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This is the ninth and final instalment of my ‘sense of place’ series. Today, I reflect on the themes that I have covered during the series. I wonder: what would…
Left: Google Maps identifies the house from ‘Kath and Kim’ as a cultural landmark. Searching Google Maps for Indigenous Cultural Landmarks yields almost nothing. Right: Efforts to protect sacred birthing…
(#7 in the ‘Sense of Place’ series) In this week’s article, I share elements of my own story of the relationships I have formed with some of the places and…
Prof Trevor Hancock's Healthy City Model (1993): A vanguard of Liveability[1] In this article I discuss some of the impacts of the WHO Healthy Cities program, launched in 1986, in…
Taken on my arrival at Disneyland, September 2003. One enters Disneyland via ‘Mainstreet USA’ – an homage to neighbourhood streetscapes lost to placeless urban sprawl. Mainstreet USA is built at…
Image credits: (Above). ‘Care for Country’ by Maggie-Jean Douglas - a Gubbi Gubbi artist from South East Queensland. The 2021 National NAIDOC Poster incorporating the Aboriginal Flag (licensed by WAM…
In this article, I will discuss how ’sense of place’ is actually a broad and encompassing term that consists of four interconnected dimensions: (a) place attachment, (b) place dependence, (c)…
The COVID pandemic has brought into sharp relief humans’ complicated relationships with place and space. ‘Lockdown’ has separated many of us from the places and homes where we normally freely…
The term ‘sense of place’ is so widely used in popular discourse that it has become something of a trope. It is used to sell everything from package holidays to…
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