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标题：Mapping American Culture. - book reviews
作者：Sharon Johnson
期刊名称：Whole Earth: access to tools, ideas, and practices
印刷版ISSN：1097-5268
出版年度：1994
卷号：Winter 1994
出版社：Point Foundation

Mapping American Culture. - book reviews

Sharon Johnson

Space and place are distinct but closely related: one begets the other and both are needed for a full life. "Place is security, space is freedom; we are attached to one and long for the other," geographer Yi-Fu Tuan has written. "What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with values," he argues. "Enclosed and humanized space is place." For artist Alan Gussow, "A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by human feelings," while for novelist Eudora Welty, place is the "gathering spot of all that has been felt," a still point in the flux of life, where the spirit is enshrined and the imagination is focused."