Table of Contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Elusive imprints
  5. PART ONE  The field
  6. 1      The whereabouts of play
  7. Everywhere
  8. Spheres of action
  9. Field and stage
  10. The Canon
  11. The primeval
  12. Field and square
  13. Skin and precincts
  14. 2      Formal and relational traits
  15. Scale
  16. Topology
  17. Topography
  18. Symmetry
  19. Perspectival alignments
  20. The informal and the formless
  21. 3      Material
  22. The lawn
  23. Sand and snow
  24. Water
  25. 4      Locational attributes
  26. Orientation
  27. Adaptations
  28. Clustering: couplings and mosaics
  29. The near formal
  30. Site specific
  31. 5      Park and amusement park
  32. PART TWO  Players
  33. 6      The athlete
  34. Introduction
  35. Cells and arenas
  36. Bucolic deportments
  37. 7      The child
  38. Introduction
  39. The sky
  40. The street
  41. Anywhere
  42. Tumuli
  43. Displacements
  44. Ludic cores
  45. Future imperfect
  46. Stillness and the miniature
  47. Statuary: action and the immobile
  48. 8      Back to order
  49. The school
  50. The campus
  51. 9      The citizen
  52. The return of Homo Ludens
  53. Paideia’s revenge
  54. Final Remarks
  55. Notes
  56. Bibliography
  57. Index
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