This page is for listing web resources that concern analysing place as a construct.
Bruce Janz, a Canadian philosophy professor, has an immense bibliography of academic work on place and space at http://www.augustana.ca/~janzb/place/.
This has moved to http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/ -- Ian
His [syllabus] for his class on Representations of Place and Space also has much interesting material.
[Here] is an annotated bibliography for an American studies course at the University of Maryland on interpretation of cultural landscapes.
[A huge collection] of nature writing resources, all of them online. Also, try playing with
[this Google search] for more inspiration.
The
[The Center for Land Use Interpretation] in Los Angeles is well worth visiting (Culver City, CA), as is its website. Not apparent from the website is the mini-collection, at the onsite {in-place?} bookstore, of books on place.
Some notes by Simon Unwin on analysing architecture are
[here], including sections on identification of place and primitive place types.