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Sprawling Places
List of Places
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Encounters with the spirit of the place
The spirit of the local shrine
The spirit of the business shrine
The spirit in the mall
The spirit of the subdivision
The spirit of the big box
Discussions and rhapsodies
Tourism: a Waltz with Lucy Lippard
Hypertext and suburbia
Places and identities
Wright's Broadacre City
Methodological questions
Questions about themed places
General issues and questions
Our relation to social grammars
Philosophical intentions
Philosophical background
Outlines of some of the discussion
General outline
Places today outline
Place terms outline
Place theory outline
Place grammar outline
Place making outline
Complexity outline
Commodification outline
Themed places outline
Sprawl outline
New Urbanism outline
Discontinuous places outline
Kant outline
References from the book version
Conceptual diagrams
Terms for areas and places
Philosophical connections
Objections and replies
About the necessity of links
About formal systems
About the practical details
About new unities
About deception
About sweeping claims
About place grammar and norms
About systems/places
About Chemainus
About conditions and closures
About distinct place characters
About context and links
About inhabiting the moment
About complexity
About rates of change
About themed places
About suburban sprawl
About landscapes and fields
About mediation
About metaplaces
About everyday effects
List of references
index
Restorative complexity
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Internal discontinuities and cross-connections
Complexity cannot be kept away. No amount of immediate intensity can
preclude the development
of cross-time connections that bring
the series
of roles and actions to
interact with itself
.
[Nearby:
Complexity outline --
Music and architecture --
Three theses about complexity today ]