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Place-making and Urban Development - New challenges for contemporary planning and design (Paperback)
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Place-making and Urban Development - New challenges for contemporary planning and design (Paperback)
Series: Regions and Cities
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The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of
public space with the intense involvement of local communities
seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some
widespread practices in academic and professional circles.
Recently, new expertise maintains that place-making could be an
innovative and potentially autonomous field, competing with more
traditional disciplines like urban planning, urban design,
architecture and others. This book affirms that the question of
'making better places for people' should be understood in a broader
sense, as a symptom of the non-contingent limitations of the urban
and spatial disciplines. It maintains that research should not be
oriented only towards new technical or merely formal solutions but
rather towards the profound rethinking of disciplinary paradigms.
In the fields of urban planning, urban design and policy-making,
the challenge of place-making provides scholars and practitioners a
great opportunity for a much-needed critical review. Only the
substantial reappraisal of long-standing (technical, cultural,
institutional and social) premises and perspectives can truly
improve place-making practices. The pressing need for place-making
implies trespassing undue disciplinary boundaries and experimenting
a place-based approach that can innovate and integrate planning
regulations, strategic spatial visioning and urban development
projects. Moreover, the place-making challenge compels urban
experts and policy-makers to critically reflect upon the physical
and social contexts of their interventions. In this sense, facing
place-making today is a way to renew the civic and social role of
urban planning and urban design.
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