cover image The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing with Our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside

The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing with Our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside

Tony Hiss. Vintage Books USA, $13 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73594-6

Elements of environmentalism and urban and regional planning inform Hiss's on-site responses to Manhattan landmarks, Maine's north woods, Great Britain's protected landscapes and Frankfurt's open spaces. ``His revelatory odyssey is an invitation to stop, look, linger--and preserve what is life-enhancing in the environment,'' said PW. Illustrated. (Oct.)