…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…the force of the emotions it represents: “I thought we needed, in English, [a word for] the idea of a place-based emotion that captures the feeling of distress when an…
…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…
…of this website. My research approach to place was and still is a simple one. It is a combination of reading what I can about place regardless of disciplinary affiliations,…