Deconstructing Placemaking - Needs, Opportunities, and Assets

"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"--

Product details

• Authors: Mahyar Arefi, Mahyar (University of Cincinnati Arefi, Arefi Mahyar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2014
• EAN: 9780415724364
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72436-4
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities / city life