Alison B. Kennedy
Teacher Resources
Tuan,Yi-Fu,
Space and Place
(1978) this book has wonderful insight into how we relate to place. It has an entire chapter devoted to children and how the relate to place.
Rusk,David,
Cities without Suburbs
(Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003)
Von Hoffman, Alexander,
House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
(Oxford University Press, 2003) An interesting look at how a variety of urban neighborhoods reinvented themselves and rejuvenated their communities through local grassroots efforts.
Alana Arnold and Melnick, Robert, editors,
Preserving Cultural Landscapes
(Johns Hopkins, 1999)
Hayden, Dolores,
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
(The MIT Press 1995)
Hayden ,Dolores,
Building Suburbia: Greenfields and Urban Growth
(vintage books, a division of Random House, Inc. New York, 2003)
Whiston Spirn Anne,
The Language of Landscape
, (Yale University Press, 1998)
,
Strand ,Mark and Evan Boland,
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
(W.W. Norton, 2000)
Weisbart, Jodi,
Joyful Ways to Teach Young Children to Write Poetry,
(Scholastic, 2001)
Student Resources
Literature about Place
Burton ,Virginia Lee,
The Little House
, (Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1942 renewed 1969)
Hoberman ,Mary Ann,
A House is a House for Me,
(Puffin Books 1982) Not only a wonderful book about the relationships between people, animals, things to places but also in a rhyming form that is much like poetry.
Viorst , Judith,
Alexander, Who's Not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to move,
(First Aladdin Paperbacks, 1995) A book with whimsical repetition that talks about ones child's difficulty with leaving the places and community he considers home. My students were able to make real connections to Alexander when we read this aloud in class.
Lomas Garza ,Carmen,
A Piece of my Heart/ Pedacito de mi Corazon: The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza
(Laguna Gloria Art Museum, 1991)
Lomas Garza ,Carmen,
In My Family/ En Mi Familia
( Children's Book Press, 1996)
Yolen , Jane,
Letting Swift River Go
(Little, Brown and Company, 1992)
Works Cited
1. Whiston Spirn ,Anne,
The Language of Landscape
( Yale University Press, 1998) p.5
2. Herndon, Peter Neal(1979) New Haven's Hill Neighborhood. Yale New Haven's Teacher's Institute, Volume III. Retrieved April 19, 2005 from /curriculumunits/1973/3/
3. Gogola, Tom(2004 November 11). Soul Survivor: The second coming of the Hill's Dellie Hoskie. New Haven Advocate News. Retrieved April 19th, 2005 from http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid+oid:89044
4. Rusk,David,
Cities without Suburbs
(Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003) p. 5-22
5. Author unknown, retrieved April 19th 2005 from http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/history
