Power of Place in Place Attachment

<p>This book provides geographical perspectives on the complex and multifaceted relationship between people and their lived environments. Scholars with varied regional theoretical and topical specialties offer chapters that explore different aspects of a phenomenon so pervasive that no conception of social or political action can afford to ignore it.</p><p>In the process of spatial organization and differentiation people develop emotional attachments to specific places as well as people objects and practices associated with those places. Place attachments thereby shape everyday routines (e.g. routes to work shopping social interactions) major life choices (e.g. places of residence education and vacations) and identities (e.g. civic national and religious). These attachments occur across multiple scales from personal dwellings to community region and homeland. It is our hope that this book reveals synergies between geography and other disciplines engaging with place attachment whilst invigorating research on the topic. <em>The Power of Place in Place Attachment</em> will be of great value to researchers and scholars of geography identity mobility and urban landscape change. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of <i>Geographical Review</i>.</p>