Why Place Matters by Wilfred M. McClay
Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America
This book argues that physical places—landscapes, neighborhoods, buildings, and local institutions—are essential to human identity, memory, and moral formation, and that modern forces of mobility, consumerism, and technological abstraction have produced a damaging placelessness; through historical reflection, cultural analysis, and personal anecdotes the author shows how rootedness in particular places sustains community, continuity, and civic responsibility, and urges preservation of local history, careful urban design, and stewardship of natural and built environments to revive social bonds and democratic life.
- Published
- 2014
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Original Language
- English
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