Intelligence of Place

Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities creative arts and social sciences. Yet in spite of its centrality place remains a concept more often deployed than interrogated and there are relatively few works that focus directly on the concept of place as such. <i>The Intelligence of Place</i> fills this gap providing an exploration of place from various perspectives encompassing anthropology architecture geography media philosophy and the arts and as it stands in relation to a range of other concepts. <br/><br/>Drawing together many of the key thinkers currently writing on the topic <i>The Intelligence of Place</i> offers a unique point of entry into the contemporary thinking of place - into its topographies and poetics - providing new insights into a concept crucial to understanding our world and ourselves.