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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458821403321

Autore

Hamdi Nabeel

Titolo

The placemaker's guide to building community / / Nabeel Hamdi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Earthscan, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-54097-0

1-282-72654-4

9786612726545

1-84977-517-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Tools for community planning The placemakers' guide to building community

Disciplina

720.1/03

Soggetti

Community development - Developing countries

Economic development - Developing countries

Human settlements - Developing countries

City planning - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Prologue; 1. The Evolution of Development and the Placemaker's Tools; Part I: Place, Time and Clutter: Learning from Practice Reflection: Listening to Communicate; 2. The Bad, the Good and the Ugly; 3. Profiling Vulnerability; Part II: Placemaking and the Architecture of Opportunity Reflection: Getting Answers to Questions You Don't Ask - Anshu Sharma; Introduction to Part II; 4. Toolkits; 5. Knowledge; 6. Participation in Practice

7. Interventions: Site Plans and House Plans, Buffaloes and MushroomsPart III: Placemakers: Responsible Practice and the Question of Scale Reflection: The Invisible Stakeholder - Charles Parrack; Introduction to Part III; 8. PEAS and the Sociable Side of 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



- Rumana Kabir; 14. The Interventions Studio; 15. The Placemaker's Code; Notes and References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is 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 any context.