The Territorial Experience

The Territorial Experience
Author :
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780292772250
ISBN-13 : 0292772254
Rating : 4/5 (254 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Territorial Experience by : E. Gordon Ericksen

Download or read book The Territorial Experience written by E. Gordon Ericksen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s, the Chicago school of sociology developed an ecological orientation toward the study of the city. At the same time, other Chicago scholars developed the social psychological approach that was to be named symbolic interactionism. Over fifty years later, Gordon Ericksen examines the best of these two schools to present a revisionist human ecology. In The Territorial Experience, he gives us a fresh perspective on human ecology by reconstructing the discipline in a way that genuinely reflects the realities of our territorial life. Ericksen's symbolic interactionist approach to the spatial world is based on the appreciation of humans as the creative artists they are, as designers and builders of their environment. Exploring the symbolic meanings attached to space and territory, he challenges the orthodox in human ecology by introducing hypotheses and conceptual tools of analysis which link spatial facts to human motivations and meanings. With people living in a habitat which they have largely shaped for themselves—a world of airports, shopping malls, retirement villages, where human spaces convey human messages—Ericksen demands that we examine what we have done with our environment in order to survive and prosper. This major contribution to human ecology will be of importance to specialists and lay readers in the fields of sociology, social psychology, geography, city and regional planning, urban affairs, and economics. Showing how humankind speaks in and through its physical setting, The Territorial Experience is a bench mark in communications theory.


The Territorial Experience Related Books

The Territorial Experience
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: E. Gordon Ericksen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-03 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

During the 1920s, the Chicago school of sociology developed an ecological orientation toward the study of the city. At the same time, other Chicago scholars dev
The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795–1817
Language: en
Pages: 573
Authors: Robert V. Haynes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-21 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention. Since 1540, when Hernando de Soto of
Territory
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute
Categories: Cities and towns
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Between 2008 and 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanisation taking place ou
The Territorial Future of the City
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Giovanni Maciocco
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-12 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The volume brings together contributions by leading scholars and young academics with experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not neces
The Land Within
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Pedro García Hierro
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: IWGIA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

By describing the fabric of relationships indigenous peoples weave with their environment, The Land Within attempts to define a more precise notion of indigenou