Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life

By Colin Ellard

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

Cognitive neuroscientist Colin Ellard explores how homes, workplaces, cities, nature and virtual spaces shape our thoughts, emotions and physical responses, from parks and sacred sites to casinos and crowded rooms. Drawing on lab and field research into places of affection, awe, anxiety and boredom, he asks what kinds of environments we should build as technology changes how we experience place. Bellevue Literary Press published the 2015 study.

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