Urban Public Places 2. The Location: Asia Pacific Region 3. The Purpose of the'"Book: For the Makers of Public Places 4. The Three Perspectives of the Book: Description,
Presents original research and a multidisciplinary analysis of the spatial aspects of migration. Considers the spatial results of two diametrically opposed policies: planning from above to settle the
The title of the book -- Implicate Relations -- is suggested as a notion which characterizes the nature of social relations in general and the relations between Israelis and Palestinians in particu
The distinction between a migrant and a tourist is not always easily drawn, as some of the contributors argue in this collection of 15 essays, written by members of the International Geographical Unio
