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Title: The Experience of Place : A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities andCountryside by Tony Hiss ISBN: 0-679-73594-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: What a great title for a book...
Comment: Too bad the title was wasted on this one. Don't bother reading this unless you want to read long, drawn-out exposition of efforts at preserving various farms and wilderness in the New England states and buildings and parks in NYC. The research was light, no real thesis put forth - some garble about "simultaneous perception" that's forgotten after the first chapters hardly counts. It's not that the writing is offensive, but it is a bit boring and provincial, and lacking in unity and focus.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspired me to pursue a career in planning and city admin.
Comment: It was Mr. Hiss' book that first inspired me to pursue a career as a city planner/city administrator. I recently reread the book to refresh much of the enthusiasm for carefully crafting a sense of place that, too often, can be dulled by the grind of bureaucracy. The New York Times is only partially right in suggesting that this book is essential reading for city planners, developers and city administrators". It also should be reread, upon occassion, to provide continued inspiration for better planning and development. The book can be effectively supplemented by Howard Kunsteler's Geography of Nowhere and Home From Nowhere.
Rating: 4
Summary: A refreshing look at real-estate development
Comment: I was required to read this book as a part of a real-estate development/project management class, and was surprised and refreshed by the author's insights into public space and evironments. The book attempts to get at fundamental values of creating "a sense of place," and although decidedly a bit frou-frou and subjective at times, it offers tangible alternative avenues to our notions of land-use planning and real-estate development. Extremely easy-reading, and insightful.
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Title: The Power of Place by Winifred Gallagher ISBN: 0060976020 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan, Steven Hoelscher ISBN: 0816638772 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 08 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson ISBN: 0300063970 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.51 |
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Title: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard ISBN: 0807064734 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Language of Landscape by Anne Whiston Spirn ISBN: 0300082940 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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