Tuan, Y., (1990) Topophilia, A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. Nee York, Columbia UniversitPress.

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With out self-understanding we cannot hope for enduring solutions to environmental problems, which are fundamentally human problems. And human problems ...... hinge on the psycholohical pole of motivation.

p.53
Has the female a characteristic way of structuring the world that is different from the male?

In every known culture , male and female are assigned distinctive roles; they are taught in childhood to behave in differing ways, .... Dolls and guns.

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When a girl designs an environment, it is usually that of a house interior, ..... in a girl's scene, people and animals are mostly within such an interior or enclosure, and they are primarily .. in a static position. Why static>

Along with tall structures boys play with the idea of collapse; ruins are exclusively male constructions. Does this include decay?

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A man's belongings are an extension of his personality; to be deprived of them is to diminish, ...his worth as a human being. Capitalism, ...a person in the process of time invests bits of his emotional life in his home, and beyond the home in his neighborhood. ...which in its familiarity protects the human being from the bewilderment of the outside world