Although I’ve studied the psychology and biology of space for many years, it wasn’t until more recently that I realized how fully our everyday lives are permeated by the problems of space -- understanding our place, finding our way, seeing the spatial connections between the places we know well and the those we only read about in books or see in the news.

My book, entitled Where Am I? in Canada and You Are Here in the US, will be published by Harper Collins Canada in April 2009 and Doubleday in the US in July 2009. It places the human preoccupation with space into psychological, philosophical, and anthropological context.

Not only this, but it might help you to understand how best to arrange the furniture in your house, why we find golf courses so attractive, and what we can do to help our children re-connect with natural spaces.

Watch this site (especially the blog) for updates on the progress of the book.