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(2015) Landscapes of leisure, Dordrecht, Springer.

Disturbance and complexity in urban places

the everyday aesthetics of leisure

Sam Elkington

pp. 24-40

Our sense of place keeps getting vaguer …we find ourselves uprooted, adrift in an uncharted, alien terrain …we’ve failed to accept that the old definitions of place no longer apply; place is now as much virtual as it is physical …our notion of place, then, must be reinvented …if we are at last to create a contemporary sense of place …we need to acknowledge the ugly as well as the beautiful, the disturbing as well as the cozy, the virtual as well as the real. It is this totality that today constitutes the “here” (Bartolucci, 1997, pp. 60–61).

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137428530_3

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Elkington, S. (2015)., Disturbance and complexity in urban places: the everyday aesthetics of leisure, in S. Gammon & S. Elkington (eds.), Landscapes of leisure, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 24-40.

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