Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets

di Mahyar Arefi (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014

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.

• Autore: Mahyar Arefi
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 150 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 440 gr.
• EAN: 9780415724364

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