Colin EllardPlaces of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
Colin Ellard, who works at the intersection of neuroscience and architectural and environmental design, is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall and Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). He has published scientific work in international journals in North America, Europe, and Asia for the past twenty-five years and has also contributed to the public discussion of environmental psychology through his work with museums and the media. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, Ellard lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nature in Space
Chapter 2. Places of Affection
Chapter 3. Places of Lust
Chapter 4. Boring Places
Chapter 5. Places of Anxiety
Chapter 6. Places of Awe
Chapter 7. Space and Technology I: The World in a Machine
Chapter 8. Space and Technology II: The Machine in the World
Conclusions: Coming Home Again
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
