The following recent publications suggest a growing interest in the study of "place" from a variety of humanistic perspectives. John Barrell, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 1730-1840 (Cambridge at the University Press, 1972); Brian Goodey, "The sense of place in British planning: some considerations," Man-Environment Systems, vol. 4, no. 4, 1974, pp. 195-202; Linda Graber, Wilderness as Sacred Space (Association of American Geographers, Monograph series no. 8, Washington, D.C., 1976); Alan Gussow, A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land (New York: Seabury, 1974);