ABSTRACT
Dissatisfied with the increasing homogeneity and soullessness of mid-twentieth-century urban spaces, a number of authors began investigating issues of space and place as a means of correction. In Part Two we examined how theorists approached these issues through normatively based theories to better guide design and physical outcomes. Some of the authors in Part Three approach the same manifest problems by trying to understand the relationship of personal experience to places. Other authors at the end of Part Three fall into existential description of the difficulties in doing so. While this volume’s body of literature explores the relationship between physical settings and human subjects, the focus in this part of the Reader is primarily on the physicality of the tangible world and our ability to design places that evoke a sense of place.
