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.)
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Reviewed on: 09/30/1991
Genre: Nonfiction