Yi-Fu Tuan, who died in August 2022, was considered the father of humanistic geography. His scholarship on our sense of space and place can tell us a great deal about the challenges we face today.
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Re-imagining cities after COVID-19 is both a practical and philosophical task. People’s perceptions of places are changing. It is a time for planners and policymakers to plan with, not for, people.
A great novel transports you to a time and a place. Here are five of them.
Public spaces have become more, not less, important to our experience of cities in the digital era. These technologies can be used to confound and enlarge our experiences of and connections to place.
The secret of creating attractive, liveable places sounds deceptively simple: connect people to places, people to transport and people to people.
Smart cities are usually optimised like a business for speed and efficiency. Placemaking can slow down cities to improve health and wellbeing and promote more democratic engagement of citizens.
Big ideas and big dollars have been invested in making ‘memorable’ places. Paradoxically, as similar solutions are adapted in diverse settings worldwide, this can lead to an uneasy new placelessness.
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS | Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Engaged Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Reader in Literature, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor and Fellow of the Curtin Academy, Curtin University
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Teaching Faculty, Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
