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Life Takes Place - Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making (Hardcover)
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Life Takes Place - Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making (Hardcover)
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Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern
world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the
question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of
specific places and place experiences to understand place more
broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he
calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial
fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect
things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout
his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are
multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their
dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett's method of
progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience
in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions.
Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines
their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes
that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization,
intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from
architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an
understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a
more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels
vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant
contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place
making studies."
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