Edward Relph

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Edward Charles "Ted" Relph (born 1944 in Wales)[1] is a Canadian geographer, best known for Place and Placelessness. He is a professor at the University of Toronto, teaching undergraduate classes, and classes for the Masters of Planning Science program.

Relph's objective is to recover what he believes to be a dual sense of 'marvelling' and 'concern' (or 'care') embedded in everyday geographical experiences, as a prelude to reshaping an academic geography in which 'abstract technical thinking has begun to submerge geographical experience either by making (it) seem relatively trivial or simply by obscuring it with generalizations. More specifically, what Relph does is to examine four basic geographical concepts -those of region, landscape, space and place- that are not just concepts for academic geography, but are also 'the contexts and subjects of geographical experience, and in a differt aspect again... are parts of being-in-the-world (Paul Cloke, Clavis Philo, David Sadler, ('Approaching Human Geography",Paul Clapman, Londen)

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