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| ISBN: | 9780203701386
0203701380
9781351330374
1351330373
1351330381
9781351330367
1351330365
9781351330381
9781138573796
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open Access
Kajsa Ellegêard is Professor in Technology and Social Change, Linkèoping University, Sweden.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2018).
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| Summary: | Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps in theunderstanding of change in society, the wider context and ecological consequences of human actions. This book presents its assumptions, concepts and methods, and example applications. The intellectual path of the Swedish geographer Torsten Heagerstrand is a key foundation for this book. His research contributions are shown in the context of the urbanization of Sweden, involvement in the emerging planning sector and empirical studies on Swedish emigration. Migration and innovation diffusion studies paved the way for prioritizing time and space dimensions and recognizing time and space as unity. From these insights time-geography grew. This book includes the ontological grounds andconcepts as well as the specific notation system of time-geography-a visual language for interdisciplinary research and communication. Applications are divided into themes: urban and regional planning; transportation and communication; organization of production and work; everyday life, wellbeing and household division of labor; and ecological sustainability - time-geographic studies on resource use. This book looks at the outlook for this developing branch of research and the future application of time-geography to societal and academic contexts. Its interdisciplinary nature will be appealing to postgraduates and researchers who are interested in human geography, urban and regional planning and sociology.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9781138573796
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| Standard no.: | 10.4324/9780203701386
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