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Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America (New Atlantis Books) Hardcover – February 25, 2014

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  • Series: New Atlantis Books
  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Encounter Books (February 25, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594037167
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594037160
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsPlace Really Does Matter
By John on June 27, 2014
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In any collection of essays, the most important objective is choosing the right topic that will open up and stimulate further discussion. The contributors on their part must represent diverse views, yet propose solutions that point in the same general direction.

In this respect, editors Wilfred M. McClay and Ted V. McAllister achieved success in their excellent book, Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America. It is a collection that challenges the reader to enter into discussion, yet also points toward organic solutions outside the box of modern academia.

The subject matter of this book is very important: the notion of place in an increasingly global and digitally disembodied world. It strikes on a profound chord since the sensation of rootlessness and anomie weighs heavily upon postmodern society. Place really doesn't seem to matter.

Modern technology and gadgetry have supposedly annihilated time and space. People no longer need places to call their own since it no longer matters where they live. Everyone is connected to their devices and supposedly "liberated" from the past constraints of traditions, family ties...and places.

However, this book proves the contrary. As Wilfred McClay notes in the introduction, "We stand powerfully in need of such stable and coherent places in our lives--to ground us and orient us, and mark off a finite arena, rich with memory, for our activity as parents and children, as friends and neighbors, and as free and productive citizens."

McClay and McAllister invite the reader to consider what happens when there is no sense of place and all places are made to look the same. This becomes all the more necessary in a polarized nation where points of unity are lacking.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA must for the sentient.
By Wes on October 18, 2014
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This collection deserves four stars, five withheld for only the few.

Ah "place", the lamenting of which seems to be shared, though disproportionately, by both traditionalists and progressives. I highlighted five of the seventeen essays as especially moving and certainly worth the entrance fee; the other twelve of high quality, but more specific and detailed rather than broad and philosophical.

This apolitical collection of essays reminds us of what our highly transitory culture is sacrificing when its upwardly mobile choose to remain unrooted. Herein is found smart critiques of cosmopolitanism as inherently inhuman and uninteresting along with powerful and persuasive cries for localism over centralism. I find this work highly important and relevant; if you are like me and yearn for the more humane community of ancestral village life to be somehow, and admittedly impossibly, coupled with modern medicine, this collection can help make sense of the compromise we have made.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent!
By Boo Radley on March 27, 2014
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An extremely important book, especially for our low information youth, in today's simplistic "I'm just a citizen of the world" culture.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIntriguing Reads
By Chelsea Sanderson on January 11, 2016
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Intriguing. As someone who has moved many times, I found this little book of essays to be engaging and insightful. Inspired me to study the Philosophy of Place in more detail.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book!
By Jagem409 on March 13, 2015
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Great book! A nice addition to my collection!
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