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Thinking, Longing, and Nearness: In Memoriam Bernd Jager (1931-2015)
No full textCitation: Seamon, D. (2016). Thinking, Longing, and Nearness: In Memoriam Bernd Jager (1931-2015). Phenomenology & Practice, 10(1), 47-58. Retrieved from ://WOS:000379143500004Phenomenological psychologist Bernd Jager died in Montreal on March 30, 2015, at the age of 83. For many readers of Phenomenology & Practice, Jager was a greatly admired scholar who regularly attended and presented at the annual nternational Human Science Research conferences. His home institution, the Department of Psychology at the University of Quebec at Montreal, hosted the 2012 conference in which Jager played an instrumental role in organizing and hosting that event
Understanding place holistically: Cities, synergistic relationality, and space syntax
No full textCitation: Seamon, D. (2015). Understanding place holistically: Cities, synergistic relationality, and space syntax. The Journal of Space Syntax,6(1), 19-33. http://joss.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/journal/index.php/joss/article/view/246This article discusses two contrasting conceptual understandings of place. The approach of analytic relationality interprets places as sets of interconnected parts and their relationships. In contrast, synergistic relationality interprets places as integrated, generative fields, the parts of which are only parts as they both sustain and are sustained by the constitution and dynamism of the particular place as a whole. This article presents one interpretation of place as synergistic relationality by describing six interrelated, generative processes: place interaction, place identity, place release, place realization, place creation, and place intensification. The article considers how concepts and principles relating to space syntax contribute to understanding places as synergistic relationality broadly; and to understanding the six place processes specifically
‘A jumping, joyous urban jumble’: Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities as a phenomenology of urban place
No full textCitation: Seamon, D. (2012). ‘A jumping, joyous urban jumble’: Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities as a phenomenology of urban place. The Journal of Space Syntax,3(1), 139-149. http://joss.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/journal/index.php/joss/article/view/121In this forum report, I contend that Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities can be interpreted as a phenomenology of the city and urban place (Jacobs, 1961/1993). I consider four aspects of the book as they relate to a phenomenological approach: (1) Jacobs’s mode of seeing and understanding as phenomenological method; (2) her claim that ‘citiness’ is a phenomenon in its own right and has the power to draw and hold people to particular urban places; (3) her portrait of urban experience and place as they are founded in environmental embodiment; and (4) her pointing toward a constellation of place relationships and processes that potentially strengthen or weaken urban robustness. I argue that much of Jacobs’s argument has parallels with the findings of space syntax research, including themes highlighted by Julienne Hanson in her 2000 article, ‘Urban Transformations’ (Hanson, 2000)
Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 24, issue 1
No full textVol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2013 (includes “items of interest,” book reviews by David Seamon, & Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and essays by Matthew Bower & Thomas Owen)
Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 23, issue 3
No full textVol. 23, No. 3, Fall 2012 (includes “items of interest,” “citations received,” book reviews by David Seamon & Benoît Jacquet, and essays by Reza Shirazi & John Cameron)
Ritorno alla geografia umanistica di David Seamon: prime riflessioni
No full textIl contributo si propone di esaminare l’approccio del geografo David Seamon in relazione a una delle sue opere più conosciute e influenti. Collocate le teorie e la metodologia di Seamon nel quadro della geografia umanistica coeva e in quello del pensiero fenomenologico, il contributo analizza alcuni studi direttamente legati alle intuizioni di Seamon e ne dimostra, infine, tanto il valore attuale quanto i potenziali impieghi per lo sviluppo di nuove analisi geografiche dei luoghi.The article seeks to examine geographer David Seamon’s approach with regard to one of his most known and influential works. After classifying Seamon’s theories and method according to humanistic geography and phenomenological philosophy, the article analyses some studies that deal with Seamon’s ideas. In the end, the article demonstrates the present value of the approach developed by Seamon and its potential recourses for new geographical analysis of places
Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 28, issue 2
No full textVol. 28, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2017 (includes “’Atmosphere’ book series,” “Place and Phenomenology,” “Christopher Alexander and a new master’s degree in Architecture,” “Publishing opportunity,” “Phenomenology commons,” “Conferences,” “Citations received;” essays by David Seamon, Anne Buttimer, Robert Barzan, Jenny Quillien, John Cameron; book Note by Jane Jacobs; book review by Isis Brook.
Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 10, issue 3
No full textVol. 10, No. 3, Fall 1999 (includes “items of interest,” "citations received,” book reviews of Yi-Fu's Cosmos and Heath and Wendell Berry's Another Turn of the Crank, essays by David Seamon & Tom Jay, and poems by Miles Richardson & Judyth Hill)
Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Vol. 35, issue 1
No full textThis winter/spring issue provides four book reviews and three essays: Cognitive scientist Andrea Hiott reviews psychotherapist Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things; Architect Susan Ingham reviews Lisa Heschong’s Visual Delight in Architecture; Anthropologist Jenny Quillien reviews architect Howard Davis’s edited collection of Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander; EAP editor David Seamon reviews Christopher Alexander’s Production of Houses; Architect Howard Davis reports on a recent event celebrating Alexander’s Mexicali self-help housing experiment; Architect Gary Coates provides the new preface to his recently reprinted Resettling America, originally published in 1981; Philosopher Jeff Malpas offers remarks for a memoriam event devoted to the late Bob Mugerauer, a co-founder of EAP; Anthropologist Jenny Quillien introduces a phenomenological reformulation of the ideas of early-twentieth-century geographer and environmental determinist Ellen Churchill Semple
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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
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