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Sustaining a City's Culture and Character - Principles and Best Practices (Hardcover)
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Sustaining a City's Culture and Character - Principles and Best Practices (Hardcover)
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Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an
authentic-a truly unique-urban place, that blends global and local,
old and new. Yet, in a dramatically changing world dominated by
crises of climate change, maintaining public health, and social
justice, finding such places-and explaining their relevance-may be
easier said than done. Sustaining a City's Culture and Character
accepts that challenge, and provides a comprehensive method for
assessing how and why successful places come to be, with an
explicit emphasis on context: Authenticity, culture, character, and
uniqueness are words with meanings that depend on who is using them
and in what contexts. Through text interwoven with 160 full-colour
photographs by the author, and select illustrations by others, this
book addresses how to enact blended and contextualised urban
change, using the past and the status quo as catalysts rather than
castaways. It provides resources and examples for the
context-vetting process and for understanding how one era, object,
or generation informs the next.
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