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How spaces become places : place makers tell their stories / edited by John F. Forester.

"A diverse set of place makers describe how they transformed contested or empty "spaces" into vibrant and functional "places." Spanning four countries and ten U.S. locales, these projects range from building affordable housing, to community building in the aftermath of racia...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Forester, John, 1948- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New Village Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
City planning.
Urban policy.
Urban renewal.
Place attachment.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Place Making, Not Plan Making--Learning from What Takes Place
  • PART ONE: DESIGN, COLLABORATION, AND OWNERSHIP
  • 1. Affordable Housing, Ethnicity, and the Construction of Place: Michael Pyatok's Practice Story
  • 2. Engaging Communities with Expertise and Accountability: Al Zelinka's Practice Story
  • 3. "Absolutely Not. That's Public Space, So Nobody Can Use It": Mark Lakeman's Practice Story
  • 4. Bridging Minnesota and Wisconsin with Twenty-Eight Stakeholders: Michael Hughes's Practice Story
  • PART TWO: ENGAGEMENT AND DIFFERENCE IN PLACE MAKING
  • 5. Dispute Resolution, Deliberation, and Racial Violence: Karen Umemoto's Practice Story
  • 6. Developing the Red Hook Community Justice Center: James Brodick's Practice Story
  • 7. Community, Belonging, and Place Making: Father Philip Sumner's Practice Story
  • 8. Listening, Accountability, and Self-Determination: Malik Yakini's Practice Story
  • PART THREE: ART, IMAGINATION, AND VALUE CREATION
  • 9. Public Art, Economic Development, and the Origins of WaterFire: Barnaby Evans's Practice Story
  • 10. Place, Identity, and Rituals of Turning Space into Place: Wendy Sarkissian's Practice Story
  • 11. Giving Paris a Green Hand: Laurence Baudelet's Practice Story
  • 12. Creating ARTWalk--Organizing, Inventing, and Creating Value: Doug Rice's Practice Story
  • 13. Cultivating the Arts in New York Mills: John Davis's Practice Story
  • Conclusion: Collaboration, Difference, and Imagination in Processes of Place Making
  • Afterword: The Relevance of These Place Makers' Stories in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement
  • Appendix 1: Overview of Community Development and Crime Prevention, New York Center for Court Innovation
  • Appendix 2: On Optimism
  • Appendix 3: Interviewees, Interviewers, and Dates and Approvals of Interviews
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors' Information
  • Index.

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