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Place Attachment

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Irwin Altman

    1. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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  2. Setha M. Low

    1. Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Human Behavior and Environment (HUBE, volume 12)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Place Attachment

    • Setha M. Low, Irwin Altman
    Pages 1-12

  3. Attachment to the Ordinary Landscape

    • Robert B. Riley
    Pages 13-35

  4. Attachment to Possessions

    • Russell W. Belk
    Pages 37-62

  5. Childhood Place Attachments

    • Louise Chawla
    Pages 63-86

  6. Environmental Memories

    • Clare Cooper Marcus
    Pages 87-112

  7. Home as a Workplace in the Lives of Women

    • Sherry Boland Ahrentzen
    Pages 113-138

  8. Attachment to Place and the Representation of the Life Course by the Elderly

    • Robert I. Rubinstein, Patricia A. Parmelee
    Pages 139-163

  9. Symbolic Ties That Bind

    • Setha M. Low
    Pages 165-185

  10. Spaces That Teach

    • Deborah Pellow
    Pages 187-210

  11. Transcendence of Place

    • Denise L. Lawrence
    Pages 211-230

  12. Thresholds to an Alternate Realm

    • Mary Hufford
    Pages 231-252

  13. Community Attachment

    • David M. Hummon
    Pages 253-278

  14. Disruptions in Place Attachment

    • Barbara B. Brown, Douglas D. Perkins
    Pages 279-304

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 305-314
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About this book

In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

    Irwin Altman

  • Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Setha M. Low

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Place Attachment

  • Editors: Irwin Altman, Setha M. Low

  • Series Title: Human Behavior and Environment

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8753-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-8755-8Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8753-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 336

  • Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology

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