The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity
By Professor Nicholas J. Entrikin.
Description
What makes New York City different from Moscow? Are small towns looking more and more alike? What criteria should we use to distinguish onw place from another? Today, geographers and other social scientists are debating not only the answers to these sorts of questions but even whether or not to ask them at all. This ongoing controversy about how (or whether) to study place and its meaning in modern life forms the focus of J. Nicholas Entrikin's pioneering work. Those who point to a decline in the study of place in geography, Entrikin explains, cite three main causes: the apparent homog...
ISBN(s)
080184083X, 9780801840838
