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Escapism

Paperback • 2000 • English

Escapism

By Yi-fu Tuan

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About the book

In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously. Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland-all are among the most recent monuments in our efforts to escape the cons...Show more

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ISBN

9780801865404

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Escapism

Format

Paperback

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