agoraphilia
The love of public life, crowds, and activity.
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First, the Athenians suffered from an acute case of agoraphilia. They seemed to center a large portion of their daily lives around the activities of the public gathering places; hence, the temples and the agora would be the most likely places at which the relatives might see the slayer.
The love of wide open empty spaces.
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Its spacious market places, with their architectural colonnades, and its suburban gymnasia, ringed by trees, evidence not agoraphobia but agoraphilia — love of openness — wherever it was possible.
The love of the exotic and new.
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If it is also a disguised form of agoraphilia, a desire of other other places, it follows that the arena of its poetics is public space and its re-imagining".
A global perspective; a viewpoint that seeks to encompass the world.
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This agoraphilia, this altitudinous, map-maker's vision is with him from start to finish of his life's work.
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly”) + φιλία (philía, “love”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry agoraphilia (CC BY-SA 4.0).