Canadian geographer (born 1944)
Edward "Ted" Relph is a Canadian geographer, best known for the book "Place and Placelessness".
Career.
Relph grew up in Wales in the Wye Valley and studied at the Joint School of Geography at the University of London and at the University of Toronto. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Toronto, where he served from 1991 to 1999 as Chair of the Division of Social Sciences at the Scarborough campus. From 1999 to 2005 Relph was Associate Principal responsible for the expansion and redevelopment of that campus, and served again as Chair of Social Sciences from 2008 to 2010.
Relph now lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Relph has written many academic articles and book chapters that investigate the phenomenological and experiential foundations of geography, and others that elaborate sense of place and the ways experiences of place are currently being transformed. "Place and Placelessness" was reassessed and updated at a conference organized by Rob Freestone and Edgar Liu of the University of New South Wales that resulted in the publication of "Place and Placelessness Revisited" (edited by Freestone and Liu) in 2016.
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