{"product_id":"life-takes-place-phenomenology-lifeworlds-and-place-making-9780815380719","title":"Life Takes Place Phenomenology Lifeworlds and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife Takes Place\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennettâs 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 \u003ci\u003einteraction, identity, release, realization, intensification\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ecreation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeamon’s incorporation of J. G. Bennett’s \u003c\/em\u003eprogressive approximation \u003cem\u003einto a phenomenology of place provides a provocative framework for a more comprehensive approach to complex aspects of place. Seamon deftly argues for the need to focus our attention on the relationality between parts and wholes brought to light through a combination of these two diverse philosophies. The work is an important contribution to place studies furthering our understanding of the significance of place in our lives while encouraging us to see place anew. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanet Donohoe, University of West Georgia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Seamon – place theorist par excellence – presents us with a rich, in-depth, insightful exploration into the complex dimensions of the experience of place as \"synergistic relationality.\" If you read only one book on the phenomenology of place, let this be the one.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIngrid Leman Stefanovic, Dean, Faculty of Environment, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimon Fraser University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Seamon’s \u003c\/em\u003eLife Takes Place \u003cem\u003erespects and celebrates the complexity of place experience, while providing a sophisticated conceptual framework as well as pragmatic tools for ‘reading’ places. It flows out of the tradition of synergistic, holistic, qualitative models for approaching place, and appreciates the wholeness of place -- while also suggesting ways to conceptualize difference, relationality, and change processes in synergistic place studies. \u003c\/em\u003eLife Takes Place \u003cem\u003egives architects, geographers, urban planners, psychologists, and ecologist pragmatic tools for understanding places as lived engagements and processes whereby human beings both shape \u003c\/em\u003eand are shaped by\u003cem\u003e the world of places in which they find themselves. In his unique interdisciplinary style Seamon has given us an engaging, thought-provoking, practical, and inspiring book that will speak to readers from many disciplines.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva-Maria Simms, Ph.D., Adrian van Kaam Professor, Psychology Department, Duquesne University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeamon’s years of substantial engagement with phenomenology of place bear fruit in this books’s clear presentation of difficult theory. Additionally, his numerically based pedagogy of relationality and deft use of telling cases bring to manageable order the bewildering variety of place qualities and processes, as well as the meanings of the diverse experiences they engender.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Mugerauer, Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Built Environments, University of Washington\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeamon's book is an important addition to the libraries of people who are versed in space syntax and who, more importantly, care deeply about how places are shaped and lived in.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Tables and Figures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Life Takes Place: An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Preliminaries for a Phenomenology of Place: Principles, Concepts, and Method\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Understanding Place Holistically: Analytic vs. Synergistic Relationality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Explicating Wholeness: Belonging, Progressive Approximation, and Systematics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. The Monad of Place\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. The Dyad of Place\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Understanding the Triad: Relationships, Resolutions, and Processes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Three Place Impulses and Six Place Triads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. The Triad of Place Interaction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. The Triad of Place Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. The Triad of Place Release\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. The Triad of Place Realization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. The Triad of Place Intensification\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. The Triad of Place Creation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Integrating the Six Place Processes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Life Takes Place: Criticisms, Concerns, and the Future of Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018472587607,"sku":"9780815380719","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815380719.jpg?v=1750777027","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-takes-place-phenomenology-lifeworlds-and-place-making-9780815380719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}