Spirit of Place/Genius Loci
…company MacMillan-Bloedel] Isis Brook “Can Spirit of Place be a guide to Ethical Building?” 2001 Brooks’s essay is in a book on ethics and the built environment. She begins by…
…company MacMillan-Bloedel] Isis Brook “Can Spirit of Place be a guide to Ethical Building?” 2001 Brooks’s essay is in a book on ethics and the built environment. She begins by…
…community, and a community to create a place.” Here are two images from the PPS website: More generally, urban designers and planners almost everywhere seem have adopted the idea of…
…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,…
…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…
…Society for the encouragement of the Arts) website on Heritage, Identity and Place, and the American National Trust for Historical Preservation website Saving Places. The consequence is that while it…
…2008 “Poetry and Place: some personal reflections” Geography, Vol 93 _Part 3 2008 accessed at http://www.owensheers.co.uk/pdf/geography.pdf Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place accessed at http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/poetryofplace.html Wordsworth, William, 1798 “Lines…
…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…
…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. …
…diseases peculiar to the place, or particular nature of common diseases…” [Section 6]. Hippocratic ideas that health was related to the environmental quality of a place endured through the centuries,…
…they live in. One soon comes back and tells him: “I can’t do this. I don’t know where to start.” Pirsig suggests writing about the main street. Back comes the…