Books on Place

Poetry
  • Basho, The Narrow Way to the North
  • Mary Oliver, New and Collected Poems
  • Mary Oliver, What Do We Know
  • Gary Snyder, Mountains and Rivers Without End

Non-fiction, general

  • Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
  • John Brinckerhoff Jackson, The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics
  • John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
  • Robert L. Thayer, Jr., Life Place: Bioregional Thought and Practice
  • Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
  • Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
  • John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places

Non-fiction, regional

  • Elias Chacour, We Belong to the Land
  • Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
  • Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
  • Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin, Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream
  • John Elder, Reading the Mountains of Home
  • Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
  • Jan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
  • David Robertson, The Narrow Way to Nearby
  • John Stilgoe, Alongshore
  • William Least-Heat Moon, Prairy Erth: A Deep Map

Non-fiction, history

  • Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
  • William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
  • William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
  • John Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845
  • Steven Mithen, After the Ice

For a voluminous bibliography of academic work on place and space, maintained by a philosophy professor in Canada, see http://www.augustana.ca/~janzb/place/ --Allan

This has now moved to http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/ -- Ian

Also see WebResourcesOnPlace.