tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post4547505228804050851..comments2009-05-16T11:24:00.957-04:00Maja Djikichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16522265542660035768noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-13409937064582217022009-05-16T11:24:00.000-04:002009-05-16T11:24:00.000-04:00Prospect and refuge theory (as it did, indeed, become) inhabits a rather interesting place in geography -- one that reveals, I think, some telling tensions that wrinkle the relationship between the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Let me turn this idea over for awhile, and work it into the substance of the next installment on psychogeography on the 27th.Kirsten Valentine Cadieuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04781128427942978109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-26180327352774572572009-05-15T06:10:00.000-04:002009-05-15T06:10:00.000-04:00Thank you Valentine, for these thoughts about how people respond to geography. I remember reading that P.D. James said that her novels always started with a place, and the place set in progress the ideas that led to a story. I very much like the notion that places offer affordances. Do geographers draw on Jay Appleton's (1975) book <I>The experience of landscape</I> which is not about landscape as such but about paintings of it. He proposes that places are aesthetically appealing when they display such features as refuge and prospect?Keith Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16419339550879570935noreply@blogger.com