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Yi-Fu Tuan (Chinese: 段義孚; December 5, 1930 – August 10, 2022) was a Chinese-born American geographer and writer. He was one of the key figures in human geography and an important originator of humanistic geography .
Yi-Fu Tuan employed the term for the feeling-link between person and place as part of his development of a humanistic geography. [3] James W. Gibson, in his book A Reenchanted World (2009) also argues that topophilia or "love of place" is a biologically based, close cultural connection to place. Gibson says that such connections mostly have ...
Place and Space: The Perspective of Experience, by Yi-Fu Tuan (1977) Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities] by Lynda H. Schneekloth & Robert G. Shibley (1995) The Great Good Place, by Ray Oldenburg (1989) The Ecology of Place, by Timothy Beatley and Kristy Manning (1997) How to Turn a Place Around, by Project for Public ...
A Place in Space. Counterpoint. ISBN 1-887178-27-9; Soja, Edward W. 1996. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-And-Imagined Places. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1-55786-675-9; Tuan, Yi Fu. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3877-2; Tuan, Yi Fu. 1990.
Place attachment is the emotional bond between person and place, [1] ... Yi-Fu Tuan, a noteworthy human ... They may serve as a gathering space; for example, plazas.
[12] [13] In one of Yi-Fu Tuan's papers, he explains that in his view, geography is the study of Earth as a home for humanity, and thus place and the complex meaning behind the term is central to the discipline of geography. [11]
It is precisely familiarity, Kawaguchi argues, “that lies at the heart of what makes the ‘mundane places’ of the estate ‘beautiful’, exemplifying Yi-Fu Tan’s assertion [10] [page needed] that ‘what begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value’”. [9]
Body cultural studies also contributed to a differentiation between what in everyday language often is confused as 'space' and 'place' whose dialectics were shown by the Chinese-American philosopher Yi-Fu Tuan (see Bale 2004). Space can be described by coordinates and by certain choreographies. Spatial structures can be standardized and ...