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March 27, 2017 | Aesthetics

By Elizabeth Straughan,Harriet Hawkins

Geographical Aesthetics areas the phrases 'aesthetics' and 'geography' below serious query jointly, responding either to the expanding calls from inside geography to increase a 'geographical aesthetics', and a resurgence of interdisciplinary curiosity in conceptual and empirical questions round geoaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, in addition to the spatialities of the cultured. regardless of taking over an identifiable function in the geographical mind's eye and sensibilities for hundreds of years, and having what's arguably a key position within the making of the trendy self-discipline, aesthetics is still a comparatively under-theorized box inside geography. throughout 15 chapters Geographical Aesthetics brings jointly well timed commentaries by way of foreign, interdisciplinary students to remodel ancient relatives among geography and aesthetics, and reassess the way it is we'd comprehend aesthetics. In renewing aesthetics as a domain of research, but additionally an analytic item by which we will take into consideration worldly encounters, Geographical Aesthetics offers a transforming of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic.

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