Placeways : a theory of the human environment
Offers a philosophical and historical interpretation of the experience and meaning of place. Searching for a way of knowing and living in the world that does not fragment experience or exploit the environment, E.V. Walter explores the way people in other cultures and other times have experienced place.
Print Book, English, ©1988
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1988
xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807817582, 9780807842003, 0807817589, 0807842001
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Introduction. The places of experience
Road to topistics
Topomorphic revolutions
Sick places
Sacred places
Ungrounded self
The energies of places
Grasping the sense of place
Expressive space
Ominous space
Riddles and problems
The ground of platonism
Conclusion