Escapism

Yi-Fu Tuan

Johns Hopkins University Press - Baltimore, MD

1998

In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks.

Cosmos and hearth

Yi-Fu Tuan

University of Minnesota Press - Minneapolis

1996

Passing strange and wonderful

Yi-Fu Tuan

Island Press - Washington, D.C.

1993

Conventional wisdom suggests that aesthetic experiences - those moments when the senses come to life - are important only after more basic needs have been met. In this inspiring wealth of provocative ideas, Yi-Fu Tuan demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential parts of life and society.