The Power of Place by Winifred Gallagher
Published 1993 · 240 pages · 85,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Arts & Culture, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science & Nature
How hard is The Power of Place to read?
The Power of Place scores 18 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 28 out of 100
- Scientific and psychological terminology. Accessible to general readers.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Abstraction: 32 out of 100
- Research findings grounded in concrete examples.
- Information density: 45 out of 100
- Dense with research citations and cross-disciplinary evidence.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Thematic chapters building a cumulative argument.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Analytical rather than symbolic.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- Straightforward science reporting.
- Resolution withholding: 100 out of 100
- Research provides clear design implications.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Thematic chapters organized by environmental factor.
How The Power of Place is regarded
The Power of Place holds a literary regard score of 33 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.