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Literature of Place
Melanie Louise Simo
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Description for Literature of Place
Hardback. While the exploration of outer space and cyberspace may now seem limitless, some planners and designers are reconsidering the importance of place. This book furthers this movement by retrieving some common threads of attachment to place in works by John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Henry James, Robert Frost, Wallace Stegner, Jane Jacobs, and others. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
In a world that is increasingly reliant on science, technology, and virtual relationships, our reciprocal and intimate connection to place has often been overlooked. This concern is now at the forefront of debate among environmental planners and designers, who are asking: What is distinctive and memorable about a certain place? Who lives there - or once did? What are the impacts of metropolitan growth, sprawl, and the loss of family farms? In ""Literature of Place"", Melanie Simo looks beyond crowded malls and boarded-up storefronts on Main Street to our collective memory, finding answers to these questions in stories, novels, memoirs, ... Read more
In a world that is increasingly reliant on science, technology, and virtual relationships, our reciprocal and intimate connection to place has often been overlooked. This concern is now at the forefront of debate among environmental planners and designers, who are asking: What is distinctive and memorable about a certain place? Who lives there - or once did? What are the impacts of metropolitan growth, sprawl, and the loss of family farms? In ""Literature of Place"", Melanie Simo looks beyond crowded malls and boarded-up storefronts on Main Street to our collective memory, finding answers to these questions in stories, novels, memoirs, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925004
SKU
V9780813925004
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About Melanie Louise Simo
Melanie Simo is the author, with Peter Walker, of Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape, among other books.
Reviews for Literature of Place
This is an ingenious project, and well executed to boot. Melanie Simo has given us, in some sense, a baseline for this idea of place - the idea that may turn out to be of crucial importance in the difficult century we're now embarked on. - Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home: A Long Walk across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: ... Read more