Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nature in Space
Chapter 2. Places of Affection
Chapter 3. Places of Lust
Chapter 4. Boring Places
Chapter 5. Places of Anxiety
Chapter 6. Places of Awe
Chapter 7. Space and Technology I: The World in a Machine
Chapter 8. Space and Technology II: The Machine in the World
Conclusions: Coming Home Again
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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Significant bound galley printing for media and booksellers.
Additional bound galley giveaways at Book Expo America and the
American Library Association Annual conference. eGalley
distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through
Edelweiss
National print, public radio, and online campaigns, including a
special focus on popular science, psychology, travel, technology,
and architecture and design outlets. We will also seek high-profile
author op-ed placements around the time of publication
Tour will include at least two residencies and walking tours (at
Pioneer Works in Brooklyn and at Urbanspace galley in Toronto,
Sept./Oct. 2015), with more TBD, and an author presentation at the
Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) conference (La
Jolla, CA; Sept. 2015)
Postcards available
Possible promotion through the Scientific American book club
Academic marketing plans include Consortium Required Reading
newsletter advertising and development of supplementary teaching
resources, including a practical guide with exercises related to
the book’s content that will be available for free online and
regularly updated
Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing
Blurbs possible from authors Esther M. Sternberg, Charles
Montgomery, Nicholas Humphrey, and Susan Pinker as well as Maria
Nicanor, Curator of the BMW Guggenheim Lab and Associate Curator,
Architecture at the Guggenheim Museum; David van der Leer,
Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute; Ethan Kent, Senior
Vice President, Project for Public Spaces; and Robert Gifford,
Director of the Environmental, Social, and Personality Psychology
Lab at the University of Victoria, editor of the Journal of
Environmental Psychology, and former President of the Environmental
Psychology division of the International Association of Applied
Psychology
Promotion through the author’s website (www.colinellard.com) and
Psychology Today blog as well as BLP’s social media networks and
website (www.blpress.org)
Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A
Literary Light
Colin Ellard, who works at the intersection of neuroscience and architectural and environmental design, is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall and Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). He has published scientific work in international journals in North America, Europe, and Asia for the past twenty-five years and has also contributed to the public discussion of environmental psychology through his work with museums and the media. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, Ellard lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
Praise for Places of the Heart
Library of Science Book Club selection
Discover magazine What to Read” selection
Book Riot Small Press Book to Read” selection
A really great book.” IRA FLATOW, Science Friday
A great read.” RUDY MAXA, Rudy Maxa’s World
From Neolithic monuments that awe to playground casinos’ that
empty wallets, Ellard argues that a scientific understanding of how
our surroundings affect us must be the foundation on which we build
the cities and homes of tomorrow.” Discover
Meshing recent findings with thoughtful appraisals of their
implications, Ellard looks at spaces and the awe, lust, boredom,
affection or anxiety that they trigger. He is richly insightful,
particularly on digital encroachments into the experience of
place.” Nature
Wide-ranging and absorbing. . . . Powerfully and comprehensively
written. . . . An exceptional introduction to a vital part of the
human experience.” Colorado Review
Ellard breaks down psychological and neurological information in
an accessible way. . . . Highly recommended.” Book Riot
Aren’t architects and urban planners trained to design buildings
and cities? Why should a psychologist have a say in this? Because
Ellard brings tools to the design board that should help ensure
more positive responses to urban environment, from a mundane
alleyway to an awe-inspiring cathedral or city hall. . . . Places
of the Heart should stimulate debate about how our cities are
shaped and how they shape us.” Waterloo Region Record
Ellard shows that simple distinctions between nature and culture
tend to collapse where many modern technologies are concerned. . .
. Many of the trends with which Ellard engagessuch as virtual
reality technology that would allow individuals to live in a
curated, mediated, personalized, and highly commodified
bubblesound as if they were pulled from the pages of Ray
Bradburyesque science fiction.” Quill & Quire
If you care about your city and your happiness, read every page of
this fascinating book. Places of the Heart offers a thrilling
journey through the pathways of our cities and the human mind. This
is no flight of fancy. It’s an evidence-based exploration of how
the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies. Colin Ellard is
one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban
design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our
citiesand ourselves.” CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City:
Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
This beautifully written book grabs the reader from the start,
with personal stories from the author’s life interwoven with
history, archaeology, technology, and design.” ESTHER M.
STERNBERG, MD, author of Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and
Well-Being
Praise for Colin Ellard
One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” Los Angeles
Times
Delightfully lucid. . . . Ellard has a knack for distilling
obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” New York Times
Book Review
[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or
exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.”
NPR
[Ellard] entertain[s] us with an explanation of the cold, hard
science [and] artfully constructed exploration[s] of how our
relationship to spaces plays a huge part in making us human.”
Quill & Quire
Fascinating.” Globe and Mail
Smart.” Cleveland Plain Dealer
Delightful.” Publishers Weekly
Ellard writes with admirable clarity.” Kirkus Reviews
As an architect . . . [Ellard] took me on a journey to places I’d
never even considered before.” SARAH SUSANKA, author of The Not So
Big House
Praise for Places of the Heart
Library of Science Book Club selection
Discover magazine “What to Read” selection
Book Riot “Small Press Book to Read” selection
“A really great book.” —IRA FLATOW, Science Friday
“A great read.” —RUDY MAXA, Rudy Maxa’s World
“From Neolithic monuments that awe to `playground casinos’ that
empty wallets, Ellard argues that a scientific understanding of how
our surroundings affect us must be the foundation on which we build
the cities and homes of tomorrow.” —Discover
“Meshing recent findings with thoughtful appraisals of their
implications, Ellard looks at spaces and the awe, lust, boredom,
affection or anxiety that they trigger. He is richly insightful,
particularly on digital encroachments into the experience of
place.” —Nature
“Wide-ranging and absorbing. . . . Powerfully and comprehensively
written. . . . An exceptional introduction to a vital part of the
human experience.” —Colorado Review
“Ellard breaks down psychological and neurological information in
an accessible way. . . . Highly recommended.” —Book Riot
“Aren’t architects and urban planners trained to design buildings
and cities? Why should a psychologist have a say in this? Because
Ellard brings tools to the design board that should help ensure
more positive responses to urban environment, from a mundane
alleyway to an awe-inspiring cathedral or city hall. . . . Places
of the Heart should stimulate debate about how our cities are
shaped and how they shape us.” —Waterloo Region Record
“Ellard shows that simple distinctions between nature and culture
tend to collapse where many modern technologies are concerned. . .
. Many of the trends with which Ellard engages—such as virtual
reality technology that would allow individuals to live in a
curated, mediated, personalized, and highly commodified
bubble—sound as if they were pulled from the pages of Ray
Bradburyesque science fiction.” —Quill & Quire
“If you care about your city and your happiness, read every page of
this fascinating book. Places of the Heart offers a thrilling
journey through the pathways of our cities and the human mind. This
is no flight of fancy. It’s an evidence-based exploration of how
the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies. Colin Ellard is
one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban
design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our
cities—and ourselves.” —CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City:
Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“This beautifully written book grabs the reader from the start,
with personal stories from the author’s life interwoven with
history, archaeology, technology, and design.” —ESTHER M.
STERNBERG, MD, author of Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and
Well-Being
Praise for Colin Ellard
“One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles
Times
“Delightfully lucid. . . . Ellard has a knack for distilling
obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” —New York Times
Book Review
“[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or
exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.”
—NPR
“[Ellard] entertain[s] us with an explanation of the cold, hard
science [and] artfully constructed exploration[s] of how our
relationship to spaces plays a huge part in making us human.”
—Quill & Quire
“Fascinating.” —Globe and Mail
“Smart.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Delightful.” —Publishers Weekly
“Ellard writes with admirable clarity.” —Kirkus Reviews
“As an architect . . . [Ellard] took me on a journey to places I’d
never even considered before.” —SARAH SUSANKA, author of The Not So
Big House
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