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On-Line Articles by David Seamon

The following articles by David Seamon are available on the Web. A complete list of his articles can be found below (chapters from books by Seamon can be found under "books" on his home page).

2008    Place, Placelessness, Insideness, and Outsideness in Filmmaker John Sayles' Sunshine State

2007    A Lived Hermetic of People and Place: Phenomenology and Space Syntax [keynote paper, 6th International Space Syntax Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2007]

2007    Interconnections, Relationships, and Environmental Wholes: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds

2004    Grasping the Dynamism of Urban Place: Contributions from the Work of Christopher Alexander, Bill Hillier, and Daniel Kemmis

2003    Connections that Have a Quality of Necessity: Goethe's Way of Science as a Phenomenology of Nature

2002    A World More Robust and Kind: The First Volume in Christopher Alexander's "The Nature of Order"

2000     Phenomenology, Place, Environment, and Architecture: A Review of the Literature

2000    Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling: The Contributions of T. Thiis-Evensen & C. Alexander

1999    Making Community & Place: Commonalities & Contrasts in the Work of D. Kemmis & C. Alexander

1996    A Singular Impact: Edward Relph's Place and Placelessness

1993    Different Worlds Coming Together: A Phenomenology of Relationship as Portrayed in Doris Lessing's  Diaries of Jane Somers

1993    The Life of the Place: A Phenomenological Commentary  On Bill Hillier’s Theory of Space Sytax

1993  "Seeing with New Eyes": Phenomenology and the New Millennium"

1990    Toward a Phenomenology of Belonging: The New York Photographs of André Kertész

Complete List of Articles by David Seamon

2004   Grasping the Dynamism of Urban Place: Contributions from the Work of Christopher Alexander, Bill Hillier, and Daniel Kemmis, to be published in Tom Mels, editor, Understanding Place, forthcoming.

2002   Physical Comminglings: Body, Habit, and Space Transformed into Place, The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 22: 42S-51S.

2000   A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research. In S. Wapner, J. Demick, T. Yamamoto

          and H Minami (Eds.), Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research (pp. 157-78).  New York: Plenum.

2000   Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling: The Contributions of Thomas Thiis-Evensen and Christopher    Alexander, in Building and Dwelling [Bauen und Wohnen], edited by Eduard Führ. Munich, Germany: Waxmann Verlag GmbH; New York: Waxmann, 2000, pp. 189-202.

1998  Goethe, Nature, and Phenomenology: An Introduction, in Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature.

1997   Behavioral Geography [Phenomenology and], in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Lester Embree et al., eds. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), in press [an international encyclopedia on the history and practice of phenomenology; includes entries by some 100 contributors--all key figures in phenomenological research].

1996   To Open Feeling: Phenomenology, Emotional Experience, and Humane Habitats, Laboratorio di Geografia e Letteratura [Studies in Geography and Literature], 1 (1): 15-21.

1994   The Life of the Place: A Phenomenological Commentary on Bill Hillier's Theory of Space Syntax, Nordisk Arkitekturforskning [Nordic Journal of Architectural Research], 7, 1: 35-48.

1994   A Thiis-Evensen Interpretation of Two Churches by Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright (co-authored with Yuan Lin), in R. M. Feldman, G. Hardie, and D. G. Saile, eds., Power by Design: EDRA Proceedings 24, Oklahoma City: Environmental Design Research Association, pp. 130-142.

1993   Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: An Introduction, in Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a Phenomenol­ogical Ecology, pp. 1-21, [see books above].

1993    Promoting a Foundational Ecology Practically Through Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language: The Example of Meadowcreek (co-authored with Gary J. Coates), in Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a Phenomenol­ogical Ecology, pp. 331-55, [see books above].

1993    Different Worlds Coming Together: A Phenomenology of Relationship as Portrayed in Doris Lessing's Diaries of Jane Somers, in Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a Phenomenol­ogical Ecology, pp. 219-46, [see books above].

1992    A Diary Interpretation of Place: Artist Frederic Church's Olana, in Geographical Snapshots of North America, edited by Donald G. Janelle. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 78-82 [a collection of 93 essays commemorating the 27th Congress of the International Geographical Union and Assembly in Washington, D. C., August].

1991    Toward a Phenomenology of Citiness: Kevin Lynch's Image of the City and Beyond, National Geographical Journal of India, 37 (March-June): 178-188.

1991    Toward a Phenomenology of the Architectural Lifeworld, in Architecture: Back..to...Life (Proceedings of the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), edited by John Hancock & William Miller. Wash., D. C.: ACSA Press, pp. 3-7.

1990    Architecture, Experience, and Phenomenology: Toward Reconciling Order and Freedom, paper no. 1, Person-Environment Theory Series, edited by R. Ellis. Berkeley: Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California, Berkeley.

1990    Using Pattern Language to Identify Sense of Place: American Landscape Painter Frederic Church's Olana as a Test Case, in Coming of Age: Proceedings, EDRA, 1990, edited by R. Selby. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, pp. 171-179.

1990    Awareness and Reunion: A Phenomenology of the Person-Environment Relationship as Portrayed in the New York Photographs of André Kertész, in Place Images in the Media, edited by Leo Zonn. Totowa, New Jersey: Roman and Littlefield, pp. 87-107.

1989    Humanistic and Phenomenological Advances in Environmental Design: The Case of Genius Loci, The Humanistic Psychologist, 17 (Autumn): 280-293.

1988   Towards a Phenomenology of Environmental Meaning: The Example of Flowforms, The National Geographical Journal of India [special issue on Environmental Meaning and Aesthetics], 34 (March): 65-74.

1987    Phenomenology and the Clark Experience, Journal of Environmental Psychology [special issue on Clark University as a center of innovation for research in environment and behavior], 7 (December, 1987): 367-377.

1987    Phenomenology and Environment‑Behavior Research, in Gary T. Moore and

            Ervin Zube, eds., Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design, vol. 1. New York: Plenum, pp. 3-27.

1987    Phenomenology and Vernacular Lifeworlds, in David Saile, ed., Architecture in Cultural Change. Lawrence, Kansas: School of Architecture, University of Kansas,pp. 17‑24 [reprinted in The Trumpeter, 8, 4 (Fall 1991): 201-206].

1987    Christopher Alexander and the Nature of Architecture, Orion Nature Quarterly, 6, (Spring): 20‑33 (co-authored with Gary J. Coates and Susanne Siepl).

1985    Dwelling, Place and Environment: An Introduction, co‑authored with Robert Mugerauer, in David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer, eds., Dwelling, Place and Environment [see books above], pp. 1‑12.

1985    Reconciling Old and New Worlds: The Dwelling‑Journey Relationship as Portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg's "Emigrant" Novels, in David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer, eds., Dwelling, Place and Environment [see books above], pp. 227‑245.

1984    Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling and One Concrete Interpretation as Indicated by Hassan Fathy's Architecture for the Poor, Geosciences and Man, 24 (April): 43‑53.

1984    Emotional Experience of the Environment, American Behavioral Scientist, 27 (July/August): 757‑770.

1984    Phenomenologies of Place and Environment, Phenomenology and Pedagogy, 2: 130‑135.

1984    Toward a Phenomenology of Place and Place‑Making: Interpreting Landscape, Lifeworld and Aesthetics (co‑authored with Gary J. Coates), Oz, 6 (May): 6‑9.

1984    Philosophical Directions in Behavioral Geography with an Emphasis on the Phenomenological Contribution, in Environmental Perception and Behavior: Inventory and Prospect, co‑edited with Thomas Saarinen and James Sell. Chicago: University of Chicago Department of Geography Series, No. 209, pp. 167‑178.

1983    Creativity: Center and Horizon, in Anne Buttimer, ed., Creativity and Context (Lund, Sweden: Gleerup), pp. 54‑64. 

1983    A Soft‑Spoken Hero: The Phenomenological Contribution to Architectural Education, in N. Harm and J. Kudra, eds. Proceedings: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, West Central Regional Conference, 1982 (Norman: University of Oklahoma College of Environmental Design, 1983), pp. 128‑136.

1982    The Phenomenological Contribution to Environmental Psychology, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2 (June): 119‑140.

1982    Heidegger, Environment and Dwelling, Environment and Planning A, 14 (March): 419‑423.

1981    Newcomers, Existential Outsiders and Insiders: Their Portrayal in Two Books by Doris Lessing, in D.C.D. Pocock, ed., Humanistic Geography and Literature (London: Croom Helm), pp. 85‑100.

1980    Market Place as Place Ballet: A Swedish Example (co‑authored with Christina Nordin), Landscape 24 (October): 35‑41.

1980    Body Ballets, Time‑space Routines and Place Ballets, in The Human Experience of Space and Place [see books above], pp. 146‑65.

1980    Afterward: Community, Place and Environment, in The Human Experience of Space and Place [see books above], pp. 188‑96.

1979    Phenomenology, Geography and Geographic Education, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 3 (Autumn): 40‑50.

1978    Goethe's Approach to the Natural World: Implications for Environmental Theory and Education, in David Ley and Marwyn Samuels, eds., Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems (Chicago: Maaroufa Press), pp. 238‑50.

1976   Phenomenological Investigation of Imaginative Literature, in G.T. Moore and R.G. Golledge, eds., Environmental Knowing: Theories, Research, and Methods (Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchison and Ross) pp. 286‑90.

1976    Extending the Man‑Environment Relationship: Wordsworth and Goethe's Experience of the Natural World, Monadnock, 50: 38‑50.

1975    The Phenomenological Investigation of Lived‑Space, Monadnock, 49: 38‑45.

1972   Environmental Imagery: An Overview and Tentative Ordering, in W.J. Mitchell, ed., Environmental Design: Research and Practice (Los Angeles: School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles) pp. 7‑1‑1‑‑7‑1‑7.

 

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