The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

ISBN-13: 9781844078028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

Nabeel Hamdi

Opis

A guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in various contexts. It also critiques the single vision top down approach to design and planning.

Spis treści

Prologue  1. The Evolution of Development and the Placemakers' Tools – A Short Introduction  Part 1: Place, Time and Clutter – Learning from Practice Reflection: Listening to Communicate  2. The Bad, the Good, the Ugly  3. Profiling Vulnerability Part 2: Placemaking and the Architecture of Opportunity Reflection – Getting Answers to Questions You Don't Ask  4. Toolkits  5. Knowledge 6. Participation in Practice  7. Interventions: Site Plans and House plans, Buffaloes and Mushrooms  Part 3: Placemakers – Responsible Practice and the Question of Scale Reflection: The Invisible Stakeholder  8. PEAS: About Sociable Practice  9. Reasoning to Scale  10. Targeting Constraints  11. Learning and Communication  12. Reducing Dependency, Cultivating Ownership  13. Building Livelihoods  Part IV: Teaching Reflection – The Mess of Practice  14. The Intervention Studio  15. The Placemakers Code.  Notes and References