CELEBRATING PLACEDNESS

A TRANSLATEABLE IDEA!

Environmental Planner

Speaking of England Sue Clifford , Angela King talk of a land of extraordinary variety, filled with unique buildings, captivating landscapes, and diverse people and wildlife. But like most 'places' this diversity is under siege. Mass production, increased mobility, and the forceful promotion of corporate identity have brought with them standardized stores, farms, factories, and front doors. Filled with the most distinctive tidbits of English culture past and present, places are threatened, species are going extinct.

Places need more care or we risk losing our placedness. It is said that you take away our wallets full of money you have nothing of value steal our 'places and our placedness' then you have everything that really matters! We do not own places, we occupy them and beong to them. We are obliged to treat the places we belong to with UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD UPR  The doctors and nurses who care for us do this for us. We need to care for our places in the way our doctors and nurses care for us no IFS ... NO buts..

Author and radio producer Tim Dee has published Ground Work, a collection of writing on new and enduring cultural landscapes in Britain, drawing on the very best of the current flowering of nature writing as well as other original non-fiction.... Ground Work comes thirty years after Common Ground’s ground-breaking Second Nature, a collection edited by Richard Mabey (with Sue Clifford and Angela King) and published by Cape in 1984 .... Click here to go to source