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In the News (Sat 19 Dec 09)

  
  Topophilia and the quality of life
Confirmatory factor analyses revealed four domains of topophilia (ecodiversity, synesthetic tendency, cognitive challenge, and familiarity) and four domains of QOL (physical, psychological, social, and environmental).
Synesthetic tendency was the strongest domain of topophilia, whereas the psychological aspect of QOL was the strongest.
All four domains of topophilia were significantly correlated with the level of restoration experienced by respondents at their current domicile [for cognitive challenge: r = 0.19; p < 0.01; familiarity: r = 0.12; p < 0.05; synesthetic tendency: r = 0.18; p < 0.01; ecodiversity (the highest value): r = 0.28; p < 0.01].
repositories.cdlib.org /postprints/623   (314 words)

  
 FW: [Sbse] Re: feedback on student academic workload
The term topophilia was coined by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan of the University of Wisconsin and is defined as the affective bond with one's environment--a person's mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to a place.
Topophilia is studied here as a latent construct, an abstract psychological concept similar to "attitude" or "intelligence" whose variability can only be observed indirectly through its effect on measurable responses.
That is, people who had the highest topophilia ratings (who, for example, most highly valued flowers or color as important for achieving a restorative effect) tended to have the highest QOL scores.
www.lists.uidaho.edu /pipermail/sbse/2005-March/000691.html   (648 words)

  
 Topophilia : A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual.
Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values.
Topophilia examines the search for environment in the city, suburb, countryside, and wilderness from a dialectical perspective, distinguishes different types of environmental experience, and describes their character.
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 AAG in Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This paper examines the cultural geographic determinant topophilia as one factor in the exodus of this population from the state.
In addition to the Chinese Exclusion Acts, initially enacted in 1882, the cultural determinant topophilia is proposed as a strong factor in the outmigration.
The study examines the effect of topophilia on the migrant mining laborer population.
cost.georgiasouthern.edu /geo/aag.html   (595 words)

  
 topophilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The world view implies that the attitudes and beliefs are structured, however arbitrary, when viewed objectively.
Topophilia: is the affective bond between people and place.
Topophilia is an emotion, the research of which begins in the description of these feelings.
www.geog.umd.edu /homepage/courses/600/week05/group1   (1325 words)

  
 [Sbse] Re: feedback on student academic workload
In this month's issue, Oladele A. Ogunseitan of the University of California, Irvine, asks us to consider the study of topophilia as a source for criteria to help us judge which elements of an environment truly have a restorative effect [ < http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2004/7467/abstract.html > EHP 113: 143-148].
Topophilia is studied here as = a latent construct, an abstract psychological concept similar to andquot;attitudeandquot; or andquot;intelligenceandquot; whose variability can = only be observed indirectly through its effect on measurable responses.
That is, people who had the highest = topophilia ratings (who, for example, most highly valued flowers or color as = important for achieving a restorative effect) tended to have the highest QOL scores.
www.lists.uidaho.edu /pipermail/sbse/2005-March/000695.html   (1055 words)

  
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In this month's issue, Oladele A. Ogunseitan of the University of California, Irvine, asks us to consider the study of topophilia as a source for criteria to help us judge which elements of an environment truly have a restorative effect [ EHP 113: 143-148 ].
Understanding the stress-fighting effects of certain elements of the built environment may shed light on how people's surroundings affect their quality of life.
The environmental features surveyed mapped closely onto four domains of topophilia: ecodiversity (the presence of flowers, water, and other elements of nature), synesthetic tendency (a commingling of colors, smells, and other sensory stimuli), environmental familiarity (which includes spaciousness and privacy), and cognitive challenge (which includes structural complexity and texture).
ehp.niehs.nih.gov /docs/2005/113-2/ss.html   (1791 words)

  
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 Yi-fu Tuan Topophilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 The Chronicle: March 16, 2001: Lost in Place
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values (Prentice-Hall, 1974, reissued in 1990 by Columbia University Press)
From the mid-1960's into the early 1970's, while still known primarily as a geomorphologist, he edged toward announcing a vision for humanistic geography in a few of his many journal papers.
Tuan complained that the geographer "writes as though people were endowed with mind and vision but no other sense with which to apprehend the world," and he proposed that, instead, the discipline should "describe and try to understand what 'being-in-the-world' is truly like."
www.chronicle.com /free/v47/i27/27a01401.htm   (5033 words)

  
 UHV Text Only : President's Office : President's Monthly 2004-2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The warmth of the reception we have received and the many kindnesses shown us are testimony to the genuine hospitality of the people of this region and we are truly grateful for the spirit of community evident here.
In geography we sometimes use the word "topophilia" to describe the affective bond between people and place.
Already we feel a certain topophilia for Victoria and we are proud to call it home.
www.uhv.edu /text/president/updates_Nov1204.htm   (1483 words)

  
 Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. Spring 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The instability of the sign is also combined with the term &#145;topophilia,’; which describes the affective relationships that exist between members of a culture and the spaces they occupy.
Topophilia is also understood as a major component of narrative, thus exploring parallels between conceptions of space and deployment of images.
The manipulations of space articulated by Carrizales are studied as individual interpretations that are read (and lived) ‘allegorically’ by other characters who use that space according to their needs.
www.h-net.org /%7Ecervantes/csa/bcsas98.htm   (1213 words)

  
 TOPOPHILIA & TOPOPHOBIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
What distinguishes human habitat is not the size and complexity of our buildings – many animals, after all make grand as well as intricate ones - but our ability to reflect on what we do and our ambivalence about our affinity to – as well as detachment from - the soil, the terrain we occupy.
Though the words topophilia and topophobia belong to our time, an ambivalence between the love of place and aversion from it has been a recurrent paradox in human history.
Implications of both topophilia and topophobia have been disregarded while we have been overtaken by the speed and the mass of building which seems to go up with animal rather than human energy.
www.fbe.unsw.edu.au /events/topoconference/theme.shtml   (369 words)

  
 The Fuse - Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I looked forward to seeing her paintings before my visit but was not expecting her stunning topophilia.
The topophilia consisted of four small interconnected rooms covered in thin paper that created a magical oasis of soft colored lights and rhythmic sounds.
The topophilia’s walls were made of tightly stretched colored paper that allowed light from the room to bleed in.
www.musicinspokane.com /mac.htm   (975 words)

  
 LandscapeOnline.com :: Article : Professor Studies How People Feel about Their Environment
Oladele Ogunseitan, a social ecology professor at the University of California at Irvine, who is also a microbiologist, has been studying topophilia, topo meaning region or place, and philia “tendency towards.” Topophilia was apparently coined by Yi-Fu Tuan, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin.
His hypothesis was that “individual preferences for specific ecosystem components and restorative environments are significantly associated with quality of life.” He asked 379 people on the UC Irvine campus to rate features in the urban landscape and their sense well-being, measured by the WHO's “Quality of Life” survey.
Ogunseitan identified four categories of topophilia: “ecodiversity” (the presence of nature's elements); “synesthetic tendency” (colors, smells, and other sensory stimuli); “environmental familiarity” (such factors as spaciousness and privacy); and “cognitive challenge” (structural complexity and textures, as in buildings).
www.landscapeonline.com /research/article/5077   (431 words)

  
 Today@UCI: Press Releases:
In a study being published in the February issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, Ogunseitan uses this method to examine topophilia – a person’s love of place – to dissect people’s preferences for specific environmental features.
Ogunseitan says the real significance of this study is the development of a scientific method for measuring the relationship.
The complex exterior of the Seattle Central Library designed by Rem Koolhaas and the Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry are the types of structure that his study participants would not find restorative.
today.uci.edu /news/release_detail.asp?key=1257   (681 words)

  
 Yi-fu Tuan - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But from what?" In his fascinating look at the idea of escape, Tuan suggests that all human culture is really a kind of flight, an evasive mechanism, a means of not facing facts: our shelters give us refuge...
Topophilia : A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values
Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /yi-fu_tuan.htm   (110 words)

  
 FIGC Settore Tecnico Coverciano - Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio
Lo sport è uno degli stimoli maggiori per presentare immagini di topophilia a scala locale, regionale e nazionale.
Con il termine topophilia si intende la dimensione in cui lo sport ha un connotato affettivo con il luogo in cui è praticato o seguito.
Vi sono due differenti forme di sport legate alla topophilia: la prima è rappresentata dallo spazio-legame ovvero l’attaccamento al luogo e la seconda è costituita dalla funzione di luogo-lancio degli sport.
www.settoretecnico.figc.it /newsletterdettaglio.asp?cod=23   (913 words)

  
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 spirit3design: portfolio
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typography >tense >construct >topophilia >bandwidth >nicollet >stitch >hudson
topophilia addresses topographic characteristics of maps and how—by using color and size—information can be read.
www.spirit3design.com /portfolio/type/type_topo.html   (59 words)

  
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 Arts & Culture - Making Her Mark
Her early fascination with human psychology and how a viewer interacts with art is very much in evidence in her new show at the MAC.
"Topophilia — Imbuing/Seasons" is an installation piece consisting of four wood-framed spaces.
Hara designed it so that each room represents a different sort of environment: hot, cold, wet, dry.
www.inlander.com /inlandway/286542183253040.php   (912 words)

  
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Human subjects responded to a questionnaire on topophilia and to the World Health Organization's QOL instrument.
Factor analyses revealed four domains of topophilia (ecodiversity, synesthetic tendency, cognitive challenge, and familiarity) and four domains of QOL (physical, psychological, social, and environmental).
Results provide a new framework for linking environmental quality and human health and for implementing restorative targeted design of built environments.
ehp.niehs.nih.gov /docs/2005/113-2/iti.html   (1815 words)

  
 Place and Identity in an Age of Technologically Regulated Movement
In the late modern period, the simultaneous emergence of nearly instantaneous global communication and environmental problems of global scope raise the possibility for alternative forms of place-based identity.
The planetary evocation of place is most graphic in the "whole earth" photographs taken from outer space, in which manmade political boundaries are rendered virtually invisible, Here the earth is credibly experienced as a distinctive home, yet one that is also vulnerable, isolated and precious.
A striking feature of planetary topophilia is its ability to make a claim to being compatible with the natural science of ecology.
www.ncgia.ucsb.edu /varenius/place/PLACE_Report.html   (15413 words)

  
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