IMPORTANCE OF PLACE

An exploration of why PLACE is so vital to human well being and how to create PLACE in a time when sprawl and rampant commercialism are removing the texture and vitality from America.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Centering Down

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"In belonging to a landscape, one feels a rightness, an at-homeness, a knitting of self and world. This condition of clarity and focus...

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Building BRIGHT BOX

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It has always been my strong belief that artists are at the center of any vibrant town or city. As a way of demonstrating this belief and he...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Avoiding a Paved-Over Soul

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"Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no ...

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Poetry Captures Essence of Place

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Poetry is one of the best ways I know to capture the essence of Place. In this wonderful poem by George Ella Lyons, ...

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Place as Part of Prosperous Life

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"In a culture best identified by its uncompromising commitment to individual rights, enlightened self-interest, and the icon of the sel...

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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Sticking It Out Rather than Fleeing

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"One of the key problems in American society now . . . is people's lack of commitment to any given place -- which . . . is totally ...

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

A Place Is Formed by Slow Accrual

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"A place is not a place until people have been born in it, have grown up in it, lived in it, known it, died in it -- have both experien...

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