Explorations in place attachment

Exploring the unique contribution that geographers make to the concept of place attachment - and related ideas of place identity and sense of place - this text presents six types of places to which people become attached and provides a global range of empirical case studies to illustrate the theoretical foundations.

The book reveals that the types of places to which people bond are not discrete.

Rather, a holistic approach, one that seeks to understand the interactive and reinforcing qualities between people and places, is most effective in advancing our understanding of place attachment.