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Zusatztext '[This book] is both stimulating and timely ... I commend [it] because of its ever-greater relevance.' - Robin Nicholson Informationen zum Autor Peter Blundell Jones is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and a frequent contributor to The Architectural Review. Doina Petrescu is lecturer in architecture at the University of Sheffield and member of Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée in Paris. She has written, lectured and practiced individually and collectively on issues of gender, technology, (geo)politics and poetics of space. Jeremy Till is Professor of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. He is also a Director of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, an award winning practice. With degrees in both philosophy and architecture, his writings interrogate the relationship of theory to practice. Klappentext Explores ways in which users may be involved in the design of their future environment. Contributors provide both theoretical approaches and concrete outcomes. The issue of participation has recently assumed great political importance. This book Zusammenfassung Fully illustrated, international practitioners and theorists present an exploration of the social and political aspects of our built environment and the influence and involvement of the end user in its formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Politics of Participation 1. Architecture's Public 2. The Negotiation of Hope 3. Losing Control, Keeping Desire 4. Mass Housing Cannot be Sustained 5. Reinventing Public Participation: Planning in the Age of Consensus 6. How Inhabitants Can Become Collective Developers 7. City/Democracy: Retrieving Citizenship Part 2: Histories of Participation 8. Sixty-Eight and After 9. Fragments of Participation in Architecture 1963-2002 10. Notes on Participation 11. Kemal Özcül: Eco Prize 2034 12. Özcül Postcript: The Gelsenkirchen School as Built Part 3: Practices of Participation 13. Animal Town Planning and Homeopathic Architecture 14. 'What if?' A Narrative Process15. Politics Beyond the White Cube 16. How Do You Do 'What You Do' ? 17. Urban Catalysis and Other Games 18. Points, Spirals and Prototypes 19. Your Place, or Mine? ...
