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13.
The Meadows, and many other kid-friendly biophilic neighborhood designs, are described in Robin Moore and Clare Cooper Marcus’s chapter “Healthy Planet, Healthy Children: Designing Nature into the Daily Spaces of Childhood,” in
Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life
, edited by S. Kellert, J. H. Heerwagen, and M. L. Mador (Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, 2008), 153-204.

14.
Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter,
Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture
(MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2006). Some ideas about how to engage senses other than the visual in architectural design are contained in architect Juhani Pallasmaa’s seminal book
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
(Academy Editions: London, 2005).

15.
The Conflux Festival’s website is at
www.confluxfestival.org
. Polli’s
NYSoundmap
is described at
www.nysoundmap.org
.

16.
Stephen Jay Gould,
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
(Norton: New York, 1993).

1.
Michael Jones describes the philosophy and impact of Google Earth in his “Google’s Geospatial Organizing Principle,”
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
27, no. 4 (2007), 8-13.

2.
The Crisis in Darfur project can be found at
www.ushmm.org/googleearth/projects/darfur/
.

3.
An interesting book describing the recent history and use of mazes is
Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool
, by Lauren Artress (Riverhead Books: New York, 1995).

4.
Charlene Spretnak describes the relationship between the Chiapas revolution and the forces of globalization (along with several other interesting movements suggestive of a new appreciation for the importance of place) in her book
The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World
(HarperCollins Canada: Toronto, 1998).

5.
Alisa Smith leads the way with her
100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
(Random House: New York, 2007). Another initiative with similar motivations is Sarah Bongiorni’s
A Year without “Made in China”: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the Global Economy
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, 2007).

6.
Peter Mayle,
A Year in Provence
(Vintage: New York, 1991).

DOUBLE DAY

Copyright © 2009 by Colin Ellard

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Originally published in Canada as
Where Am I?
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ellard, Collin 1958-
You are here : why we can find our way to the moon but get lost in the mall / by
Collin Ellard—1st ed.
p.    cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Space perception. 2. Orientation (Physiology) 3. Orientation (Psychology) 4.
Animal orientation. I. Title
QP491.E45     2009
153.7’52—dc22
2009007822

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