Sprawling Places

• List of Places
• About this text
• Encounters with the spirit of the place
  1. The spirit of the local shrine
  2. The spirit of the business shrine
  3. The spirit in the mall
  4. The spirit of the subdivision
  5. The spirit of the big box
• Discussions and rhapsodies
  1. Tourism: a Waltz with Lucy Lippard
  2. Hypertext and suburbia
  3. Places and identities
  4. Wright's Broadacre City
  5. Methodological questions
  6. Questions about themed places
  7. General issues and questions
  8. Our relation to social grammars
  9. Philosophical intentions
  10. Philosophical background
• Outlines of some of the discussion
  1. General outline
  2. Places today outline
  3. Place terms outline
  4. Place theory outline
  5. Place grammar outline
  6. Place making outline
  7. Complexity outline
  8. Commodification outline
  9. Themed places outline
  10. Sprawl outline
  11. New Urbanism outline
  12. Discontinuous places outline
  13. Kant outline
  14. References from the book version
• Conceptual diagrams
  1. Terms for areas and places
  2. Philosophical connections
• Objections and replies
  1. About the necessity of links
  2. About formal systems
  3. About the practical details
  4. About new unities
  5. About deception
  6. About sweeping claims
  7. About place grammar and norms
  8. About systems/places
  9. About Chemainus
  10. About conditions and closures
  11. About distinct place characters
  12. About context and links
  13. About inhabiting the moment
  14. About complexity
  15. About rates of change
  16. About themed places
  17. About suburban sprawl
  18. About landscapes and fields
  19. About mediation
  20. About metaplaces
  21. About everyday effects
• List of references

Authenticity

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New England church in Stow, Maine

Norwegian stave church in Epcot, Disneyworld

A book version of Sprawling Places
is available at Amazon or Powells.

© David Kolb 2007;
last revised October 2010