Thoroughly revised & updated this text introduces students of human geography & allied disciplines to the fundamental concept of place combining discussion about everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it A thoroughly revised & updated edition of this highly successful short introduction to place Features a new chapter on the use of place in non-geographical arenas such as in ecological theory art theory & practice philosophy & social theory Combines discussion about everyday uses of the term place with the more complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it Uses familiar stories drawn from the news popular culture & everyday life as a way to explain abstract ideas & debates Traces the development of the concept from the 1950s through its subsequent appropriation by cultural geographers & the linking of place to politics