How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories

By: John F. Forester

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Synopsis: Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategiesThese are stories of community members acting together to transform empty, contested, or unsafe spaces into functional, safe, convivial places. A diverse set of place makers, from activists to architects, moderators to planners, spanning four countries and ten US locales tell their stories in their own words. The complex and challenging cases range from building affordable housing to community building in the aftermath of racial violence. After grappling with issues like immigration, climate change, and coalition-building, place makers recount how they worked alongside once-suspicious community residents to enhance and enrich the places in which they live.You will learn how place makers build trust, diagnose local problems, convene stakeholders, and invent possible solutions based on the physical, spatial, and engineering possibilities at hand.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781613321447
Publisher:: New Village Press
Date of Addition:: 10/12/21
Copyrighted By:: New Village Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: John F. Forester
Foreword by:: Randolph T. Hester