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To establish a theoretical foundation for regional geography by synthesizing time-geography and structuration theory to conceptualize place as an ongoing historical process.

March 1, 1984Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming Places

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To establish a theoretical foundation for regional geography by synthesizing time-geography and structuration theory to conceptualize place as an ongoing historical process.
Integrated conceptual models of time-geography with Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration.
Analyzed the recursive interactions among landscape transformation, daily individual trajectories, and institutional power relations.
Formulated an analytical framework linking biography formation and social reproduction to identify empirical foci.
Demonstrates that place functions as an ongoing process where cultural reproduction, biography formation, and landscape alteration continually transform one another.
Establishes that time-space practices and power relations intersect through historically contingent mechanisms rather than universal geographic laws.
Identifies three primary empirical foci for future research centered on language, knowledge distribution, and structural social reproduction.

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Theoretical analysis reveals place as a continuously evolving process driven by social reproduction, indicating that regional development depends entirely on historical context.

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Allan Pred (1984) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dbd56d7d378569a98362e5 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1984.tb01453.x

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Implication

Theoretical analysis reveals place as a continuously evolving process driven by social reproduction, indicating that regional development depends entirely on historical context.

Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming Places

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Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming Places

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