Publisher's Synopsis
This textbook has been written by a team of international experts in the field and aims to provide the student with vital new theories in the study of cultural geography.;Written to appeal to undergraduate students, "Inventing Places" offers the reader an approach to studying the well developed cultures of the west by applying methods previously used only in the study of the third world.;It examines the role of women in the shaping of the urban landscape and covers the evolution of the environmentalist and nature conservationists.
