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Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life, by Colin Ellard

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Praise for Places of the HeartLibrary of Science Book Club selectionDiscover magazine “What to Read” selectionBook Riot “Small Press Book to Read” selection“A really great book.” —IRA FLATOW, Science Friday “A great read.” —RUDY MAXA, Rudy Maxa’s World“From Neolithic monuments that awe to ‘playground casinos’ that empty wallets, Ellard argues that a scientific understanding of how our surroundings affect us must be the foundation on which we build the cities and homes of tomorrow.” —Discover“Meshing recent findings with thoughtful appraisals of their implications, Ellard looks at spaces and the awe, lust, boredom, affection or anxiety that they trigger. He is richly insightful, particularly on digital encroachments into the experience of place.” —Nature“Wide-ranging and absorbing. . . . Powerfully and comprehensively written. . . . An exceptional introduction to a vital part of the human experience.” —Colorado Review“Ellard breaks down psychological and neurological information in an accessible way. . . . Highly recommended.” —Book Riot“Aren’t architects and urban planners trained to design buildings and cities? Why should a psychologist have a say in this? Because Ellard brings tools to the design board that should help ensure more positive responses to urban environment, from a mundane alleyway to an awe-inspiring cathedral or city hall. . . . Places of the Heart should stimulate debate about how our cities are shaped and how they shape us.” —Waterloo Region Record“Ellard shows that simple distinctions between nature and culture tend to collapse where many modern technologies are concerned. . . . Many of the trends with which Ellard engages—such as virtual reality technology that would allow individuals to live in a curated, mediated, personalized, and highly commodified bubble—sound as if they were pulled from the pages of Ray Bradburyesque science fiction.” —Quill & Quire “If you care about your city and your happiness, read every page of this fascinating book. Places of the Heart offers a thrilling journey through the pathways of our cities and the human mind. This is no flight of fancy. It’s an evidence-based exploration of how the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies. Colin Ellard is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities—and ourselves.” —CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design“This beautifully written book grabs the reader from the start, with personal stories from the author’s life interwoven with history, archaeology, technology, and design.” —ESTHER M. STERNBERG, MD, author of Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-BeingPraise for Colin Ellard“One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles Times“Delightfully lucid. . . . Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” —New York Times Book Review“[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.” —NPR“[Ellard] entertain[s] us with an explanation of the cold, hard science [and] artfully constructed exploration[s] of how our relationship to spaces plays a huge part in making us human.” —Quill & Quire“Fascinating.” —Globe and Mail“Smart.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer“Delightful.” —Publishers Weekly“Ellard writes with admirable clarity.” —Kirkus Reviews“As an architect . . . [Ellard] took me on a journey to places I’d never even considered before.” —SARAH SUSANKA, author of The Not So Big HousePraise for Places of the HeartLibrary of Science Book Club selectionDiscover magazine “What to Read” selectionBook Riot “Small Press Book to Read” selection“A really great book.” ―IRA FLATOW, Science Friday “A great read.” ―RUDY MAXA, Rudy Maxa’s World“From Neolithic monuments that awe to ‘playground casinos’ that empty wallets, Ellard argues that a scientific understanding of how our surroundings affect us must be the foundation on which we build the cities and homes of tomorrow.” ―Discover“Meshing recent findings with thoughtful appraisals of their implications, Ellard looks at spaces and the awe, lust, boredom, affection or anxiety that they trigger. He is richly insightful, particularly on digital encroachments into the experience of place.” ―Nature“Wide-ranging and absorbing. . . . Powerfully and comprehensively written. . . . An exceptional introduction to a vital part of the human experience.” ―Colorado Review“Ellard breaks down psychological and neurological information in an accessible way. . . . Highly recommended.” ―Book Riot“Aren’t architects and urban planners trained to design buildings and cities? Why should a psychologist have a say in this? Because Ellard brings tools to the design board that should help ensure more positive responses to urban environment, from a mundane alleyway to an awe-inspiring cathedral or city hall. . . . Places of the Heart should stimulate debate about how our cities are shaped and how they shape us.” ―Waterloo Region Record“Ellard shows that simple distinctions between nature and culture tend to collapse where many modern technologies are concerned. . . . Many of the trends with which Ellard engages―such as virtual reality technology that would allow individuals to live in a curated, mediated, personalized, and highly commodified bubble―sound as if they were pulled from the pages of Ray Bradburyesque science fiction.” ―Quill & Quire “If you care about your city and your happiness, read every page of this fascinating book. Places of the Heart offers a thrilling journey through the pathways of our cities and the human mind. This is no flight of fancy. It’s an evidence-based exploration of how the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies. Colin Ellard is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities―and ourselves.” ―CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design“This beautifully written book grabs the reader from the start, with personal stories from the author’s life interwoven with history, archaeology, technology, and design.” ―ESTHER M. STERNBERG, MD, author of Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-BeingPraise for Colin Ellard“One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” ―Los Angeles Times“Delightfully lucid. . . . Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” ―New York Times Book Review“[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.” ―NPR“[Ellard] entertain[s] us with an explanation of the cold, hard science [and] artfully constructed exploration[s] of how our relationship to spaces plays a huge part in making us human.” ―Quill & Quire “Fascinating.” ―Globe and Mail“Smart.” ―Cleveland Plain Dealer“Delightful.” ―Publishers Weekly“Ellard writes with admirable clarity.” ―Kirkus Reviews“As an architect . . . [Ellard] took me on a journey to places I’d never even considered before.” ―SARAH SUSANKA, author of The Not So Big House

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About the Author

Colin Ellard, who works at the intersection of neuroscience and architectural and environmental design, is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall and Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). He has published scientific work in international journals in North America, Europe, and Asia for the past twenty-five years and has also contributed to the public discussion of environmental psychology through his work with museums and the media. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, Ellard lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

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Product details

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press (September 15, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1942658001

ISBN-13: 978-1942658009

Product Dimensions:

6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.7 out of 5 stars

6 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#159,505 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

good readings.

I read non-fiction only sometimes, and was worried this topic might be a bit of technical or dry, but I was quite fascinated on almost every page with a field of science I had never before explored. Ellard splits up his material into the emotional reactions that different places manifest in us, and then breaks down those emotional responses to their technical and scientific elements without ever losing the thread of a compelling narrative.He mixes in stories from his own life, or examples of emotions caused by places that we've all felt. For instance, I know now that he loved a particular red metal can opener that was taken from him by rust, and he still wistfully thinks of it when opening a can of beans. :) (And then he describes the science of why he may feel that!)For me, though, I was hugely surprised at the amount that is unknown in this field. Ellard sometimes describes two contrasting theories for what is happening at a given time - like how we feel in places of awe - and tries to reconcile those differences. I think this should be mandatory reading for any urban planner, or anyone who has a house they want to feel like home.All in all, a fascinating read that I plan on picking up for an architect friend of mine, and maybe I'll share my copy with my aunt and sisters, but I may make them get their own.

Psychogeography is, in Ellard’s opinion, how our surroundings affect our moods and behavior. How plants make any place seem better- and make people less apt to destroy things. How featureless concrete expanses make a person nervous and unwilling to linger. How surroundings can awe, suffocate, sooth, or tempt a person (think the insides of shopping malls). He explains how and why people have these reactions, and how they can be used to manipulate people. He also goes into how digital technology is changing things, and how it could be used to alienate or integrate.This is important stuff for any architect, designer, or city planner. It’s also helpful for just about anyone who wants to understand why the feel the way they do in certain environments. One part I especially liked was when he wrote about Temple Grandin’s slaughter house designs that keep cattle calm instead of panicked as they go to their deaths- this is manipulation at its most obvious. How many places do we frequent that affect us in a similar way without our ever being aware of it? The book is technical but easily readable. Recommended.

Overly academic prose that seems to lack actual meaning. I tried, I'm theoretically interested in this topic, but could not force actual meaning from the pontificating and defining that only a professor would love.

The book's premise looked promising, but the writing is so dead and the organization of information so shoddy and shallow that about a third of the way in I realized that I knew nothing and gave up.

Ellard makes the esoteric accessible

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