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    The Experience of Place

    A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside

    Author Tony Hiss
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Oct 01, 1991 | 256 Pages | 9780679735946
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    This is a significant new analysis of the impact on our senses of our everyday surroundings: the subtle and pervasive ways in which, from childhood and throughout our lives, we experience place, and how the experience affects us for good or ill. Hiss shows how society can continue to grow without destroying the places that have nourished it for generations.
    © Michael Lionstar
    TONY HISS is the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning The Experience of Place. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years, was a visiting scholar at New York University for twenty-five years, and has lectured around the world. He lives in New York with his wife, young-adult writer Lois Metzger. View titles by Tony Hiss
    "A significant new book...has awesome implications for the future of real-estate development, land-use planning, architecture and health...Tony Hiss illuminates the real nitty-gritty meaning of the dawning environmental era." -- Boston Globe

    Why do some places -- the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper -- affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.

    "Tony Hiss...describes subtle but practical ways to improve mediocre places and transform even some unpleasant ones. Hiss's book itself is like a splendid place-experience: it draws one in, surprises and charms, and enhances the landscapes of the mind." -- Jane Jacobs

    "To read [The Experience of Place]...is to come away convinced not only that things can be put right, but that the job is well underway."

    -- Newsweek

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    This is a significant new analysis of the impact on our senses of our everyday surroundings: the subtle and pervasive ways in which, from childhood and throughout our lives, we experience place, and how the experience affects us for good or ill. Hiss shows how society can continue to grow without destroying the places that have nourished it for generations.

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    © Michael Lionstar
    TONY HISS is the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning The Experience of Place. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years, was a visiting scholar at New York University for twenty-five years, and has lectured around the world. He lives in New York with his wife, young-adult writer Lois Metzger. View titles by Tony Hiss

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    "A significant new book...has awesome implications for the future of real-estate development, land-use planning, architecture and health...Tony Hiss illuminates the real nitty-gritty meaning of the dawning environmental era." -- Boston Globe

    Why do some places -- the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper -- affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.

    "Tony Hiss...describes subtle but practical ways to improve mediocre places and transform even some unpleasant ones. Hiss's book itself is like a splendid place-experience: it draws one in, surprises and charms, and enhances the landscapes of the mind." -- Jane Jacobs

    "To read [The Experience of Place]...is to come away convinced not only that things can be put right, but that the job is well underway."

    -- Newsweek

    Additional formats

    • The Experience of Place
      The Experience of Place
      A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
      Tony Hiss
      9780307766281
      Ebook
      Vintage
      Sep 29, 2010
    • The Experience of Place
      The Experience of Place
      A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
      Tony Hiss
      9780307766281
      Ebook
      Vintage
      Sep 29, 2010

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