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title: "Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America (New Atlantis Books) Hardcover – February 25, 2014"
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# Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America (New Atlantis Books) Hardcover – February 25, 2014

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- **What is this?** Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America (New Atlantis Books) Hardcover – February 25, 2014 by wilfred m. mcclayted v. mcallister
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## Customer Reviews

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    A must for the sentient.
  

*by W***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2014*

This collection deserves four stars, five withheld for only the few.Ah "place", the lamenting of which seems to be shared, though disproportionately, by both traditionalists and progressives.  I highlighted five of the seventeen essays as especially moving and certainly worth the entrance fee; the other twelve of high quality, but more specific and detailed rather than broad and philosophical.This apolitical collection of essays reminds us of what our highly transitory culture is sacrificing when its upwardly mobile choose to remain unrooted.  Herein is found smart critiques of cosmopolitanism as inherently inhuman and uninteresting along with powerful and persuasive cries for localism over centralism.  I find this work highly important and relevant; if you are like me and yearn for the more humane community of ancestral village life to be somehow, and admittedly impossibly, coupled with modern medicine, this collection can help make sense of the compromise we have made.

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    Intriguing Reads
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2016*

Intriguing. As someone who has moved many times, I found this little book of essays to be engaging and insightful. Inspired me to study the Philosophy of Place in more detail.

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    Excellent!
  

*by B***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2014*

An extremely important book, especially for our low information youth, in today's simplistic "I'm just a citizen of the world" culture.

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