Life Takes Place Phenomenology Lifeworlds and Place Making 1st Edition by David Seamon 0815380704 9780815380702

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ISBN 10: 0815380704 

ISBN 13: 9780815380702

Author: David Seamon

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.”

Table of contents:

1. Life Takes Place: An Introduction
Grounding Place as a Phenomenon and Concept
Outlining the Book
Notes

2. Preliminaries for a Phenomenology of Place: Principles, Concepts, and Method
Describing Phenomenology
The Lived Body and Environmental Embodiment
Place and Phenomenological Method
Notes

3. Understanding Place Holistically: Analytic vs. Synergistic Relationality
Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Place
Notes

4. Explicating Wholeness: Belonging, Progressive Approximation, and Systematics
Bortoft’s Understanding of Wholeness
Belonging Together
Bennett’s Progressive Approximation
Bennett’s Systematics
The Monad
The Dyad
Notes

5. The Monad of Place
Aspects of the Monad of Place
The Place Monad and Lived Emplacement
Modes of Lived Emplacement
The Commingling of Place and Lived Emplacement
Note

6. The Dyad of Place

1. Movement and Rest

2. Insideness and Outsideness

3. The Ordinary and the Extra-Ordinary

4. Inward and Outward Aspects of Place

5. Homeworld and Alienworld

7. Understanding the Triad: Relationships, Resolutions, and Processes
The Triad, Three-ness, and Relationship
The Triad’s Three Impulses
The Triad’s Three Positions and Six Resulting Triads

1. The Triad of Interaction (1–3–2)

2. The Triad of Identity (2–3–1)

3. The Triad of Expansion (1–2–3)

4. The Triad of Concentration (2–1–3)

5. The Triad of Order (3–1–2)

6. The Triad of Freedom (3–2–1)
   Some Key Points about Triads
   Notes

8. The Three Place Impulses and the Six Place Triads
Identifying and Justifying the Three Impulses of Place
The Six Place Triads
Notes

9. The Triad of Place Interaction (1–3–2 or PP–CP–EE)
The Triad of Place Interaction
Types of Place Interaction
Typologies of People–People Interaction
Lofland’s Typology of People–Place Interactions
Deciphering Interaction Triads
Interaction Triads as Chains
Interaction Triads as Nexus
Notes

10. The Triad of Place Identity (2–3–1 or EE–CP–PP)
The Triad of Place Identity
Intense Identification with a House
Intense Identification with Home
Unsuccessful Place Identity
Place Interaction and Place Identity Together
An Interdependence of Interaction and Identity
Notes

11. The Triad of Place Release (3–2–1 or CP–EE–PP)
The Triad of Place Release
Experiencing Place Release
Place Release and Chains of Place Events
Place Release, Environmental Ensemble, and People-in-Place
Novelty, Place, and Possibility
Notes

12. The Triad of Place Realization (3–1–2 or CP–PP–EE)
Examples of Place Realization
The Shop/House as Unself-Conscious Place Realization
McDonald’s as Self-Conscious Place Realization
Notes

13. The Triad of Place Intensification (2–1–3 or EE–PP–CP)
Examples of Place Intensification
Architecture Organizing Life
Design Enlivening Plazas and Parks
Topology Organizing Lifeworlds
Environmental Ensemble Supporting Place Ballet
Notes

14. The Triad of Place Creation (1–2–3 or PP–EE–CP)
Examples of Place Creation
Envisioning Wind Turbines Attuned to Place and People
Healing an Eroded Landscape
Designing and Building an Egyptian Village
Understanding and Making Wholeness
Discovering a Phenomenology of the City
Notes

15. Integrating the Six Place Processes
The Six Place Processes as Strengthening and Weakening Place
The Six Place Processes as Event and Place Tube
Place, Synergistic Relationality, and Caring for Place
Place, Place Making, and Synergistic Relationality
Notes

16. Life Takes Place: Criticisms, Concerns, and the Future of Places
Place, Lived Emplacement, and Place Processes as Essentialist Concepts
Place, Lived Emplacement, and Environmental Determinism
Places as Sites of Difference and Conflict
Places as Exclusionary or Shifting Nodes in a Globalized Network
Place, Lived Emplacement, and Place Justice
Notes

Postscript: Experience versus Knowledge and the Lived versus the Conceptual
Experiencing versus Knowing
Triads as Lifeworld Structures
A Progressive Understanding
Place as Unpredictable and Marvelous
Note

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