Geography of Time, Place, Movement and Networks, Volume 4

Mapping Time Transport Journeys

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book provides insight into the importance of place and place settings in personal journeys. Besides this, the book also addresses the networks connecting rural and urban places, transcontinental highways and railroads, rural-urban migration and other innovative journeys such as gas station road maps and body maps.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-24
Mått:155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:533 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:223
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031580369

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. His research interests cover a broad array of topics within urban geography, economic geography, social geography, information/communications geography, geotechnology and cyberspace, time-space intersections, law, political, and environmental geography, geographical future, as well as disciplinary history.

Innehållsförteckning

1. West Africa’s Ebola Time Journey, Xenophobia and the Power of Community-Based Systems in Senegal (Karen S. Barton and Jessica Salo).- 2. Along the Trans-Siberian Pipeline: A Social Geography by Camera (Roman Adrian Cybriwsky).- 3. Shifting U.S. and North Carolina Demography during COVID-19 (James H. Johnson, Jr., Allan M. Parnell, and Jeanne Milliken Bonds).- 4. A Nation for a Continent vs Rail Networks for its States: The Staggered Creation of Australia’s Transcontinental Transport Links (Roy Jones and Joseph Christensen).- 5. Walking Time–Space: A Photographic Journey along the Thames River in London (David J. Keeling).- 6. Beyond the Cultural Bubble: “Wow” Journeys to Iconic Destinations (David J. Keeling and Thomas L. Bell).- 7. Challenges in the Walking Journeys of an African Pedestrian: A Case Study from Makhanda, South Africa (Sinenhlanhla Memela, Philippa Margaret Irvine, Huresha Padayachee, Lisa Kondile, and Rosy Moekena).- 8. The Journey to the Interoceanic Highway in Peru: The Perils in Histories of Infrastructure (Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado).- 9. Gas Station Road Maps: Passports to Imagination and Adventure (Phillip D. Phillips).- 10. We Carry Many Stories in Our Bodies: Journeys in (Re)Forming and (Re)Narrating Cross-Cultural Experience and Spiritual Growth in the UK and Peru (Iain L. Ross).- 11. Time Journeys on the Remote Amazonian Frontier: The Javari Basin (Brazil and Peru) (Javier Ruedas).