商品簡介
"In Motion is a brilliant, mind-opening book that will change how you see your world. Tony Hiss takes you to places that are both out there and inside your own mind, and offers a strikingly new perspective on such basic questions as `What makes us human?' and `Why do we explore?' I recommend that you read it before you take another step."---Andrew Weil
IN MOTION The Experience of Travel
With a new foreword by Robert D. Yaro
Travel gives us "open-sesame" moments when we suddenly see even familiar surroundings with fresh eyes. The experience---Hiss calls it Deep Travel---can happen whether we're on a trek through the Khyber Pass or a trip to the mailbox. With stories of his own journeys and passages from celebrated travel writers, he makes the transcendental experience come alive
Simple techniques can unlock this hidden dimension, and planners can use these heightened perceptions to shape the built and natural environments. In Hiss's mind-opening account, ordinary landscapes---highways, train tracks, intersections---become as extraordinary as the first human settlements or the most dazzling and renowned streetscapes
In Motion opens new paths of understanding for urban and regional planners, architects and landscape architects, and everyone else involved in creating transportation systems and public spaces. It's a journey worth taking
作者簡介
Tony Hiss, author of The Experience of Place, was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than 30 years. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. The National Recreation and Park Association's National Literary Award praised Hiss for a lifetime of "spellbinding and poignant" writing about "how our environments, modes of travel, and other aspects of the American landscape affect our lives."
