agoraphilia

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.

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.

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".

This agoraphilia, this altitudinous, map-maker's vision is with him from start to finish of his life's work.

The administration's philosophy might be described as "agoraphilia": love of the marketplace. It was summed up in the 1985 budget: "This strategy recognizes that most of the decisions about using and producing energy in this country are made by millions of individuals ..."