Space and Place - Geography

Chapter 23: Space and Place John Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles). in J. Agnew and D. Livingstone (eds.) Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage, 2011 (forthcoming). The question of Space and Place in geographical knowledge is ultimately not just about whether the question of where matters in the way that when does in explaining how and even why something happens. It is also about how it matters. Given that both Space and Place are about the where of things and their relative invocation has usually signaled different understandings of what where means, it is best to examine them together rather than separately.

this perspective, new technologies -- the container, the Internet, the cell phone -- are making places obsolete (but see for a robust empirical counterview Goldenberg and Levy 2009). Yet, previous rounds in the diffusion of technological innovation, even though ... type, the usage is very common with place standing in for the local (and ...

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