Yi‐fu Tuan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4004440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yi‐fu Tuan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yi‐fu |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuan |
| SIGNATURE | TUAN Y F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1036 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Space and Place
Dominance and Affection
Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes? Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys as their pets? Can we be said to abuse a plant when part of our pleasure lies in twisting its stem into the shape of an animal? This is a provocative book about the psychological impulse to “make pets”—to tame and control inanimate n…
To Pass on a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer
Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics Nature and Culture
Space and spatiality in theory
This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on 'Space and Spatiality in Theory' which was held at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010. In the article, the panel map out some of the challenges for thinking, writing and performing spaces in the 21st century, reflecting upon the emergence of new ways of theorizing space and spatiality, the relationship between writing, action and s…
Introduction Cosmos Versus Hearth
Coming Home to China
Community, Society, and the Individual
“Community” is a good warm word frequently invoked by citizens, social workers, and politicians. “Society,” by contrast, is more ambivalent, invoking something elitist and exclusive, as in the expression “high society.” The word “individual,” or “individualism,” often connoting selfishness and bracketed with society, is even more suspect in our time. I plead for a restoration of balance and esteem among the three terms as a necessary step toward …
Life as a Field Trip
Coming Home to China
Cultural Geography: Glances Backward and Forward
Perceptual and cultural geography: A commentary
Key Words: cultural geographyequalityidentityLowenthal
Community, Society, and the Individual
You Are Yi-Fu
Society in Time and Space: A Geographical Perspective on Change
1. Human geography and societal change 2. Establishing a taxonomy of societal change 3. Varieties of change: world systems and empires 4. The experience of change: states and regions 5. Sources of inertia and the cultural construction of landscape 6. Organizational sources of inertia 7. The built environment as a source of inertia 8. Conceptualizing inertia: the first step towards a geography of social change 9. The geography of societal change: …
Senses of Place
Senses of Place. Edited by Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso. (Santa Fe: New Mexico: School of American Research Press, 1996. Pp. xi + 293, introduction by Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso, afterword by Clifford Geertz, illustrations, references, index. $40.00 cloth, $18.00 paper) One of the extraordinary shifts in value in the United States, since the 1960s, is from space to place. Space once meant something glamorous. It evoked images of the open ra…
Cosmos And Hearth: A Cosmopolite’s Viewpoint
In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and happily human. Hearth is our house and neighborhood, family and kinfolk, habit and custom. Cosmos, by contrast, is the larger reality - world, civilization, and humankind. Tuan addresses the extraordinary revival of interest in …
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
Island Selves: Human Disconnectedness in a World of Interdependence
Growing awareness of the ecological crisis, together with increasing familiarity with images of the earth taken from outer space, should support the viewpoint that human beings share a small but beautiful planet with other living organisms and that there is something very special about the earth. This opinion is not merely human bias, for it is supported by the objective fact that life of any kind in the universe is extremely rare. Life teems on …
Classics in human geography revisited: Tuan, Y.-F. 1974: Topophilia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Environmental Determinism and the City: A Historical- Cultural Note
The City and Human Speech
The city, with its overwhelming physical presence, makes it easy to forget that it owes its origin, continuing existence, renovation, and personality to human speech-the myriad words of varying degrees of effectiveness uttered by public and semipublic officials, the media, poets, and ordinary citizens. THE extraordinary first verses of the Gospel according to St. John are familiar to many readers: the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with…
The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity
What makes New York City different from Moscow? Are small towns looking more and more alike? What criteria should we use to distinguish onw place from another? Today, geographers and other social scientists are debating not only the answers to these sorts of questions but even whether or not to ask them at all. This ongoing controversy about how (or whether) to study place and its meaning in modern life forms the focus of J. Nicholas Entrikin's p…
Language and the Making of Place: A Narrative-Descriptive Approach
How places are made is at the core of human geography. Overwhelmingly the discipline has emphasized the economic and material forces at work. Neglected is the explicit recognition of the crucial role of language, even though without speech humans cannot even begin to formulate ideas, discuss them, and translate them into action that culminates in a built place. Moreover, words alone, used in an appropriate situation, can have the power to render …
The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984
This book examines in what way our perception of ourselves and our natural environment has changed over the past 200 years. In his history of everyday life, the author draws on a wealth of sources for illustration: 18th-century natural science, modern technology and the new physics, and the arts
Place: An Experiential Perspective
Dominance and Affection
Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes? Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys as their pets? Can we be said to abuse a plant when part of our pleasure lies in twisting its stem into the shape of an animal? This is a provocative book about the psychological impulse to “make pets”—to tame and control inanimate n…
Language and the Making of Place: A Narrative-Descriptive Approach
How places are made is at the core of human geography. Overwhelmingly the discipline has emphasized the economic and material forces at work. Neglected is the explicit recognition of the crucial role of language, even though without speech humans cannot even begin to formulate ideas, discuss them, and translate them into action that culminates in a built place. Moreover, words alone, used in an appropriate situation, can have the power to render …
Humanistic Geography
The focus of humanistic geography is on people and their condition. Humanistic geography is thus not primarily an earth science, yet it is a branch of geography because it reflects upon kinds of evidence that interest other branches of the discipline. The following topics are briefly noted from the humanistic perspective: geographical knowledge, territory and place, crowding and privacy, livelihood and economics, and religion. The basic approach …
Society and Milieu in the French Geographic Tradition
Geography, Phenomenology, And The Study Of Human Nature
Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics Nature and Culture
The Significance of the Artifact
N artifact, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a thing made by art, and the word art connotes skill. An object made with skill, that is, through knowledge and practice could be a poem, ax, or a house. In 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge used the term in the following sentence: lump of sugar or lead lies among other artefacts on the shelf of a collector.' An early usage then is to restrict the meaning of the term to something that a colle…
Images and Mental Maps
“Image'’and “mental map'’appear frequently in the literature of environmental perception, often in an abstract or metaphorical sense. As psychological phenomena mental images do not play any essential role in spatial behavior, nor in abstract thinking. To account for spatial ability we need to postulate “schemata,'’rather than images and mental maps. The mental map, a special kind of image, does have its functions: for example, it is a mnemonic d…
Space and spatiality in theory
This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on 'Space and Spatiality in Theory' which was held at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010. In the article, the panel map out some of the challenges for thinking, writing and performing spaces in the 21st century, reflecting upon the emergence of new ways of theorizing space and spatiality, the relationship between writing, action and s…
Society in Time and Space: A Geographical Perspective on Change
1. Human geography and societal change 2. Establishing a taxonomy of societal change 3. Varieties of change: world systems and empires 4. The experience of change: states and regions 5. Sources of inertia and the cultural construction of landscape 6. Organizational sources of inertia 7. The built environment as a source of inertia 8. Conceptualizing inertia: the first step towards a geography of social change 9. The geography of societal change: …
Discrepancies Between Environmental Attitude and Behaviour: Examples From Europe and China
Life as a Field Trip
Sign and Metaphor
The capacity to feel deeply about the environment and the ability to innovate—these two primary concerns of the humanist geographer—are closely linked. Both presuppose a mind that is able to apprehend and create the affective sign, the metaphor, and the symbol. Environment is vivid because the stimulus a person receives from one source can generate multiple and unexpected sensations, images, and ideas. Synesthesia, metaphorical predication, and s…
Segmented Worlds and Self: Group Life and Individual Consciousness
A View of Geography
What is the intellectual character and core of geography? An answer, from broadly humanist viewpoint, that may satisfy the genuinely curious and literate public lies in the definition of the field as the study of the earth as the home of people. Home is the key, unifying word for all the principal subdivisions of geography, because home, in the large sense, is physical, economic, psycho- logical, and moral; it is the whole physical earth and spec…
Surface Phenomena and Aesthetic Experience
Appreciation for nature or landscape is a principal reason for becoming a geographer. The aesthetic impulse and experience are not, however, confined to any class of individuals. They are a universal human trait, and we find evidence of it in all areas of human life. Satisfaction with life consists largely of taking pleasure in form and expressiveness—in sensory impressions, modified by the mind, at all scales from the smile of a child to the bui…
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Strangers and Strangeness
Culture seeks to create a familiar world, yet an element of strangeness not only persists but also performs an important role in the quickening of culture. Wilderness, with its capacity to surprise, serves culture this way, and so does the stranger who is a potential source of inspiration and renewal. In modern society, the experience of the strange-a kind of grace-may have waned as a result of people's power over nature, but contact with strange…
Perspectives on Environment
The City as a Moral Universe
The city is a moral universe in which helpfulness is extended beyond kinsfolk to strangers. In a modern city, public institutions aspire to provide solace or uplift to all, often with a cool efficiency that is rewarding in its way as is the warmth usually credited to small communities. A close reading of the city scene reveals inconspicuous artifacts of consideration such as telephone booths and wheelchair ramps on sidewalks that symbolize the pr…
The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
Sight and Pictures
TH OW language affects the perceived structure of reality is a basic question in epistemology. At a more popular level, how medium influences message is the theme of many magazine articles and books. In the discipline of geography, much thought has been given to the power and the limitation of mathematical language in describing and explaining the world. And because the issue of mathematics and quantitative methods is often raised in conjunction …
Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Continuity and Discontinuity
LAST year continuity and discontinuity were much on my mind. As has been a habit of mine, I transposed the personal problem with its inevitable ambiguities onto the bright-lit stage of an impersonal question. Why make another move? Why cut the roots that one has established, perhaps for the first time in one's life? One answer is that I have always felt that being in place-being rooted-is an illusion. I have always been haunted by the idea of dep…
Pediments in Southeastern Arizona
Environment” and “World
Discrepancies Between Environmental Attitude and Behaviour: Examples From Europe and China
Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Geography, Phenomenology, And The Study Of Human Nature
China
Environmental Psychology: A Review
Ambiguity in Attitudes Toward Environment
The published literature on attitudes toward environment and space has neglected ambiguity and ambivalence, an aspect of human psychology which we all recognize, but one which is difficult to measure. Three conditions promote ambiguity and ambivalence: 1) complex environments (stimuli); 2) the discrepancy between the mind's search for symmetry and life's bias in favor of movement and of certain psychological values; and 3) the tendency for feelin…
Society and Milieu in the French Geographic Tradition
Environment and Cognition
Images and Mental Maps
“Image'’and “mental map'’appear frequently in the literature of environmental perception, often in an abstract or metaphorical sense. As psychological phenomena mental images do not play any essential role in spatial behavior, nor in abstract thinking. To account for spatial ability we need to postulate “schemata,'’rather than images and mental maps. The mental map, a special kind of image, does have its functions: for example, it is a mnemonic d…
Perspectives on Environment
Place: An Experiential Perspective
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values
Image and Environment: Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior
Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It refers to the attributes and relative locations of people and objects in the environment, and is an essential component in the adaptive process of spatial decision-making-such as fi nding a safe and quick route to and from work, locating potential sites f…
Nature and the American mind: Louis Agassiz and the culture of science
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values
Humanistic Geography
The focus of humanistic geography is on people and their condition. Humanistic geography is thus not primarily an earth science, yet it is a branch of geography because it reflects upon kinds of evidence that interest other branches of the discipline. The following topics are briefly noted from the humanistic perspective: geographical knowledge, territory and place, crowding and privacy, livelihood and economics, and religion. The basic approach …
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values
Landscape Assessment: Values, Perceptions, and Resources
Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Sign and Metaphor
The capacity to feel deeply about the environment and the ability to innovate—these two primary concerns of the humanist geographer—are closely linked. Both presuppose a mind that is able to apprehend and create the affective sign, the metaphor, and the symbol. Environment is vivid because the stimulus a person receives from one source can generate multiple and unexpected sensations, images, and ideas. Synesthesia, metaphorical predication, and s…
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
The City: Its Distance from Nature
W H HAT is essential character of city? Many scholars have tried to answer this question, but they do not often agree. Some are eager to arrive at a statistical measure: at its simplest, a is a settlement of a certain size. Others have in mind an ideal type, approached perhaps by Greek polis or a Renaissance city-state, and urban places are then judged in accordance with how closely they conform to ideal. Thus a settlement may be deemed too small…
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