| Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets Contributor(s): Arefi, Mahyar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415724368 ISBN-13: 9780415724364 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $199.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 304.141 |
| LCCN: 2013042863 |
| Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.79 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants. "Place matters" has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and urban design, geography, and sociology to name a few. While conceptualized narrowly by individual disciplines, a holistic framework of placemaking is sorely missing. Mahyar Arefi seeks to fill this gap by exploring these questions: how are places physically created, socially mobilized, and politically contested? This book explores three competing approaches to placemaking: need-based, opportunity-based, and asset-based. Using a case study approach, the book delves into each paradigm and its stages of physical formation, social mobilization, and political contestation. |
