Why place matters : geography, identity, and civic life in modern America

Author(s)

Wilfred M. McClay & Ted V. McAllister, editors

（New Atlantis books）

Encounter Books, 2014

1st American ed

Includes bibliographical references and index

Why place matters / Wilfred M. McClay
GPS and the end of the road / Ari N. Schulman
Place-conscious transportation policy / Gary Toth
"I can't believe you're from L.A.!" / Dana Gioia
Cosmopolitanism and place / Russell Jacoby
Making places : the cosmopolitan temptation / Mark T. Mitchell
Place/space, ethnicity/cosmos : how to be more fully human / Yi-Fu Tuan
The demand side of urbanism / Witold Rybczynski
Metaphysical realism, modernity, and traditional cultures of building / Philip Bess
A plea for beauty : a manifesto for a new urbanism / Roger Scruton
Place and poverty / William A. Schambra
The rise of localist politics / Brian Brown
The new meaning of mobility / Christine Rosen
Making American places : civic engagement rightly understood / Ted V. McAllister
Place as pragmatic policy / Pete Peterson
Local history : a way to place and home / Joseph A. Amato
The space was ours before we were the place's / Wilfred M. McClay