Place Identity
Place-based studies provide a key avenue to exploring local environments, enabling us to refine the scope of our analyses beyond the merely generalizable or the extractable. “Local” does not need to be constrained to a particular municipality or political boundary. Rather, it indicates a commitment to approaching place as something constructed through encounters, something exercisable and experiential.
Place-based studies provide a key avenue to exploring local environments, enabling us to refine the scope of our analyses beyond the merely generalizable or the extractable. “Local” does not need to be constrained to a particular municipality or political boundary. Rather, it indicates a commitment to approaching place as something constructed through encounters, something exercisable and experiential.
Our course place-based projects, activities, and partnerships extend the classroom into the neighborhood, inviting engaged learning and a deepened understanding of class members' positions as stakeholders in the environments we share, use and inhabit with other members of our communities.
Our course place-based projects, activities, and partnerships extend the classroom into the neighborhood, inviting engaged learning and a deepened understanding of class members' positions as stakeholders in the environments we share, use and inhabit with other members of our communities.