The placemaker's guide to building community /

This is a guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamdi, Nabeel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
Colección:Tools for community planning.
Temas:
Community development > Developing countries.
Economic development > Developing countries.
Human settlements > Developing countries.
City planning > Developing countries.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
City planning
Community development
Economic development
Human settlements
Developing countries
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1 The Evolution of Development and the Placemakers Tools
  • A short introduction
  • Urban housing and urban development
  • International development, aid and the placemaker's tools
  • Part I Place, Time and Clutter: Learning from Practice
  • Reflection: Listening to Communicate 8211; David Sanderson
  • Chapter 2 The Bad, the Good and the Ugly
  • Day 1: The bad
  • Day 2: The good
  • Day 3: The ugly
  • Chapter 3 Profiling Vulnerability
  • Part II Placemaking and the Architecture of Opportunity
  • Reflection: Getting Answers to Questions You Dont Ask 8211; Anshu Sharma
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 4 Toolkits
  • Chapter 5 Knowledge
  • Chapter 6 Participation in Practice
  • Chapter 7 Interventions: Site Plans and House Plans, Buffaloes and Mushrooms
  • Buffaloes and mushrooms
  • The Piedibus
  • The mobile market and resource cart
  • Housing
  • Homestays
  • Part III Placemakers: Responsible Practice and the Question of Scale
  • Reflection: The Invisible Stakeholder 8211; Charles Parrack
  • Introduction to Part III
  • Chapter 8 PEAS and the Sociable Side of Practice
  • Providing
  • Enabling
  • Adaptability
  • Sustainability
  • Chapter 9 Reasoning to Scale
  • Chapter 10 Targeting Constraints
  • Chapter 11 Learning and Communication
  • Reflecting, opening up, localizing
  • Communication and legibility
  • Chapter 12 Reducing Dependency, Cultivating Ownership
  • Chapter 13 Building Livelihoods
  • Part IV Teaching
  • Reflection: The Mess of Practice 8211; Rumana Kabir
  • Chapter 14 The Interventions Studio
  • Learning objectives
  • Exploring PEAS
  • Streetwalk
  • Profiling livelihoods
  • Invading the site
  • Planning the site
  • Detail design
  • Building a prototype
  • Fieldwork
  • Chapter 15 The Placemakers Code
  • The context of constraints
  • The complementarity of opposites
  • Reflecting on conduct
  • Notes and References
  • Index.

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