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Personal Geo-topologies

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Some common routines of a fictitious “topological day” in an urban setting of the twenty-first century demonstrate the emerging power of topology in human geography. Consequently, it is suggested that there are “personal topologies”, which will become increasingly more significant, alongside with the “global topology” of the global geo-cyber-space. Personal topologies entail preferential connectivities and relate to subjective geographies, mobilities in the geo-space and the cyber-space as well as with the big networks of global topologies.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

“L’amour c’est l’espace et le temps rendus sensibles au cœur”

(Marcel Proust, 1871–1922, “La Prisonnière”)

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Papadimitriou, F. (2023). Personal Geo-topologies. In: Geo-Topology. GeoJournal Library, vol 133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48185-7_14

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