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The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change - Design and Improvisation in Development Practice (Hardcover)
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The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change - Design and Improvisation in Development Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
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This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary
form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives
guidance on how practice can make space for big and lasting change
and for new opportunities to be discovered. It points to ways of
building synergy and negotiating our way in the social and
political spaces 'in between' conventional and often competing
ideals - public and private interests, top down and bottom up,
formal and informal, the global agendas which outsiders promote and
the local needs of insiders, for example. It offers guidance on
process, designed to close gaps and converge worlds which we know
have become divisive and discriminatory, working from the detail of
everyday life in search of beginnings that count, building out and
making meaningful locally, the abstractions of the global causes we
champion - poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability,
resilience. Practice - the collective process by which decisions
are negotiated, plans designed and actions taken in response to
needs and aspirations, locally and globally - we will see, is not
just about being practical, but more. Its purpose is to give
structure to our understanding of the order and disorder in our
cities today, then to disturb that order when it has become
inefficient or inequitable, even change it. It is to add moral
value to morally questionable planning practice and so build "a
social economy for the satisfaction of human need." Practice in
these spaces 'in-between' redraws the boundaries of expectation of
disciplinary work and offers a new high ground of moral purpose
from which to be more creative, more integrated, more relevant,
more resourceful - more strategic.
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