Places of the heart : the psychogeography of everyday life
著者
書誌事項
Places of the heart : the psychogeography of everyday life
Bellevue Literary Press, 2015
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Library of Science Book Club selection
Discover magazine "What to Read" selection
"A really great book." IRA FLATOW, Science Friday
"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.
目次
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nature in Space
Chapter 2. Places of Affection
Chapter 3. Places of Lust
Chapter 4. Boring Places
Chapter 5. Places of Anxiety
Chapter 6. Places of Awe
Chapter 7. Space and Technology I: The World in a Machine
Chapter 8. Space and Technology II: The Machine in the World
Conclusions: Coming Home Again
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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