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Making sense of 'place': Reflections on pluralism and positionality in place research

Drawing on critical pluralism and positionality, this essay offers a four-part framework for making sense of the manifold ways place has been studied and applied to landscape planning and management. The first element highlights how diverse intellectual origins behind place research have inhibited a transdisciplinary understanding of place as an object of study in...

Author(s):

Daniel R. Williams

Year:

2014

Keywords:

place-making, place meaning, critical pluralism, planning practice, landscape governance, cosmopolitan place

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Landscape and Urban Planning. 131: 74-82.

The creation and maintenance of sense of place in a tourism-dependent community

This paper examines the theoretical intersection of place attachment and community through a study of the place attachment of residents who live, work, and play in a tourism-dependent community. Using a qualitative photo-elicitation technique best described as "resident employed photography," we asked 25 residents of Seward, Alaska, to share images and...

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Benoni L. Amsden; Richard C. Stedman; Linda E. Kruger

Year:

2011

Keywords:

community, photographic methods, place attachment, tourism dependence

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Leisure Sciences. 33(1): 32-51

Strip malls, city trees, and community values

Strip malls (also known as mini-malls) are a common urban land use, historically promoted by U.S. zoning practices that concentrate retail and commercial development in a narrow band along arterials and major streets. More recently, communities are redeveloping mini-mall zones, expanding landscape plantings as biotechnology, and attempting to create a sense of place....

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Kathleen L. Wolf

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Contingent valuation, mall, preference, public response, retail, roadside, survey, visual quality.

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Arboriculture and Urban Forestry. 35(1): 33-40.

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