From the author of Small Change comes this engaging 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. Drawing on four decades of practical and
teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the
complexities faced by practitioners when working to improve the
communities, lives and livelihoods of people the world over. This
title shows how these complexities are a context for, rather than a
barrier to, creative work.
The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community also critiques the
single vision top down approach to design and planning. Using
examples of successful professional practice across Europe, the US,
Africa, Latin America and post-tsunami Asia, the author
demonstrates how good policy can derive from good practices when
reasoned backwards, as well as how plans can emerge in practice
without a preponderance of planning. Reasoning backwards is shown
to be a more effective and inclusive way of planning forwards with
significant improvements to the quality of process and place.
Nabeel Hamdi offers a variety of methods and tools for analyzing
the issues, engaging with communities and other stakeholders for
design and settlement planning and for improving the skills of all
involved in placemaking. Ultimately the book serves as an inspiring
guide, and a distillation of decades of practical wisdom and
experience. The resulting practical handbook is for all those
involved in doing, learning and teaching placemaking and urban
development world-wide.
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