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ISBN10: 0807817589, ISBN13: 9780807817582, [publisher: University of North Carolina Press] Hardcover Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
[Reno, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 0807817589, ISBN13: 9780807817582, [publisher: University of North Carolina Press] Hardcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95
[AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 0807817589, ISBN13: 9780807817582, [publisher: Brand: The University of North Carolina Press] Hardcover First Edition Placeways is 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. The book develops Walter's theory of topistics -- a holistic way of grasping a place as the location of shapes, powers, feelings, and meanings. Exploring the common ground of such diverse fields as philosophy, history, urban planning, classics, cultural geography, architecture, sociology, and environmental psychology, Walter provides theoretical resources for readers who want to rescue the human environment from the loss of feeling and meaning.Walter discusses a wide variety of places, from prehistoric caves, the Australian desert, and classical Greece to medieval towns, Renaissance cities, and modern slums. He examines the changing realities of expressive space and reveals the nonrational, symbolic, and intuitive features in our experience of places -- elements taken for granted by archaic peoples but discounted by modern civilization.The current crisis of environmental degredation, according to Walter, is also a crisis of places. For the first time in human history, people are systematically building meaningless places. If we a ...

ISBN10: 0807817589, ISBN13: 9780807817582, [publisher: The University of North Carolina Press] Hardcover A very nice clean and straight copy in like dust-wrapper. 253 pp.
[Portland, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Univ of North Carolina Pr, Date: 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition (Number Line With The One Present). Four Lines Referencing Page Numbers Within The Text. The Text Appears To Be Free Of Marks Or Writing. A Few Indented Lines On The Jacket But No Chips Or Tears. 1988. Univ of North Carolina Pr ISBN 0807817589 9780807817582 [US]

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ISBN10: 0807817589, ISBN13: 9780807817582, [publisher: University of North Carolina Press April 1988] Hardcover
[Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 0807817589, ISBN13: 9780807817582, [publisher: Brand: The University of North Carolina Press] Hardcover First Edition Placeways is 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. The book develops Walter's theory of topistics -- a holistic way of grasping a place as the location of shapes, powers, feelings, and meanings. Exploring the common ground of such diverse fields as philosophy, history, urban planning, classics, cultural geography, architecture, sociology, and environmental psychology, Walter provides theoretical resources for readers who want to rescue the human environment from the loss of feeling and meaning.Walter discusses a wide variety of places, from prehistoric caves, the Australian desert, and classical Greece to medieval towns, Renaissance cities, and modern slums. He examines the changing realities of expressive space and reveals the nonrational, symbolic, and intuitive features in our experience of places -- elements taken for granted by archaic peoples but discounted by modern civilization.The current crisis of environmental degredation, according to Walter, is also a crisis of places. For the first time in human history, people are systematically building meaningless places. If we a ...

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