Urban planning and cultural identity / William J.V. Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neill, William J. V.

Series:

RTPI library series ; 6.

The RTPI library series ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

City planning--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Urban Planning and Cultural Identity reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but touch on the raw sensibilities of who people define themselves to be. Berlin as the reborn German capital has put 'coming to terms with' the Holocaust and the memory of the GDR full square at the centre of urban planning. Detroit raises questions about the impotence and complicity of planners in the face of the most extreme metropolitan spatial apartheid in the United States and where Afr

Contents:

Knowing Your Place: Urban Planning and the Spatiality of Cultural Identity

Planning, Memory and Identity I: Acknowledging the Past in the City of Remorse

Planning, Memory and Identity II: Erasing the Past in the City of the Victors

Place-making and the Failure of Multi-Culturalism in the African-American City

Cosmopolis Postponed: Planning and the Management of Cultural Conflict in the British and/or Irish City of Belfast

Conclusion: Environmental Citizenship as Civic Glue?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-252) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-51285-6

1-134-51286-4

0-415-25915-0

1-280-05591-X

0-203-40224-3

9780203402245

OCLC:

304130610