Eddington in his Post #155 introduced the subject of Episodic Memory. I agree with him in that Tulving's model may be a bit too crude to account for most of...
If I can be excused for disgressing from Episodic Memory…There is another angle to this thing of Landscapes of Childhood you are discussing: "sense of...
Yes Tittivulus - wonder is wonderful! As Diane Ackerman put it in Rarest of the Rare: "Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck...
Hi, I have been busy finishing PhD and have not responded for some time, however the sense of wonder is a major interest of mine, indeed I wrote the 2002 book...
To H. Washington: I read your book some years ago; I must say I enjoyed it very much. Regarding the point you make in your Post " and to teach children in...
This place has been pretty silent for quite some time; seems to happen to us every Summer. Now, with Autumn well on his way, I hope we'll renew our exchanges...
I have been reading lately another of Jeff Malpas books: "Heidegger's Topology" , "Being, Place, World" (MIT Press, 2006) I'm not qualified to write here a...
There appears to be a number of different senses of sense of place or of landscape. Of these, I'd like to quote three: a philosophical sense, a (social)...
In the last Post HWillburn writes about the various senses of the sense of landscape . Regarding the (Human) Geographic sense, I'd like to draw attention to...
In my last Post ( #163) I mentioned three different senses for sense of place/landscape. I selected those three, among many others, because of their importance...
There have been several Posts dealing with sense of place or of landscape, bot no one appears to have mentioned a definition of the terms. Shouldn't we specify...
Eddington7 in Post #164 writes: There have been several Posts dealing with sense of place or of landscape, bot no one appears to have mentioned a definition of...
I've been reading lately a very interesting book "The Image of the City" by Kevin Lynch; (MIT Press, 1996). Although intended primarily for city planners or...
Continuing my latest Post on Lynch's "Image of the City" : perhaps it'd be better if I quote and then proceed to comment on its relevance to landscapes. " An...
Yet another concept devised by Kevin Lynch: Imageability. The term relates to the attributes of identity and structure in a mental image which were discussed...
As said, Kevin's Lynch's Imageability has merited considerable attention in the field of Landscape Studies. From all those I'd like to dwell, because of its...
Continuing with the concept of Imageability in the sense ascribed to it by Tveit, Ode & Fry (see ref. in Post #171): The authors define imageability as: ...
I proposed in previous Posts that the imageability of a landscape could be considered as a key criterion in appreciating a landscape. However, to say that...
Hallo everyone! A long time since I wrote anything here. But on reading Jorge's last Post I felt that I should sound some warning bells. He asks: " To what...
Regarding Tittivulus last Post (# 174): Thanks Tittivulus for sounding what you call "warning bells"; you are quite right in that one should be careful in...
Sense of place is for some synonymous with Spirit of Place. I thought worthwhile to call your attention to an Essay written by Alice Meynell, back in 1899. Her...
Bravo, Eddington7! The Meynell's quote you posted is much to the point. I do much agree with you that poetry can give us insights in nuce of the 'spirit of...
There is a remarkable poem by P.B. Shelley which is very much relevant to "Sense of Landscape; in this case a "sublime" landscape and the feelings aroused in...
Regarding the preceding Posts (#1575-178) on Poetry: I very much agree with Tittivulus in that "poetry can give us insights in nuce of the 'spirit of...
Dear Members: I intend to illustrate some points of our current subject (Character in Landscape) with landscapes paintings and photos. I suppose you'll all...
From the answers I've got so far, it looks like that many of you couldn't see the test- image inserted in my last Post. For the time being, till we solve the...
Continuing with "Character in Landscape", from John A. Jakle's book "The Visual Elements in Landscape, initiated in Post # 179. I am indebted to Prof. Jakle...
Continued from last Message:- " The search for character of place invites the sightseer to look beneath a landscape's broad outline to study the particular...
Continued from last Post: Here are some details, slabs, of the Pontoise landscape on which our vision may linger for a while; and may Pissarro (æ"́ ) forgive...
The noun "synergy" is defined by the Oxford American Dictionary as "the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to...
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