Place Meaning and the Visually Impaired: The Impact of Sound Parameters on Place Attachment and Identity

This paper outlines some theoretical considerations regarding the concept of place meaning as applied to populations of visually impaired users of mobile location-based applications. The concept of place meaning and its constituent elements, place attachment and place identity, are explored in detail and a research design on place meaning for visually impaired smartphone users is outlined as a first step toward the systematic investigation of the differences in the creation of place attachment and place identity between sighted and visually impaired individuals as a result of auditory stimuli emerging from the urban soundscape

The relationship between place branding and environmental communication: The symbolic management of places through the use of brands

This article aims to demonstrate the way in which global contemporary society manages the meaning of place through the use of brands, which, as we understand it, leads to a coming together of place branding and environmental communication; this occurs primarily through a cognitive, humanistic and rhetorical interpretation of the transformational process that converts geographical space into a brand. Furthermore, the article will outline some of the possibilities for analysing the phenomenological dimension of place branding (human–environment relationships) from the perspective of the multidimensional nature of the subjective experience of places

Un escritor que lucha por no casarse con una fórmula

El jardín del unicornio y otros lugares para hombres solos. Triunfo Arciniegas (ilustrador: Julio César Gómez). Editorial Panamericana, Bogotá, 2002, 143 págs