How spaces become places : place makers tell their stories / edited by John F. Forester ; with a foreword by Randolph Hester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forester, John, 1948- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Urban policy.

Urban renewal.

Place attachment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 340 pages.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Village Press, 2021.

Contents:

Foreword / Randolph Hester

Editor’s preface

Introduction: Place making, not plan making - learning from what takes place

Part One: Design, collaboration, and ownership. 1. Affordable housing, ethnicity, and the construction of place: Michael Pyatok’s practice story

2. Engaging communities with expertise and accountability: Al Zelinka’s practice story

3. “Absolutely not. That’s public space, so nobody can use it”: Mark Lakeman’s practice story

4. Bridging Minnesota and Wisconsin with twenty-eight stakeholders: Michael Hughes’s practice story

5. Dispute resolution, deliberation, and racial violence: Karen Umemoto’s practice story

6. Developing the Red Hook Community Justice Center: James Brodick’s practice story

7. Community, belonging, and place making: Father Philip Sumner’s practice story

8. Listening, accountability, and self-determination: Malik Yakini’s practice story

Part Three: Art, imagination, and value creation. 9. Public art, economic development, and the origins of WaterFire: Barnaby Evans’s practice story

10. Place, identity, and rituals of turning space into place: Wendy Sarkissian’s practice story

11. Giving Paris a green hand: Laurence Baudelet’s practice story

12. Creating ARTWalk - organizing, inventing, and creating value: Doug Rice’s practice story

13. Cultivating the arts in New York Mills: John Davis’s practice story

Conclusion: Collaboration, difference, and imagination in processes of place making

Afterword: The relevance of these place makers’ stories in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement

Appendix 1: Overview of community development and crime prevention, New York Center for Court Innovation / James Brodick

Appendix 2: On optimism / Michael Hughes

Appendix 3: Interviewees, interviewers, and dates and approvals of interviews

Notes

Bibliography

Contributor’s information

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781613321454 (electronic bk.)

1613321457 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99995635345

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.