The placemakers' guide to building community / Nabeel Hamdi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamdi, Nabeel.

Series:

Tools for community planning The placemakers' guide to building community

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--Developing countries.

Community development.

Economic development--Developing countries.

Economic development.

Human settlements--Developing countries.

Human settlements.

City planning--Developing countries.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a 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.

Contents:

Cover; The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Prologue; 1. The Evolution of Development and the Placemaker's Tools; Part I: Place, Time and Clutter: Learning from Practice Reflection: Listening to Communicate; 2. The Bad, the Good and the Ugly; 3. Profiling Vulnerability; Part II: Placemaking and the Architecture of Opportunity Reflection: Getting Answers to Questions You Don't Ask - Anshu Sharma; Introduction to Part II; 4. Toolkits; 5. Knowledge; 6. Participation in Practice

7. Interventions: Site Plans and House Plans, Buffaloes and MushroomsPart III: Placemakers: Responsible Practice and the Question of Scale Reflection: The Invisible Stakeholder - Charles Parrack; Introduction to Part III; 8. PEAS and the Sociable Side of Practice; 9. Reasoning to Scale; 10. Targeting Constraints; 11. Learning and Communication; 12. Reducing Dependency, Cultivating Ownership; 13. Building Livelihoods; Part IV: Teaching Reflection: The Mess of Practice - Rumana Kabir; 14. The Interventions Studio; 15. The Placemaker's Code; Notes and References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-54096-2

1-136-54097-0

1-282-72654-4

9786612726545

1-84977-517-6

9781849775175

OCLC:

651601620