Yi-Fu Tuan's scientific contributions

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... Despite, or perhaps because of, the essential importance of place and place-making ('How places are made is at the core of human geography'; Tuan, 1991), different lenses exist through which place has been viewed. For example, Tuan (1977Tuan ( , 1979 describes place as part of human experience: humans perceive a variety of impressions through their sensory organs, which are reflected in emotions and beliefs, thus enabling us to develop a sense of place. Further descriptions refer, among others, to human movement patterns ('place ballet'; Seamon, 1979;Seamon & Nordin, 1980) and the way we ground experience in places (Malpas, 1999). ...