Exploring The Connections Between
People & Places

• For urban planners, architects, landscape artists, builders, and students
• Connects the fields of architecture and psychology
• More than 150 illustrations
• Design process of award-winning architect explored

This book explores the connections between people and places. The unique perspective that arises out of the co-authors' separate backgrounds as architect and child psychiatrist provides a groundbreaking treatise on the effects of place on people.

Through the study of what makes a person, drawing on Erikson's work, the book explores our early and lifelong needs and then relates these needs to places. It shows how places and people are tied together by describing the design process of three different types of places. Finally, it looks to the present state of place making, its precedents from the past, and the rapid cultural changes that leave us without precedents for the postindustrial electronic age. The Myers suggest that, as we look to the future, we need to value the past so we can make harmonious and continuous communities that are places for people in the future.

This book was written for those engaged in making places - urban planners, housewives, architects, politicians, builders, students, or simply those people who want to understand their deep connection to a place or places.