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A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time."Since it is the breadth and universality of his argument that concerns Yi-Fu Tuan, experience…

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Yi-Fu Tuan’s brilliance is in illustrating how variable and contextual our understanding of space and place really are, and how our experience of the physical world is based on our mental and bodily perceptions of the places and spaces we encounter.

When we are cheering on our favorite team, we want a crowd of like-minded fans (sitting in empty stands is a depressing thought), but heading to the car, that same crowd becomes intolerable. The small town with 2,000 inhabitants can feel stifling, but the big city, with two million people (which demographers would say would be empirically more “crowded”),…

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