Deconstructing Placemaking

Needs, Opportunities, and Assets

von Mahyar Arefi

154 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Kunst Architektur Landschaftsarchitektur und -gestaltung Stadtplanung und Architektur
• ISBN: 9780415724364
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2014
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Routledge