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This book sheds new light in considering the role of community planning in addressing community and neighbourhood authenticity.
List of contents
Introduction: Planning for AuthentiCITIES Part I: Mooring Chapter 1: Chinatown, not Coffeetown: Authenticity and placemaking in Vancouver’s Chinatown Chapter 2: Neighbourhood authenticity and sense of place Chapter 3: Urban authenticity as a panacea for urban disorder? Business improvement areas, cultural power, and the worlds of justification Chapter 4: A framework of neighbourhood authenticity for urban planning: Three aspects and three types of change Chapter 5: Negotiating diversity: The transitioning Greektown of Baltimore City, Maryland Chapter 6: Planning and authenticity: A materialist and phronetic perspective Part II: Performing Chapter 7: Authenticity makes the city: How "the authentic" affects the production of space Chapter 8: Authenticity’s many performances in the urban studies literature Chapter 9: Tactical urbanism as the staging of social authenticity Chapter 10: Sincerity, performative authenticity, and tourism in New Orleans Chapter 11: Gardening in America Chapter 12: Utilizing comical mascots (yuru-kyara) to create city authenticity? Chapter 13: Authentic Downtown Project: Intentional community-making in the digital age Part III: Healing Chapter 14: Relocated authenticity: Placemaking in displacement in southern Taiwan Chapter 15: Coding the "authenti-city": North Harbour and Århusgade Quarter, Copenhagen Chapter 16: Diálogos for Latino Communities Chapter 17: Planning for reconciliation: Indigenous authenticity in community engagement and urban planning in Canadian cities Chapter 18: Urban-social imaginaries of authenticity—and the John Lennon Wall
About the author
Laura Tate, PhD (University of British Columbia), is an urban planning scholar, lecturer and consultant. Laura has an extensive practice background in city planning and public health. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and has most recently held the position of Visiting Lecturer at the California Polytechnic State University.
Brettany Shannon, PhD in Urban Planning and Development (University of Southern California), studies how media arts and digital communications intersect with urban and social placemaking. As the USC Bedrosian Center for Governance Scholar-in-Residence, she continues her research in the interview-based podcast, Los Angeles Hashtags Itself.
Summary
This book sheds new light in considering the role of community planning in addressing community and neighbourhood authenticity.
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"In our interdependent urban world how do people sustain real community? Tate & Shannon weave sixteen answers into three hopeful strategies: discover and invent objects to moor people to a shared place; perform social actions designed to carve out community spaces; and use purposeful cultural, political and professional strategies to heal spatial rifts hewn by indifferent development. Bravo!" -Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban Planning & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"Planning for AuthentiCITIES is a timely, novel, and stimulating book that will advance conversations and debates about the growing desire for and claims making about "authenticity." Written in an engaging manner and marked by compelling portraits of efforts on the ground to preserve perceived authenticity, this comprehensive text promises to guide conversations within and beyond the classroom about this charged topic. Crucially, this collection provides insights about when, how– and whether– planners ought to grapple with concerns for authenticity." -Japonica Brown-Saracino, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University, USA
"Planning for AuthentiCITIES contributes in a particularly lively way to our understanding of the role of place, identity and territory in our post-structuralist age. Co-editors Laura Tate and Brettany Shannon have enlisted both established scholars and new talents in a volume which brings to life the dynamics of how we see ‘authenticity’ as animating city and space, while not shrinking from individual and collective experiences of exclusion, marginality and inequality." -Tom Hutton, Professor of Urban Studies and City Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada
