What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual.Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values. Topophilia examines the search for environment in the city, suburb, countryside, and wilderness from a dialectical perspective, distinguishes different types of environmental experience, and describes their character.

Topophilia: a study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values

Politics & Social Sciences

Tuan, Yi-Fu

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

A Historical Geography of China

The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man's presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The building of roads, bridges, dams, and factories, and the consolidation of farm holdings alter the Chinese landscape and these alterations seem all the more conspicuous because they introduce features that are not distinctively Chinese. In contrast, traditional forms and architectural relics escape our attention because they are so identified with the Chinese scene that they appear to be almost outgrowths of nature. Describing the natural order of human beings in the context of the Chinese earth and civilization, A Historical Geography of China narrates the evolution of the Chinese landscape from prehistoric times to the present. Tuan views landscape as a visible expression of man's efforts to gain a living and achieve a measure of stability in the constant flux of nature. The book ranges the period of time from Peking man to the epoch of Mao Tse-tung. It moves through the ancient and modern dynasties, the warlords and conquests, earthquakes, devastating floods, climatic reversals, and staggering civil wars to the impact of Western civilization and industrialization. The emphasis throughout is on the effect of a changing environment on succeeding cultures. This classic study attempts to analyze and describe traditional Chinese settlement patterns and architecture. The result is a clear and succinct examination of the development of the Chinese landscape over thousands of years. It describes the ways the Communist regime worked to alter the face of the nation. This work will quickly prove to be crucial reading for all who are interested in this pivotal nation. It goes far beyond the usual political spectrum, into the physical and social roots of Chinese history.

History

Asia

Routledge

What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual. Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values. Topophilia examines the search for environment in the city, suburb, countryside, and wilderness from a dialectical perspective, distinguishes different types of environmental experience, and describes their character.

Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values

Business & Money

Economics

Columbia University Press

Examines the range of experience, looks at cultural models of the good life, and discusses the meaning of life

The Good Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

The University of Wisconsin Press

“[Tuan] explores answers to an old and unanswerable question: how should we live? . . . The Good Life is a little anthology of good feeling, touchstones of joy . . . These pleasures make the book a pleasure, not of conviction or belief, but of conversation’s meandering exploration.”—New York Times Book Review “Tuan, after all, is one of the few geographers who can be read for pleasure, and by the public as well as by the professional. But read not merely for pleasure, nor yet to mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Rather, consider Tuan’s challenge to identify your concept of the good life, and then try to construct that life.”—Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

University of Wisconsin Press

The title Morality and Imagination needs classification, as moral philosophy, history of ideas, literary criticism, or even current affairs. Yes, the book has a bearing on all these fields. it draws ideas and examples from them, but it is in fact written by a geographer, which may seem strange until we remember what the discipline, in the broadest sense, is about how human beings have created homes or worlds out of nature, Geography arrives to describe and explain the visible material changes. Geography is also a humane study committed to interpret the meaning of human attachments and aspirations. I shall attempt in this book to explore the relationship between morality and imagination. Morality calls to mind set rules of behavior. Imagination has an appealing ring because it challenges such rules. This relationship is not completely opositional. One becomes more moral, society becomes more moral, with the help of imagination disciplined by the respect for the real.

Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress

Philosophy

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Can the individual and society be both moral and imaginative? In Western society the moral person tends to be regarded as either simple and naive or narrow and bigoted. In contrast, the imaginative person is looked on as someone not bound by the customs of the group and therefore likely to be fanciful and out of touch with reality.

Morality & Imagination (Impact)

Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America’s most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and environment. This unusually introspective autobiography mixes Yi-Fu Tuan’s reflections on a life filled with recognition, accolades, and affection with what he deems moral failings, his lack of courage—including the courage to be open about his homosexuality.

Arts & Literature

Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals.

In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds. Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and enormously exciting. In a refreshing antidote to skeptical times, he writes of ordinary human courtesies, as simple as busing your dishes after eating, that make society functional and livable. And he writes of extraordinary courage and inventiveness under the weight of adversity and evil. He considers the impact of communal goodness over time, and his sketches of six very different individuals—Confucius, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Keats, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Simone Weil—confirm that there are human lives that can encourage and lead us to our better selves. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association

Human Goodness

Historical

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Topophilia: a study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values

A Historical Geography of China

Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values

The Good Life

The Good Life

Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress

Morality & Imagination (Impact)

Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

Human Goodness