David Seamon
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| Born | April 14, 1948 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Years active | 1972–present |
| Title | Professor Emeritus of Environment-Behavior & Place Studies |
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| Education | BA (1970), PhD (1977) |
| Alma mater | Clark University |
| Thesis | Movement, Rest, and Encounter: A Phenomenology of Everyday Environmental Experience (1977) |
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| Sub-discipline | architectural and environmental phenomenology |
| Institutions | Kansas State University |
| Main interests | Phenomenologies of place and placemaking |
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David Seamon (born 14 April 1948) is an American geographer, phenomenologist, author and academic. Seamon in known for his work on the theory of architectural phenomenology, environmental phenomenology, and environmental design as placemaking. He is the editor of the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology journal, published since 1990. Seamon is the author of several books in behavioral geography and place phenomenology including Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds and Place Making (2018, Routledge) and A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest and Encounter. Seamon has been Professor of Environment-Behavior and Place Studies at Kansas State University since 1993.