{"title":"Introduction: Geographies of the 11th","authors":"A. Light","doi":"10.1080/10903770120116778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770120116778","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124417321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban planning in the founding of Cartesian thought","authors":"A. Akkerman","doi":"10.1080/10903770124810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770124810","url":null,"abstract":"It is a matter of tacit consensus that rationalist adeptness in urban planning traces its foundations to the philosophy of the Renaissance thinker and mathematician René Descartes. This study suggests, in turn, that the planned urban environment of the Renaissance may have also led Descartes, and his intellectual peers, to tenets that became the foundations of modern philosophy and science. The geometric street pattern of the late middle ages and the Renaissance, the planned townscapes, street views and the formal garden design, appeared as parables for the perfection of the universe and the supremacy of critical reason. It is within this urban metaphor that Descartes's philosophical narrative betrays perceptual and conceptual impact from the contrast between convoluted medieval townscapes and the emerging harmonious street patterns where defined vistas and predictable clarity of street views were paramount. The geometrically delineated street views of the Renaissance new town became the spark that lit the philosopher's sagacity in reflecting upon the concept of \"clear and distinct ideas.\" Past suggestions that Descartes was led to his philosophical breakthroughs through his discovery of co-ordinate geometry reinforce further the stance that Renaissance planning predisposed rationalist thought.","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123336422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving places: A comment on the traveling Vietnam Memorial","authors":"R. Hall","doi":"10.1080/10903770125038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770125038","url":null,"abstract":"Recently my University, along with various other local sponsors, brought “The Moving Wall” to our campus. Much ado was made over this traveling fold-up replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC. Speakers were invited, visitors ocked to “The Wall,” and there was much weeping, remembering, and patriotic ag-waving. Strangely, however, there was something wrong, something unsettling, or as I might say, something “out of place,” about all of this. My friend and colleague (Professor R. Taylor Scott), sensing this before I did, was more than a little upset over the theatrics of this wall-replica. He in fact thought this propped-up hollow movie set mock-up of the real monument in Washington was nothing less than a desecration. To his sensibility, something was deeply troubling about the assumption that lay behind this event. That assumption is that we can uproot at will a truly sacred place, a place that is truly moving, and without desecrating it, simply set a replica of it down wherever some group (who is willing to pay) wants it. (I do not mean to suggest that “The Moving Wall” is simply a money making scheme. But then again, I do not know that it is not. In a country in which everything is for sale, perhaps our sacred monuments have their price too. I add that there are at least seven of these traveling shows touring the country at a cost of several thousands dollars per engagement.) As my colleague thought of it, something important, something vital, was lost when that grooved-out, grave-like place in the Mall in our nation’s capital was turned into a traveling circus. To express his reservations about these matters, Professor Scott wrote a guest column in the local newspaper, one of the sponsors that brought “The Wall” to town. Reluctantly, and with biting editorial comment, the paper published his essay and invited the public to respond. And respond they did, with a vengeance. My friend actually began to fear for his life. The public was outraged that a local Professor (of Religion no less, and an Episcopal cleric to boot) would deign to criticize such a symbol of American heroism. One might as well call apple pie and the ag into question. Disappointingly, to me and to him, was the fact that the ood of local letters of response to the Editor, almost all of which supported “The Wall,” did not see any point in my colleague’s objection to it. Being against the wall, so to speak, and feeling a bit alone, Taylor sought me out","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131069577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wind, energy, landscape: Reconciling nature and technology","authors":"G. Brittan","doi":"10.1080/10903770124626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770124626","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the fact that they are in most respects environmentally benign, electricity-generating wind turbines frequently encounter a great deal of resistance. Much of this resistance is aesthetic in character; wind turbines somehow do not \"fit\" in the landscape. On one (classical) view, landscapes are beautiful to the extent that they are \"scenic,\" well-balanced compositions. But wind turbines introduce a discordant note, they are out of \"scale.\" On another (ecological) view, landscapes are beautiful if their various elements form a stable and integrated organic whole. But wind turbines are difficult to integrate into the biotic community; at least in certain respects, they are like \"weeds.\" Moreover, there is a reason why the 100-meter, three bladed wind turbines now favored by the industry cannot very well be accommodated to any landscape view. They are, as Albert Borgmann would put it, characteristic of contemporary technology, distanced \"devices\" for the production of a commodity rather than \"things\" with which one can engage. It follows that the only way in which the aesthetic resistance to wind turbines can be overcome is to make them more \"thing-like.\" One such \"thing-like\" turbine is discussed.","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"498 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129944979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"J.E. Malpas's Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography (Cambridge University Press, 1999) Converging and diverging in/on place","authors":"E. Casey","doi":"10.1080/10903770123141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770123141","url":null,"abstract":"I am delighted to comment on Jeff Malpas’s Place and Experience, clearly the most important recent book on the question of place—likely, the most important book ever on this elusive subject. Malpas himself prefers to call place “opaque” or “obscure”: and if this is so, he is the one who, after so many centuries of neglect and misunderstanding, has cast the most light into its darkest corners. In particular, he has opened a dialogue on place which extends across entire continents and channels of philosophy—and between philosophy and literature and psychology—in deft and decisive ways. For place-o-philes such as myself, he has opened an entire realm of discourse about this dif cult topic.","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114082116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing topographies: Across paths/around place: A reply to Casey","authors":"J. Malpas","doi":"10.1080/10903770123850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770123850","url":null,"abstract":"by the vulnerability of place, which re ects human contingency and mortality: “the fragility and mortality of human life must be seen as nothing other than the same fragility and mortality that attaches to the places and spaces of human dwelling and just as inevitable” (PE, 191). 6. Malpas’s use of “event” ties it to objective space: see PE, 35, 168. In my own usage, it signi es the coming together of space and time in place—in one occurrence. See The Fate of Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 309 ff., 339. 7. For this phrase, see PE, 22, 33, 170. 8. Malpas employs “room” only rarely, e.g., at PE, 64, where it signi es what subjective and objective space share. For the broader reaches of “room,” see The Fate of Place, 87, 122–3, 257–8, 261, 266, 282. 9. The phrase “the character of places as unitary structures” is employed at PE, 185. 10. On places as contained in their own frames, and on their folding-out and folding-in character, see PE, 172.","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122513961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The city and the philosopher: On the urbanism of phenomenology","authors":"E. Mendieta","doi":"10.1080/10903770124212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770124212","url":null,"abstract":"Philosophy projects a certain understanding of reason that is related to the ways in which the city figures in its imaginary. Conversely, the city is a practice of spatialization that determines the ways in which agents are able, or unable, to live out their social agency. This essay focuses on the ways in which philosophy and the city's spatializing practices and imaginaries inform differential ways of living out social agency. The thrust of the investigation is to discern the ways in which sexism - differential engendering - results from the relationship that exists between philosophy and the city. To illustrate this link between philosophy, the city, and differential engendering, the work turns to a consideration of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenology, which is taken as an exemplary illustration of the entwinement between the philosophical imaginary, and the perception and reception of the city.","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127824076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vagueness in geography","authors":"Achille C. Varzi","doi":"10.1080/10903770124125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770124125","url":null,"abstract":"Some have argued that the vagueness exhibited by geographic names and descriptions such as ''Albuquerque,'' ''the Outback,'' or ''Mount Everest'' is ultimately ontological: these terms are vague because they refer to vague objects , objects with fuzzy boundaries. I take the opposite stand and hold the view that geographic vagueness is exclusively semantic, or conceptual at large. There is no such thing as a vague mountain. Rather, there are many things where we conceive a mountain to be, each with its precise boundary, and when we say ''Everest'' we are just being vague as to which thing we are referring to. This paper defends this view against some plausible objections.","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122216748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The two professions of Hippodamus of Miletus","authors":"Roger Paden","doi":"10.1080/10903770124644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10903770124644","url":null,"abstract":"According to Aristotle, both urban planning and political philosophy originated in the work of one man, Hippodamus of Miletus. If Aristotle is right, then the study of Hippodamus's work should help us understand their history as interrelated fields. Unfortunately, it is difficult to determine with any degree of precision exactly what Hippodamus's contributions were to these two fields when the two fields are studied separately. In urban planning, Hippodamus was traditionally credited with having invented the ''grid pattern'' in which straight streets intersect each other at right angles to form regular city blocks. However, as grid patterned cities have been discovered that were built before Hippodamus's birth, this traditional attribution must be false. In political philosophy, Hippodamus was credited with having written the first utopian ''constitution''. However, Aristotle's account of this constitution is so brief that it is difficult to determine what philosophical position lies behind it and, as that account makes clear, several of the laws governing Hippodamus's ideal city seem contradictory. In this paper, I argue that Hippodamus did significant work in both fields but that his intentions can only be seen clearly if his philosophical and architectural works are read together. This reading not only makes clear the unique contribution that Hippodamus made to both disciplines, but it shows how they were-and perhaps how they should be-related.","PeriodicalId":431617,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy & Geography","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131963602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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