Read more
Informationen zum Autor Katherine Melcher is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia's College of Environment and Design! U.S. Her research focuses on the interaction between design and community development-in particular! participatory processes in the design of community spaces. Her design work has been featured in Landscape Architecture! Designer/Builder! 1000x Landscape Architecture! and Architecture for Change.Barry L. Stiefel is an Associate Professor in the Historic Preservationand Communty Planning program at the College of Charleston! U.S. He is interested in how the sum of how local preservation efforts affects regional! national! and multi-national policies within the field of cultural resource management and heritage conservation. Dr. Stiefel has published numerous books and articles.Kristin Faurestworked asan Associate Professor in the Faculty of Landscape Architecture! Corvinus University of Budapest! Hungary! where she taught and researched in the areasof community-based planning! social justice in spatial planning! and the connections between culture and landscape. Last year she returned to her native U.S. to direct the Portland Japanese Garden's new International Institute for Japanese Garden Arts and Culture in Portland! Oregon. Zusammenfassung Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place describes community-built practices through several international and cross-disciplinary case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Defining Community-Built by Barry L. Stiefel, Kristin Faurest, and Katherine Melcher Part I: Participation and Empowerment Community-Built as a Professional Practice by Katherine Melcher Kalaka: Four Stories about Community Building in a New Democracy by Kristin Faurest Reflections on Community Engagement: Making Meaning of Experience by Terry L. Clements and C.L. Bohannon Impacts of Participatory Mural Making on Youth Empowerment by Tiva Lasiter Part II: Culture and Identity Community Eruvin: Architecture for Semi-Public/Private Neighborhood Space by Barry L. Stiefel Community-Built and Preserved Material Culture: Square-log Cabins in the Village of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec by Mariana Esponda Cascajares Constructing and Preserving History Through Community Art Projects by Anastasia L. Pratt Yellow Star Houses: a Community Generated Living History Project in Budapest by Ildikó Réka Báthory-Nagy Part III: Local Control of Place Building Informal Infrastructures: Architects in Support of Bottom-up Community Services and Social Solidarity in Budapest by Daniela Patti and Levente Polyak The Main Street Approach to Community Design by Jeremy C. Wells Building Streets and Building Community by Katherine Melcher Conclusion: Valuing Community-Built by Kristin Faurest, Barry L. Stiefel, and Katherine Melcher List of Contributors ...
