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The Resource Places of the heart : the psychogeography of everyday life, Colin Ellard

Places of the heart : the psychogeography of everyday life, Colin Ellard

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Summary
  • "A Selection of the Library of Science, History, and Military Book Clubs "One of the finest science writers I've ever read."--Los Angeles Times "Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom." -New York Times Book Review "[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating." -NPR "Colin Ellard is one of the world's foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities-and ourselves." -CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we're awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature-places we escape to and can't escape from-have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating. Colin Ellard is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, he lives in Kitchener, Ontario."--
  • "Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we're awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature--places we escape to and can't escape from--have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
255 pages
Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The nature in space
  • 2. Places of affection
  • 3. Places of lust
  • 4. Boring places
  • 5. Places of anxiety
  • 6. Places of awe
  • 7. Space and technology : the world in the machine
  • 8. Space and technology : the macine in the world
  • Conclusions : coming home again
Isbn
9781942658009
Instance
Label
Places of the heart : the psychogeography of everyday life
Title
Places of the heart
Title remainder
the psychogeography of everyday life
Statement of responsibility
Colin Ellard
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • "A Selection of the Library of Science, History, and Military Book Clubs "One of the finest science writers I've ever read."--Los Angeles Times "Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom." -New York Times Book Review "[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating." -NPR "Colin Ellard is one of the world's foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities-and ourselves." -CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we're awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature-places we escape to and can't escape from-have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating. Colin Ellard is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, he lives in Kitchener, Ontario."--
  • "Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we're awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature--places we escape to and can't escape from--have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating"--
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1958-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Ellard, Colin
Dewey number
304.2
Index
index present
LC call number
HM654
LC item number
.E45 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Space
  • Human geography
  • Environment
  • Psychology
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
  • Raum
  • Anthropogeografie
  • Neurowissenschaften
  • Kulturgeografi
Label
Places of the heart : the psychogeography of everyday life, Colin Ellard
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- 1. The nature in space -- 2. Places of affection -- 3. Places of lust -- 4. Boring places -- 5. Places of anxiety -- 6. Places of awe -- 7. Space and technology : the world in the machine -- 8. Space and technology : the macine in the world -- Conclusions : coming home again
Control code
ocn903424784
Dimensions
23 cm
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
255 pages
Isbn
9781942658009
Lccn
2015023418
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025570450
Specific material designation
  • remote
  • regular print
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781942658009
  • (OCoLC)903424784
Label
Places of the heart : the psychogeography of everyday life, Colin Ellard
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- 1. The nature in space -- 2. Places of affection -- 3. Places of lust -- 4. Boring places -- 5. Places of anxiety -- 6. Places of awe -- 7. Space and technology : the world in the machine -- 8. Space and technology : the macine in the world -- Conclusions : coming home again
Control code
ocn903424784
Dimensions
23 cm
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
255 pages
Isbn
9781942658009
Lccn
2015023418
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025570450
Specific material designation
  • remote
  • regular print
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781942658009
  • (OCoLC)903424784

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