Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape; architecture and design; this volume provides a rare insight into peoplersquo;s engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets peoplersquo;s needs and desires in the twenty-first century.Embracing issues of social inclusion; recreation; and environmental quality; the editors explore innovative ways to develop an understanding of how the landscape; urban or rural; can contribute to health and quality of life.Open Space: People Space examines the nature and value of peoplersquo;s access to outdoor environments. Led by Edinburghrsquo;s OPENspace research centre; the debate focuses on current research to support good design for open space and brings expertise from a range of disciplines to look at: an analysis of policy and planning issues and challenges understanding the nature and experience of exclusion the development of evidence-based inclusive design innovative research approaches which focus on peoplersquo;s access to open space and the implications of that experience. Invaluable to policy makers; researchers; urban designers; landscape architects; planners; managers and students; it is also essential reading for those working in child development; health care and community development.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Terror JouissanceBy Bob J. BakerTerror JouissanceThe Shattering of the Selfby Cynthia MarshallOne can approach this book hoping for a part of the answer to "understanding terrorism" and "why do they hate us?" Using a post-Freudian toolkit of literary; gender and film theory on Shakespeares Titus Andronicus; a play of torture; rape and dismemberment popular in his day and revived in our own; as well as on other popular and ghastly works of that time; the author explains them; to greatly simplify; as a reaction to the emerging individuality in the Renaissance. This new sense of "self" could not satisfy all the passion and depth of the total personality; and so was a hindrance to the expression of more complete and natural human feelings--which are much more than our con-scious understanding; ethics; mores or religion.In the audiences pleasurable participation in the "shattering" of all that someone called "the seven deadly virtues" there was joy and release for the moment--all within the irresponsible safety of the collective group. This shattering allowed the eventually reassembled "self" ("ego" in Jungian terms) to take into account; become conscious of; some of the previously missing or supplanted complexity.Today; with our "only superpower" ego-formation; we are missing a lot of realities; not only in our individual and national unconscious; but also in the greater world beyond our borders. We dont have to depend on Shakespeare revivals to supply us with corrective violence--we have our own movie/TV monstrosities: Swarznegger/Stallone/StevenKings; etc.. We also have the terrorists on the world stage eager to shatter our self-image; because its an image that has been supplanting or impinging on the once relatively stable collective selves of the resentful citizens of other places. Think of the defeated Souths actor/assassin Booth; drawn to the stage at Fords Theater; of the stage-struck terrorists from suppressed Chechnya that made their entrance at a Moscow theater.Terrible things happen when mans supposed goodness is overplayed and his dark side denied. We think were good; the terrorists think theyre good. Where does the evil go? Its sometimes played out in local crime; national theaters; on the world stage. We are shattered.Professor Marshalls book is a scholarly; wonderfully wise; detailed and painful examination of how it worked in various media in Shakespeares time; and more than a hint of what we face today. We were the audience/participants watching re-runs of 9/11 as our sense of invulnerability; our egos; temporarily crumbled. Those we bomb get the same "audience participation." Our reforming sense of self; hopefully; will minimize the future "need" for shattering. It doesnt seem to be going that way; yet.
