“Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications” provides an eloquent
overview of contemporary advancement in place attachment theory, methods and
applications and is a very useful resource for graduate students and senior scholars of ‘sense
of place’ research. One of the main strengths of the book is that it draws together different,
and sometimes conflicting, understandings of place attachment, and also moves beyond
simplistic qualitative vs. quantitative discussions. However, it does not provide a coherent
framework for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical perspectives
and methodological approaches to understanding people-place connections which may
challenge those academics or practitioners new to the place attachment literature. Further,
little guidance is provided in the applications section about the key question of “how does
one manage for place attachment?”