The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society

The cover of Lippard's 1997 book features a photograph similar to this: a home afloat like a raft on the sea.

The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society is a 1997 study of the sense of place, by American author and 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship winner Lucy Lippard. The phrase, coined by Lippard, in this study refers to a sense of place that an individual can have about where she lives, or where he lived in his childhood.