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THE POWER OF PLACE IN PLACE ATTACHMENT

Geographical Review, 2021
Place attachment is a broad and burgeoning field of scholarship that, while maturing in theory, method, and application, would benefit greatly from more explicit contributions by geographers.
Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
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Place, Sense of Place, and Presence

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2006
Recreating real places—as distinct from virtual spaces or environments—using virtual reality technology raises a series of significant challenges. Fortunately there is a large body of existing research into the experience of place which might reasonably contribute to our understanding of the task. This paper reviews key aspects of the place literature,
Phil Turner, Susan Turner
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Placing the place, and placing oneself within it

Dementia, 2010
Disorientation as experienced by persons with progressive dementia diseases involves both existential and social dimensions. Based on video observations from a small residential care unit and exploring social interaction on a micro-level, this case study focuses on how a woman with vascular dementia actively tries to make sense of an everyday lunch ...
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In Place of Geometry: The Materiality of Place

The Sociological Review, 1997
About the book: This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labour of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labour.
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Permuting in Place

SIAM Journal on Computing, 1995
This paper addresses the fundamental problem of permuting the elements of an array of $n$ elements according to some given permutation. Our goal is to perform the permutation quickly using only a polylogarithmic number of bits of extra storage. The main result is an algorithm whose worst case running time is $O(n \log n)$ and that uses $O(\log n ...
Faith E. Fich, J. Ian Munro, Patricio V. Poblete   +2 more
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A Place Not a Place

2006
Museums and libraries inspire us to cross the limits of routine thought, into experiences of reflection and possibility. Each of the essays in A Place Not a Place examines the ways these and other cultural institutions influence us and proposes ways to strengthen their role as advocates for critical thinking and inquiry.
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Places for Children – Children’s Places

Childhood, 2004
In their everyday lives, children largely stay within and relate to three settings – their homes, schools and recreational institutions. These environments have been created by adults and designated by them as ‘places for children’. A more differentiated picture of children’s spatial culture emerges when children discuss and take photographs of ...
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Places, Natural Places, and the Power of Place

2002
Abstract Motion is the most important type of change. Everything is somewhere, in some sense of ‘somewhere’. The most evident type of change of place is replacement: when one thing replaces another. All motion in nature is a case of replacement or displacement.
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Place and Non-place: A Phenomenological Perspective

2017
The distinction between place and non-place has occupied a critical role in both the philosophy of place and human geography for the last 20 years. In a distinction that stems from Marc Augé but is traceable to Edward Relph, “place” is thought as being relationally constructed, laden with meaning, and shaped by a broader history; home being emblematic ...
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