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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$22.00 US
On sale Oct 01, 1991 | 256 Pages | 978-0-679-73594-6
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

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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