Research on Space & Place: A Sense of Place

Websites

• A Sense of Place
• A Sense of Place – BBC
• A Sense of Place – how does an artist create a sense of place?
• Alice Coles of Bayview – sense of place in rural Virginia
• Art & Design: Spirit and Place. Consensus Design.
• Building a Sense of Place
• Community, Culture and Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place
• Discovering a Sense of Place (Northwest Earth Institute)
• Ecological Restoration and a Sense of Place (Maryland Sea Grant)
• E-Podunk.com – with a sense of place page.
• Making Sense of Place (Tom Woods) – consulting and planning to help “make sense of the places in our lives.”
• Sense of Community Project (Lansing, MI)
• Sense of Place Project (Arizona-Sonoma Desert Museum)
• Sense of Place: The University of Idaho 2002-03 Humanities Seminar.
• Sense of Place
• Sense of Place – Meanings

On-line Bibliographies

• Sense of Place Bibliography
• Sense of Place: A Framework for Exploring American Culture(s). Web-Based Bibliography

Courses and Programs

• Communicating a Sense of Place (Nancy Cheng)
• Discovering a Sense of Place (Northwest Earth Institute)

Journals

Conscious Choice
–A Sense of Place May 1996

Email Discussion Lists

Place & Community: To subscribe: Send an email to PlaceComm-request@earthsystems.org with “subscribe” in the body

People

Woods, Tom

General Bibliography

Barrell, John. The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Baviskar, Amita. “Strong Sense of Self and Place” http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0007/00070220.htm

Billingsly, John. “Different Places, Different Spaces.” http://www.danu.co.uk/ne/85/place.html

Bishop, Peter. “Off Road: Four-Wheel Drive and the Sense of Place.” Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 14 (1996): 257 – 271.

Bricker, K.S. Place and preference: A study of whitewater recreationists on the South Fork
of the American River. Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1998. 342p.

Bricker, K.S., and D.L. Kerstetter. “Level of specialization and place attachment: An exploratory study of whitewater recreationists.” Leisure Science 22 (2000): 233-257.

Briggs, A. “The Sense of Place.” in The Fitness of Man’s Environment, Smithsonian Annual, II. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968.

Burley, David, Pam Jenkins, Joanne Darlington, Brian Azcona, “Loss, Attachment, and Place: A Case Study of Grand Isle, Louisiana.” Michael Benton, Melissa Purdue, and G. Wesley Houp, eds. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 5:3 (Summer 2005) http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/burley.shtml

Cameron, J. “Articulating Australian Senses of Place.” http://sites.uws.edu.au/research/SERG/Articulating_jcameron.htm

Cameron, J. “Sense of Place, Spirit of Place: Dilemmas and Possibilities.” http://sites.uws.edu.au/research/SERG/AGtalkSOP_jcameron.htm

Cameron, J. “Working with Polarities: An Inclusive Approach to Sense of Place and Environmental Advocacy.” http://sites.uws.edu.au/research/SERG/Polarities_jcameron.htm

Champion, Erik. “Cultural Interaction and a Sense of Place in a Digital Environment.” http://www.student.unimelb.edu.au/~erikc/Papers/CAMEA.pdf

Chatwin, Bruce. Songlines. London: Pan, 1988.
Cross, Jennifer. Protecting Our Place: Establishing and Maintaining Place Attachments In the Face of Population Growth and Change. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Davis, 2001.

Cross, Jennifer. “What is Sense of Place?” http://www.western.edu/headwaters/archives/headwaters12_papers/cross_paper.html

de Wit, Cary. “Senses of Place on the High Plains.” Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 5:2: 10-11.

Donaldson, D. P. & Tyner, J. A. “Marketing a ‘sense of place’: Representations of Africa in ecotour Websites.” Geographical Bulletin Gamma Theta Upsilon. 41:2 (1999): 103-112.

Eisenhaur, B.W., R.S. Krannich, and D.J. Blahna. “Attachment to special places on public lands: An analysis of activities, reasons, for attachments, and community connections.” Society and Natural Resources 13 (2000): 421-443.

Eyles, J., Senses of Place. Warrington: Silverbrook Press, 1985.

Falk, William. “Toward a Sense of Place.” http://www.rupri.org/ruralmatters/software/rupri.drft1.pdf

Feld, Steven and Keith H. Basso. Senses of Place. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1996.

Herzfeld, Michael. “Book review: Feld & Basso, Senses of Place.” American Anthropologist 100:1 (1998): 195-243.

Hirsch, Eric. “Review of Senses of Place” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5:4 (Dec 1999): 670ff.

Ferris, William. “A Sense of Place.” http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/1998-01/ferris.html

Flack, W. “American microbreweries and neolocalism: ‘ale-ing’ for a sense of place.” Journal of Cultural Geography 16:2 (1997): 37-53.

Freehafer, Nancy. “Where Can We Find Community?” Conscious Choice May 1996 http://www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc093/wherecommunity.html

Gee, Henry. “Existential Terroir in Northern California” Scientific American 291:3 (September 2004): 118, 120. http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=000859FE-8DBF-111A-BAF583414B7F4945

Hammit, W. E. & Stewart, W. P. “Sense of Place: A Call for Construct Clarity and Management.” Paper presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Society & Resource Management, May 18-23, 1996, State College, PA.

Hannon, B. “Sense of Place: Geographic Discounting by People, Animals and Plants.” Ecological Economics 10:2 (1994): 157-174.

Hashisaki, Kathleen Sono. Experience of Place: Significant Childhood and Adult Environments. Master’s Thesis, University of Washington, 1988.

Hay, R. “A rooted sense of place in cross-cultural perspective. Canadian Geographer 42:3 (1998): 245-266.

Hecox, Walt, Frank Patrick Holmes, Robert David Pilz. “An Economic and Demographic Sense of Place for the Gunnison Headwaters Region.” http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/dept/EC/Faculty/Hecox/ECSenseHeadwtrsPDF.pdf

Hepburn, Ronald.” Knowing (Aesthetically) Where I Am.” http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/resources%20rtf%20files/hepburn.pdf

Howard, Ian. “From the Inside Out: The Farm as Place.” in Light, Andrew & Jonathan Smith, eds. Philosophies of Place: Philosophy and Geography III. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999: 147-167.

Howard, Patrick, “Nurturing Sense of Place Through the Literature of the Bioregion” Michael Benton, Melissa Purdue, and G. Wesley Houp, eds. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 5:3 (Summer 2005) http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/howard.shtml

Hummon, D. “Community Attachment: Local Sentiment and Sense of Place.” in I. Altman & S. Low, eds. Place Attachment. New York: Plenum Press, 1992: 253-278.

Johnstone, Barbara. Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Jorgensen, B. S. & R. C. Stedman. “Measuring Sense of Place: Lakeshore Owners’ Attitudes Toward Their Properties.” http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/ruralsoc/lter/Measuring%20Sense%20of%20Place.PDF

Joseph, Lee, ed. Ireland: towards a sense of place. University College Cork-R.T.E. lectures, Cork University Press, 1985.

Kaltenborn, B.P. “Nature of place attachment: A study among recreation homeowners in southern Norway.” Leisure Sciences 19 (1997): 175-189.

Kaltenborn, B.P. “Recreation homes in natural settings: Factors affecting place attachment.” Norwegian Journal of Geography 51 (1997): 187-198.

Kaltenborn, B.P. “Effects of sense of place on responses to environmental impact: A study among residents in Svalbard in the Norwegian high Arctic.” Applied Geography 18 (1998): 169-189.

Krupat, E. “A Place for Place Identity.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 3(1983): 343-344.

Kula, Michael. “What Have Bagels Got to Do With Midwesternness?” Michael Benton, Melissa Purdue, and G. Wesley Houp, eds. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 5:3 (Summer 2005) http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/kula.shtml

Lamb, David. A Sense of Place: Listening to Americans. Times Books, 1993.

Lappan, Mark. “A Lifeworld on Water: Home and Journey on the Great Lakes.” Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 2:2: 14-15.

Leary, Charles. “What is the Matrix? Cinema, Totality, and Topophilia” http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/32/matrix.html

MacLeod, Chelsea Elizabeth. Sense of place: an interpretive study of selected residents of Strathcona County, Alberta. M. A. Thesis, University of Alberta, 2000.

Massey, Doreen. “Power-Geometry and a Progressive Sense of Place.” in Bird, Jon, Barry Curtis, Tim Putnam, George Robertson & Lisa Tickner, eds. Mapping the Futures. London: Routledge, 1993: 59-69.

Mensch, G. S. & O. Manor. “Social ties, environmental perception, and local attachment.” Environment and Behavior 30:4 (1998): 504-519.

Meyrowitz, Joshua. No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Mazumdar, Sanjoy, Shampa Mazumdar, Faye Docuyanan, Colette Marie McLaughlin. “Creating a Sense of Place: The Vietnamese-Americans and Little Saigon.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 20:4 (Dec 2000): 319-333.

Mueller, Jim. “Sacred Spaces and Safe Places.” Conscious Choice May 1996 http://www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc093/sacredsafe.html

Pascual-de-Sans, Àngels. “Sense of place and migratory histories. Idiotopy and idiotope.” http://www.iussp.org/Brazil2001/s40/S41_02_PascualdeSans.pdf

Perez, Martha Patricia. Reciprocity and a sense of place: A phenomenological map of Haitian space. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

Oakes, Tim. “Ethnic tourism in rural Guizhou; sense of place and the commerce of authenticity.” In Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies, eds. M. Picard, and R. Wood. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997: 35-70. http://spot.colorado.edu/~toakes/authenticity.htm

Riley, Robert B. “Attachment to the Ordinary Landscape.” Altman, Irwin & Setha M. Low, eds. Place Attachment. New York: Plenum Press, 1992: 14ff.

Salvesen, David. “The Making of Place.” http://www.matr.net/article-4108.html

Sandell, K. “Public access and sense of place: outdoor recreation in Sweden 1880-2000/Naturkontakt och allemansratt: Om friluftslivets naturmote och friluftslandskapets tillganglighet i Sverige 1880-2000.” Svensk Geografisk Arsbok 73 (1997): 31-65.

Sandford, R. D. “A Sense of Place: A Local’s Sense of Place In The Canadian Rockies” http://www.digitalbanff.com/sandford/place.html

Seddon, George. Sense of Place. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1972.

Schwab, Jim. “Death and the Power of Place.” Conscious Choice May 1996 http://www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc093/deathplace.html

Shumaker, S. A., & Taylor, R. B. “Toward a clarification of people-place relationships: A model of attachment to place.” In N. R. Feimer & E. S. Geller (Eds.), Environmental psychology: Directions and perspectives. New York: Praeger, 1983.

Shamai, S. “Sense of place: An empirical measurement.” Geoforum 22 (1991): 347-358.

Smith, Jonathan M. “Ramifications of Region and Senses of Place.” in Carville Earle, Kent Matthewson and Martin Kenzer, eds. Concepts in Human Geography. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.

Starrs, P.F. “The importance of places, or, a sense of where you are.” Spectrum: The Journal of State Governments 67:3 (1994): 5-17.

Stedman, R.C. “Sense of Place as an Indicator of Community Sustainability.” The Forestry Chronicle 75:5 (1999):765-770.

Stegner, Wallace. “The Sense of Place” http://www.mtbaker.wednet.edu/tlcf/The%20Sense%20of%20Place.htm and http://www.colorado.edu/Sewall/sense.htm

Steele, Fritz. The Sense of Place. Boston: CBI Publishing Company, Inc., 1981.

Swinchatt, Jonathan & David G. Howell. The Winemaker’s Dance: Exploring Terroir in the Napa Valley. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.

Tall, Deborah. From Where I Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Tall, Deborah. “Dwelling: Making Peace with Space and Place.” Vitek, William & Wes Jackson, eds. Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996: 104-112.

Taylor, R. B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. “Attachment to place: Discriminant validity and impacts of disorder and diversity.” American Journal of Community Psychology 13 (1985): 525-542.

Taylor, R. B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. “Neighborhood naming as an index of attachment to place.” Population and Environment 7 (1984): 101-111.

Tuan, Y. F. “Rootedness versus sense of place.” Landscape 24(1980): 3-8.

Umphrey, Michael. “A Hunger for Reality: Writing an Essay of Place.” http://www.asle.umn.edu/archive/syllabi/umphrey.txt

Vaske, J.J., and K. Korbin. 2001. “Place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior.” Journal of Environmental Education 32:4 (2001): 116-21.

Vorkinn, M., and H. Riese. “Environmental concern in a local context: The significance of place attachment.” Environment and Behavior 33:2 (2001): 249-363.

Warzecha, C.A, and D.W. Lime. “Place attachment in Canyonlands National Park: Visitors’ assessment of setting attributes on the Green and Colorado Rivers. Journal of Park and Recreational Administration 19:1 (2001): 59-78.

Weiss, Glen. “Instant Place.” http://www.arcadejournal.com/Vol16/16-3/16-3place.htm

Wenders, Wim. “A Sense of Place: A Talk at Princeton” http://www.wim-wenders.com/news_reel/2001/0103princeton.htm

Williams, D.R., and S.I. Stewart. “Sense of place: an elusive concept that is finding a home in ecosystem management.” Journal of Forestry 96:5 (1998):18-23.

Williams, Daniel R. & Jerry J. Vaske. “The Measurement of Place Attachment: Validity and Generalizability of A Psychometric Approach.” http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/value/docs/place_attachment_psychometric.pdf

Yan Xu. “Sense of Place and Identity.” http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/la/LA437-F95/reports/yards/main.html