…of progress will not continue { e.g. Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/best-decade-in-history/; Johan Norberg Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future; Stephen Pinker Enlightenment Now). My approach…
…where I have lived, in the entry A Place-Related Autobiography and My Publications. If you have suggestions or comments you can contact me at placeness@gmail.com. …
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…that “place and non-place are like opposed polarities – the former is never completely erased and the second never totally completed (p.79).” I understand non-places as specific manifestations of placelessness,…
…in common. Place, in the context of polis, becomes the locus of commonality.” (Place, commonality, Judgment, p 5) Marc Auge (anthropologist) • “If a place can defined as relational, historical…
…an example of a secular, even scientific idea of spirit of place. [Bloedel was for decades a dominant figure in the forestry industry – his name is preserved in the…
…that deals with the diversity, complexity and contingency of ecological systems by searching for broad patterns, or uses empirical data to test theories about general processes. However, the contributors to…
…rated their local area very positively in terms of its quality of life and environment, and higher than the country in terms of political leadership. Perhaps what is of special…
…approaches to placemaking it is, I think (admittedly without having read a substantial sample of recent literature), the community-based design approach to placemaking that has taken off, though the other…
…thing. The future is a place, and the past is a place. (Carillion was a British construction companym working around the globe. Stephen Harper is a former Prime Minister of…