《恋地情结》作为段义孚的成名作，主要讲述人与周围环境的关系。随着城市的建设和发展，人们感受到了环境的巨大变化。但是，这些关注，更多是从环保和生态的角度，而对于人在情感上与环境的关联，很少触及。段义孚的这本书恰恰就是从这一点上来论述。环境不仅作为人们的资源攫取地和需要加以适应的物理场所，环境也是人在实践中建构的人文场所，人将他的价值、情感置于其中，人文丰富了大地景观的生态状况，地方景观丰富了人的情感体验。本书用一些明确的概念来理解和解释人与地方的这种情感关联。

本书阐述了场所与空间的概念及其相互关系，这是一个完全不同的文化的、经验的观点。作者认为，一个地方依赖于空间从一个地方向另外一个地方的移动，而空间依赖于地方从一个地方向另一个地方移动。因此，他们是相互依赖的。然后作者加入了时间，描述了地方、空间和时间这三者是如何的相互作用的。书中阐明了无论我们源自哪里,我们的所处的文化是如何的深入地影响着我们对于地方、空间和时间的理解。

Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth—our home—habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments—oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps—to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." Yi-Fu Tuan has established a global reputation for deepening the field of geography by examining its moral, universal, philosophical, and poetic potentials and implications. In his twenty-second book, Romantic Geography, he continues to engage the wide-ranging ideas that have made him one of the most influential geographers of our time. In this elegant meditation, he considers the human tendency—stronger in some cultures than in others—to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature. Romantic Geography is thus a paean to the human spirit, which can lift us to the heights but also plunge us into the abyss.

In the 25 years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He suggests that place is security and space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Whether he is considering sacred versus “biased” space, mythical space and place, time in experiential space, or cultural attachments to space, Tuan’s analysis is thoughtful and insightful. Until retiring in 1998, Yi-Fu Tuan was professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is ranked among the country’s most distinguished cultural geographers and has earned numerous honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bracken Award for landscape architecture, and an award for meritorious contribution to geography from the Association of American Geographers. He was recently named the Lauréat d’Honneur 2000 of the International Geographical Union. He is the author of many essays and books, including Escapism (1998) and Cosmos and Hearth (Minnesota, 1999).