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Social geography --- Sociology of environment --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- City children --- City planning --- Geographical perception --- Hulpwetenschappen --- Congresses. --- sociologie --- sociologie. --- Sociologie. --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Children in cities --- Urban children --- Children --- City dwellers --- Urban teenagers --- Urban youth --- Congresses

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In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and misconceived, the authors trace the history of such misconceptions. Their up-to-the-minute study reflects both on the global scale and its relation to the specific continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa-actually part of one contiguous landmass.The Myth of Continents sheds new light on how our metageographical assumptions grew out of cultural concepts: how the first continental divisions developed from classical times; how the Urals became the division between the so-called continents of Europe and Asia; how countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan recently shifted macroregions in the general consciousness.This extremely readable and thought-provoking analysis also explores the ways that new economic regions, the end of the cold war, and the proliferation of communication technologies change our understanding of the world. It stimulates thinking about the role of large-scale spatial constructs as driving forces behind particular worldviews and encourages everyone to take a more thoughtful, geographically informed approach to the task of describing and interpreting the human diversity of the planet.

Geographical perception. --- Geopolitics. --- World politics --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Geography --- Perception géographique --- Géographie --- History --- Histoire --- Geodesy. Cartography --- History as a science --- Geografie --- Sociale en economische geografie --- Algemeen. --- Geographical perception --- academic. --- afghanistan. --- analysis. --- asia. --- cold war. --- continental divide. --- continents. --- criticism. --- critique. --- economic. --- economy. --- europe. --- first world. --- geographical. --- geography. --- global. --- government. --- historian. --- historical. --- international issues. --- international. --- law and order. --- macroregions. --- misconception. --- myth. --- pakistan. --- philosophy. --- regional. --- scholarly. --- third world. --- world issues.

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How do human beings negotiate the spaces in which they live, work, and play? How are firms and institutions, and their spatial behaviors, being affected by processes of economic and societal change? What decisions do they make about their natural and built environment, and how are these decisions acted out? Updating and expanding concepts of decision making and choice behavior on different geographic scales, this major revision of the authors' acclaimed Analytical Behavioral Geography presents theoretical foundations, extensive case studies, and empirical evidence of human behavior in a comprehensive range of physical, social, and economic settings. Generously illustrated with maps, diagrams, and tables, the volume also covers issues of gender, discusses traditionally excluded groups such as the physically and mentally challenged, and addresses the pressing needs of our growing elderly population.

Human geography. --- Spatial behavior. --- Decision making. --- Geographical perception. --- 911 --- 159.92 --- 159.9 --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Geografie --- Omgevingspsychologie --- Psychologie --- Decision making --- Economische geografie --- Transport. --- Geographical perception --- Human geography --- Spatial behavior --- Carte mentale --- Comportement spatial --- Geographie comportementale --- Geographie de la perception