The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

ISBN-13: 9781844078035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str.

Nabeel Hamdi

Opis

From the author of Small Change comes this engaging 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 any context. Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by practitioners when working to improve the communities, lives and livelihoods of people the world over. This title shows how these complexities are a context for, rather than a barrier to, creative work. The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community also critiques the single vision top down approach to design and planning. Using examples of successful professional practice across Europe, the US, Africa, Latin America and post-tsunami Asia, the author demonstrates how good policy can derive from good practices when reasoned backwards, as well as how plans can emerge in practice without a preponderance of planning. Reasoning backwards is shown to be a more effective and inclusive way of planning forwards with significant improvements to the quality of process and place. Nabeel Hamdi offers a variety of methods and tools for analyzing the issues, engaging with communities and other stakeholders for design and settlement planning and for improving the skills of all involved in placemaking. Ultimately the book serves as an inspiring guide, and a distillation of decades of practical wisdom and experience. The resulting practical handbook is for all those involved in doing, learning and teaching placemaking and urban development world-wide.

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