Casey’s work reawakens why PLACE for millennia was central to our lived experience. His point is obvious and until now overlooked. We ‘unlearned’ PLACE in the Industrial Age, when it no longer fit our purposes. But in our displacement in…Read More

Temporarily things are worse because the institutions currently in place now were developed in the transition to the Industrial Age, they need to adapt or be replaced. As historians and Wordsworth can attest, the Industrial Age was disruptive in its…Read More

Globalism is spurring on what might seem to be its opposite – localism.  The construction of a “new localism” varies from place to place, often based on perceived loss or perceived opportunity. For some, it’s remembering civic pride as an…Read More

There needs to be more in the 'localism' toolbox than local pride and buying from local businesses, right? Civic pride and local business promotion are often components of localism, but clearly not enough. However, for some places, a process of…Read More