David Sobel, an education professor at Antioch New England Graduate School, lives outside Keene, New Hampshire, on a wooded hill in a frame house with a wood stove. Although we’d never met, he’d ...

You can find your way to Downtown by looking for our striking skyline of tall, grand buildings, even from miles away over the St. Johns or from the interstate. But once you’re there, on the ground, ...

Is it time to re-imagine our fundamental relationship with cities? People bring cities to life. They interact, work, socialise and travel. Without this, cities are just collections of buildings and ...

Yi-Fu Tuan, who died in Madison, Wis. on Aug. 10, 2022, was known as the most influential academic you never knew. Referred to as the father of humanistic geography, his most influential works dealt ...

When you grow up on the prairie you learn to live with what you have. The Marty people—formerly the Martis, Swiss Lutherans who emigrated to America in 1869—had dirt. Nebraska dirt. They mixed it with ...

Local relevance and a sense of place are among the most important themes in the customer experience today. Everywhere a consumer may go today, from retail to hotels to restaurants, they’ll encounter ...

An increasing number of travelers are finding that one of the best ways to learn about the people and cultures of the destinations they visit is by gaining a better understanding of their local foods ...

"Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means 'making-with'" - Donna Haraway, Philosopher, Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz It is a word ...

For the last few decades, Randy Newman has perhaps been best known for composing beloved children's film scores. He even won an Oscar for Toy Story 3. But his solo albums are unmistakable; take, for ...

In all its multiple meanings the word heritage refers to what we inherit from the past, both in material and immaterial sense. Some authors speak about heritage as a sense of past, meant as a form of ...