Yi Fu Tuan is a name that is familiar to many geographers.
He sadly passed away in August 2022.
His work on place, and the idea of topophilia was popular and also encouraged people to think about place in a different way.
“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.”
― Yi-Fu Tuan, Landscapes of Fear
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