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Poetry

Basho, The Narrow Way to the North

Mary Oliver, New and Collected Poems

Mary Oliver, What Do We Know

Gary Snyder, Mountains and Rivers Without End

Non-fiction, general

Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

John Brinckerhoff Jackson, The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics

John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time

Robert L. Thayer, Jr., Life Place: Bioregional Thought and Practice

Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places

Non-fiction, regional

Elias Chacour, We Belong to the Land

Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin, Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream

John Elder, Reading the Mountains of Home

Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

Jan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

David Robertson, The Narrow Way to Nearby

John Stilgoe, Alongshore

William Least-Heat Moon, Prairy Erth: A Deep Map

Non-fiction, history

Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin

William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

John Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845

Steven Mithen, After the Ice


For a voluminous bibliography of academic work on place and space, maintained by a philosophy professor in Canada, see http://www.augustana.ca/~janzb/place/ --Allan

This has now moved to http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/ -- Ian

Also see WebResourcesOnPlace.


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