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‘The author has done a very meaningful and insightful job addressing “place,” which is always difficult to portray and unpack because of its ineffable dimensions, ethos and character.’

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Douglas Kelbaugh, FAIA FCNU 2016 Topaz Laureate

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'Connecting People, Place and Design is a wide-ranging essay on urban design, mostly in Australia, which examines human relationships with place. It is philosophically grounded in the Western tradition, from Heidegger through to Edward Casey, but then explores how that conceptual architecture has changed and evolved in its significance over time. [...] Asking different humans (and even non-humans, who are not just externalities) to find ways of living together, to describe their concerns and what matters to them, is part of the ongoing process of designing a future together. In her book, Edmonds has set out a very useful way to do this, and it even concludes with a series of principles, making it an excellent urban planner’s guidebook to participatory community-based work.'

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Stephen Muecke, Human Geography