…up alone in small room heated by a stove where I was free to talk with myself about my own thoughts.” His life then immediately took a different turn, and…

…these graphs imply. (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised) Where immigration has not compensated for a falling population, for instance Japan, the evidence of population decline is already visible in abandoned houses and depopulated…

…stabilize at about 10.9 billion in 2100 as birth and death rates come more or less into balance and the global demographic transition is completed. Two other population projections offer…

…2008 “Poetry and Place: some personal reflections” Geography, Vol 93 _Part 3 2008 accessed at http://www.owensheers.co.uk/pdf/geography.pdf Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place accessed at http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/poetryofplace.html Wordsworth, William, 1798 “Lines…

…New York •Gray, Martin The Power of Place: sacred Sites and the Miraculous accessed 2017 https://sacredsites.com/martin_gray/publications/the_power_of_place_sacred_sites_and_the_presence_of_the_miraculous.html •High Museum of Art in Atlanta 2017 Cross-Country: The Power of Place in American…

…is limited to a few comments in a couple of pages devoted to familiarity and attachment. For many others who have written about place and placemaking, home is apparently not…

…This number grew slowly to about 20 million by1990.  In 1993 UNHCR added asylum seekers and internally displaced people (those uprooted within their own country) for a total of 24.2…

…not least because our connections with it are constantly reinforced by elections, passports, national sports teams, anthems, flags and patriotic feelings. However, for all its emotional connotations the word ‘country’…

…ways of ascribing power of place and responsibility to the community and its individuals. The importance of community identity is also demonstrated in a permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian National…