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Tony Hiss, The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking At and Dealing With Our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside (Knopf 1990; Vintage 1991) Hiss, a conservationist, New York University visiting scholar, and former New Yorker staff writer, uses this text to encourage connectedness between social, environmental and environmental concerns. He argues that cities can promote economic prosperity without completely damaging the environment. He argues that over-development and urban sprawl can damage lives as much as they damage cities and countryside. In short, the places where time is spent affect the people and who they become. The New Yorker writer looks at the "design" (whether intentional or natural) of a variety of physical spaces — from the corner of a skyscraper to the endless sweep of the Great Plains — and explains why some places give us the creeps while others liberate our senses. His explanation of, say, the grand ballet of rush hour at Grand Central Station, engages the layperson while instructing urban planners and developers. Hiss's book is often compared with James Howard Kunstler's and Winnifred Gallagher's. MORE: Vintage publicity page Amazon Amazon |
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