Architects and urban planners have long discussed how the built
environment in many western cities suffers from a "lack of place." Particularly
in the US, this issue has become heated as people have reconsidered the
exurban malaise weve built as our primary habitat.
Coming to Terms with Place explores the rhetorical grounds for why this is
happening and looks forward to a technique that reconsiders our built
environment in terms of the language we use to describe and inscribe it.
Believing "experience of place" is intrinsically tied into our choice of
language, it follows that a concern for...