Handmade urbanism : from community initiatives to participatory models : Mumbai, São Paulo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Cape Town / / organized/edited by Marcos L. Rosa, Ute E. Weiland ; with Ana Álvarez [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : Jovis, , [2014]; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1216091724
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Developing countries
• Soggetto non controllato: Bombay; Bürgerbeteiligung; Infrastruktur; Istanbul; Kapstadt; Lebensbedingungen, Metropolen; Mexiko (Stadt); Nachhaltigkeit; Partizipation; Schwellenländer; Soziale Bewegung; Stadtplanung; São Paulo; Verstädterung
• Persona (resp. second.): RosaMarcos L.; WeilandUte E.; AlvarezAna
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Acknowledgements; Index; Introduction; Introductory Interview Returning to the Roots; Initial Thoughts Make the Invisible Visible; Foreword The Community: Richard Sennett; Editorial An Urban Trend: Residents Taking Ownership of their Environment; Five Cities; Introduction to Five Cities; Mumbai; Mumbai Waterfronts Center; Triratna Prerana Mandal; Urban Design Research Institute; Dreams, Dignity, and Changing Realities: The Story of a Community Toilet; Network, Intermediate, Integrate: Reaching out to the Grassroots; Elastic Urbanism: Sustainability and Informality in the City ; Making Voices Heard: Art and ActivismDemocratizing Public Space; São Paulo; Union Building; ACAIA Institute; Biourban; Workshops as a Communication Facilitator: Understanding Community Needs; Preexistence in Socially Vulnerable Areas; Scaling Up Micro Actions; ""How to Live Together""; The Challenge of Derelict and Residual Spaces. Is Anyone Thinking on the Local Level?; Istanbul; Music for Peace; Nurtepe First Step Cooperative; Children of Hope-Youth House; Presence and Vision of a Grass Roots Initiative; New Planning Approaches for Building Up Cities; Action and Participation in Planning ; Curating Artists and Cultural PracticesAdvocating Sustainable and Participatory Models; Mexico City; Miravalle Community Council; Cultural Center Consejo Agrarista; Recovering Spaces for Life; Weaving Efforts: Working for the Common Good; Reality Surpasses Us: We Need to Be More Flexible and Porous; Unfolding New Professional Profiles for Bottom-up Urban Planning; Cultural Acupuncture over the City; Braiding the Physical and the Social: A New Social Contract for the City; Cape Town; Mothers Unite; Rocklands Urban Abundance Center; Thrive; Incidental Urban Acupuncture ; Breaking it Down to Build it UpReimagining the City from a Different Viewpoint; Lighting the Fire within Us; Going Local: The Lavender Hill Area; Common Points; Four Interviews: Five Cities, One Gaze; The Significance of Space in Urban Society; Reporting from Local Initiatives; Cities are an Expression of Human Needs; Focus on Results: Attention to Real Needs; Project Categories, Programs and Common Clouds; Final Considerations; Credits; Imprint; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Menschen interessieren sich für die Städte, in denen sie leben. Mit der weltweit zunehmenden Verstädterung wächst auch das Engagement der Bürger für „ihre“ Stadt. Fernab von traditioneller Stadtplanung nutzen sie ihre eingeschränkten Ressourcen und finden Lösungsansätze für die Herausforderungen in ihrem unmittelbaren Umfeld. Auf diese Weise schaffen sie soziale Infrastrukturen, die die Lebensbedingungen der Bewohner nachhaltig verbessern. Handmade Urbanism präsentiert 15 beispielhafte Projekte aus eher strukturschwachen Stadtvierteln in fünf Schwellenländern und untersucht dabei, welches Potenzial diese in Eigeninitiative entwickelten Projekte für den gesamtstädtischen Transformationsprozess haben. Wie sehen solche Initiativen „an der Basis“ aus, welcher Instrumente und Werkzeuge bedienen sie sich? Funktionsweise und Organisationsprozess der Projekte aus insgesamt fünf Metropolen werden anschaulich mittels Illustrationen dargestellt. Interviews mit Experten, Akteuren und Interessensvertretern beleuchten deren Bedeutung für die jeweiligen lokalen Herausforderungen. Im weltweiten Vergleich werden Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten deutlich und nicht zuletzt übergreifende Lösungsansätze offenbar. Handmade Urbanism schildert, wie ein zeitgemäßes urbanes Leitbild aussehen könnte, das partizipative Initiativen fördert und deren Potenziale zugleich für den gesamtstädtischen Kontext – zum Vorteil aller – nutzt.; People have always been interested in the cities in which they live. With the world‘s stark urbanization, the engagement of citizens to improve their urban environments is also growing. Far from the traditional urban planning culture, they make use of limited resources, offering solutions to face the challenges these cities offer. They focus on the provision of social infrastructure aiming to improve the living conditions of the residents at the local scale. Handmade Urbanism showcases 15 projects realized mostly in less favored areas of five major cities in emerging countries, examining the potential of urban transformation embedded in community initiatives. What is the basis for such initiatives? Which are the instruments and tools they use? Illustrations depict their operational modes, reveal the actors involved and trace the steps they made in the organization of the initiatives. Interviews with experts, actors and different stakeholders clarify their meaning towards the local challenges. At a global level, common threads and differences are made clear. Handmade Urbanism drafts a possible urban vision of the city impacted by those processes and organizes a discussion that promotes participatory initiatives while exploring their potential to impact on the city at large – to the benefit of all.
• Titolo autorizzato: Handmade urbanism
• ISBN: 3-86859-887-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910163017403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II