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Deconstructing Placemaking Mahyar Arefi (University of Cincinnati, United States)

Deconstructing Placemaking By Mahyar Arefi (University of Cincinnati, United States)

Summary

Place matters has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and urban design, geography, and sociology.

Deconstructing Placemaking Summary

Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets by Mahyar Arefi (University of Cincinnati, United States)

A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants. "Place matters" has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and urban design, geography, and sociology to name a few. While conceptualized narrowly by individual disciplines, a holistic framework of placemaking is sorely missing. Mahyar Arefi seeks to fill this gap by exploring these questions: how are places physically created, socially mobilized, and politically contested?

This book explores three competing approaches to placemaking: need-based, opportunity-based, and asset-based. Using a case study approach, the book delves into each paradigm and its stages of physical formation, social mobilization, and political contestation.

About Mahyar Arefi (University of Cincinnati, United States)

Mahyar Arefi is an Associate Professor at the School of Planning, University of Cincinnati, USA, and holds a PhD in planning from the University of Southern California, USA. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development doctoral dissertation grant, Goody Clancy's Faculty Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Istanbul, Turkey. He has published extensively in the areas of place and placemaking, community and international development, and urbanism.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Three Dichotomies Relevant to Placemaking 3. Placemaking in Istanbul and Boston 4. Need-based Placemaking 5. Opportunity-based Placemaking 6. Asset-based Placemaking 7. Evolutionary/Stages

Additional information

NPB9780415724364
9780415724364
0415724368
Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets by Mahyar Arefi (University of Cincinnati, United States)
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2014-05-02
150
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