This page provides a list of all entries at Placeness.com and is intended to supplement the menus and search function. It also includes a list of topics for which I hope to provide entries.
Entries to February 2024 [showing date of last revision]
A. Background and general information. All these are shown in the menu at the top of screen. They will not change much except for the Table of Contents (this page) which I will update every time I add a post.
• Introduction to Placeness and Place (the home page) [Oct 2015]
• Table of Contents (this page) which is probably the quickest way to find topics
• A Place-related Autobiography (describes the places I have lived and how these might influence my interpretations of place) [Oct 2015]
• My Publications about Place [Oct 2021]
• Definitions of Place (summarizes a number of dictionary definitions plus quotes from\ major contributors to discussions of place) [Jan 2015]
• Place on Google: Results of a Search (summarizes and provides links to place related websites listed in a Google search) [Oct 2015][Reviewed Oct 2023]
B. Index of posts on specific Place topics arranged alphabetically. Most recent posts are listed in the menu at side of screen.
• Airports as Non-Places [February 2024]
• Changes to Place over the last 50 years – 1 Reinforcing Distinctiveness[ Sept 2018]
• Changes to Place over the last 50 years – 2 Experiences [Sept 2018]
• Changes to Place over the last 50 years – 3 Theoretical [Sept 2018]
• Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges [Synopsis of a book, Nov 2021]
• Continuity and Change in Places (Feb 2020)
• Dardel on Geographicality, Space, Landscape and Place (May 2022)
• Ecology of Place (Feb 2017)
• Future of Places: An Overview (June 2020)
• Future of Places: Data and Sources on Legacy and Population (July 2020)
• Future of Places: Data and Sources on Urbanization (July 2020)
• Future of Place: Data and Sources on Climate Change and World Views (July 2020)
• Future of Places – notes on a conference [Sept 2016]
• Global Trends 2040 and Implications for the Future of Places (September 2021)
• Health and Place: A Very Brief Introduction (February 2024
• Home and Place [June 2016]
• History and Future of Places, Introduction [Jan 2020]
• History of Places Part One: 10000 BCE to 1000
• History of Places Part Two: 1000 to the Present
• Identity of and with Place (February 2021)
• Islandia and Love of Place (an account of Austin Tappan Wright’s utopian novel in which love of place is central theme) [Mar 2015, with short update Jan 2017)]
• Long-Term Trends currently Affecting Places [March 2020]
• Mobility and Place (a discussion stimulated by articles in Atlantic Monthly about whether Americans mostly stay put or are mobile) [Apr 2015]
• Non-Place/Placelessness Ideas [Jan 2016]
• Place-Based Education and Learning [December 2022]
• Place Branding [December 2015]
• Place Cells and Sense of Place in Neuroscience [Oct 2015]
• Place and Literature: Interpretations [October 2021]
• Place and Localism [Jan 2019]
• Place and Poetry [Feb 2018]
• Place in War and Peace and Climate Change (March 2022)
• Place on Google: Updated 2023 (October 2023)
• Place, Time, Heritage, Temporality (April 2017, revised July 2017)
• Place Trends 1970-1990 – Heritage, Globalization, Postmodernity (March 2020)
• Place Trends 1990-2020 – Placemaking, Electronic Media, Climate Change (April 2020)
• Placemaking and the Production of Places: Origins [Jan 2016]
• Placeless Internet (two meanings)
• Politics of Place (September 2017)
• Power of Place 1: Intrinsic Power (August 2017)
• Power of Place 2: Ascribed Political and Economic Power (August 2017)
• Pragmatic Sense of Place and the Future of Places (Jan 2017)
• Role of Place in the Insights of Philosophers and Scientists (Feb 2023)
• Seeking Reality: a classification of approaches to studying place (March 2017)
• Sense of Place: An Overview (a review of different ideas about sense of place – global, poisoned, neurological, a mental faculty, etc) [Feb 2015]
• Sense of Place in Five Diagrams [Oct 2023]
• Shared Socioeconomic Pathways from the IPCC and their implications for the Future of Places (September 2021)
• Spirit of Place/Genius Loci (observations about the diversity of approaches associated with these ideas, sacred and secular, in architecture and literature) [Mar 2015]
• Solastalgia, or distress at the loss of place [November 2023]
• Toponymy and Place Names [November 2015]
• Topophilia and Topophils [Halloween, 2015]
• Topophobia [November 2015]
• What will happen to economic growth as populations shrink and costs of natural disasters rise? (December 2021, with a brief update June 2023)
• Writing about Place (March 2017)
C. Possible Proposed Future Entries
These are in no particular order and may change as I complete actual posts, but they do give an idea of my intentions. There will be overlaps and some repetition.
An interior design and furniture store somewhere east of Toronto about 1985
- major contributors to discussions about place
- the experience of place
- pride of place
- in place and out of place
- displacement
- body, self, place
- borders and boundaries
- betweenness of place
- roots
- dwelling
- uprooting
- art and place
- authenticity
- nostalgia
- site and situation
- sacred places
- therapeutic/healthy places
- territory
- gender and place
- locale
- atopia, dystopia, polytopia
- topology and topistics
- global sense of place
- time and place
- emplacement and embedding
- ghosts of place
- throwntogetherness
- scale and place
- heterotopia
- deterritorialization
- the production and destruction of place
- architecture and built places
- virtual place and cyberplaces