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A bear eats a teenager, and inherits his memories. An ageing woman writer buys a tower of her own – where she reimagines the crone from Rapunzel. Two inventive new books resonate with our reviewer.
Yi-Fu Tuan, who died in August 2022, was considered the father of humanistic geography. His scholarship on our sense of space and place can tell us a great deal about the challenges we face today.
Walking roots us in new places. It also unlocks memories of those we’ve moved away from.
A smell will often take us back to a particular place and time. But how are place and smell linked in the brain?
A sense of place matters for people and communities. When a suburb is created from scratch, close attention needs to be paid to the cues from the landscape and meanings people attach to the area.
Why our understanding of the relationship between ‘place’ and ‘language’ is crucial for social justice.
How you use the word ‘shithole’ depends on your gender, which paints Trump’s latest misstep as yet another case of toxic masculinity.
Home can be a slippery concept. But psychologists have long understood that it plays a huge role in self-identity and emotional well-being.
Public spaces have become more, not less, important to our experience of cities in the digital era. These technologies can be used to confound and enlarge our experiences of and connections to place.
Melbourne ranks as the World’s Most Liveable City. But does that tell us what people really love? Lovability is a new approach to city metrics.
Big ideas and big dollars have been invested in making ‘memorable’ places. Paradoxically, as similar solutions are adapted in diverse settings worldwide, this can lead to an uneasy new placelessness.
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PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
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Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW
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Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Urban Geography, University of Leeds
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Senior lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Robert Gordon University
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW
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Professor of Neural Computation, University of Hertfordshire
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Teaching Faculty, Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Lecturer in Human Geography, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Management and Organizational Leadership, Drake University