…sense of a place open to and opening to other worlds. The Openness of Places A pragmatic sense of place requires thinking beyond the confines of a particular place, beyond…

…and official plans that attempt to implement it. Placemaking diagrams from the Project for Public Spaces website The idea of placemaking covers a range of possibilities as wide as place…

This second post updating my earlier speculations about the future of places in the 21st century summarizes the five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways [SSPs] that inform the Sixth Assessment Report of…

…is really just a synopsis of interpretations about the role that place plays in literature that I come across and think are interesting. It elaborates remarks I made in previous…

…experience it when we travel to attractive places, whether resorts or historic towns, it stands behind the attempts of architects and planners to create aesthetically pleasant designs and compatible settings…

…Fried, author of a seminal study in the 1960s of the uprooting of a poor community in Boston, has written that forced displacement can be among the most severe psycho-social…

…Press) [where I discuss the erratic origins of the name of Toronto] – S. Taylor (ed) 1998 The Uses of Place Names (Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press) [Corstorphine and Gwaun Henllan]…

…that provide a means of communicating shared place identities and in the myriad ways in which we participate in communities . This interpretation prevails in environmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, some…

…indication that damage to place cells could be a cause. And as I have learned more I have come increasingly to think that the research of neuroscientists provides valuable insights…