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Format: 1 online resource (296 p.) : , 15 illus.

ISBN: 9780812297164

Series Statement: The City in the Twenty-First Century

Content: A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new dwelling units as quickly and with as little avoidable damage as possible. Life Among Urban Planners considers planning professionals in relation to the social contexts in which they operate: the planning office, the construction site, and even in the confrontations with thos eaffected by their work. What roles do planners have in shaping the daily practices of urban life? How do they employ, manipulate, and alter their expertise to meet the demands asked of them? The essays in this volume emphasize planners' cultural values and personal assumptions and critically examine what their persistent commitment to thinking about the future means for the ways in which people live in the present and preserve the past.Life Among Urban Planners explores the practices and politics of professional city-making in a wide selection of geographical areas spanning five continents. Cases include but are not limited to Bangkok, Bogotá, Chicago, Naimey, Rome, Siem Reap, Stockholm, and Warsaw. Examining the issues raised around questions of expertise, participation, and the tension between market and state forces, contributors demonstrate how certain planning practices accentuate their specific relationship to a place while others are represented to a global audience as potentially universal solutions. In presenting detailed and intimate portraits of the everyday lives of planners, the volume offers key insights into how the city interacts with the world.Contributors: Margaret Crawford, Adèle Esposito, Trevor Goldsmith, Mark Graham, Michael Herzfeld, James Holston, Gabriella Körling, Jennifer Mack, Andrew Newman, Lissa Nordin, Bruce O'Neill, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Federico Pérez, Monika Sznel.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: Living Life Among Planners -- , 1. Shaping Cultural Space: Reflections on the Politics and Cosmology of Urbanism -- , 2. Why Planners Need Anthropologists -- , 3. Redesigning the Republic? Public Gardens, Participatory Design, and Citizenship in Immigrant Paris -- , 4. Zoning as Default: The Politics of Foreign- Sponsored Urban Planning in Siem Reap, Cambodia -- , 5. An Anatomy of Failure: Planning After the Fact in Contemporary Bogotá, Colombia -- , 6. A “Zoning Tombola”: Informal Planning in Niamey, Niger -- , 7. Breaking the Rules, Making the Ruler: Syriac Homes and the Limits of Swedish Planning -- , 8. The Scales of Justice: Region, Rights, and Responsibility in St. Louis, Missouri -- , 9. Power without the Mustache: Urban Quality as Planning Practice in Post- Industrial Barcelona -- , 10. The Games We Play: What Is Participation in Urban Planning? Insights from Warsaw -- , 11. From the Real to the Virtual: A Swedish Solution for “Universal” Sustainable Development in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm -- , Afterword: The Problem of the Present in Anthropology and Urban Planning -- , List of Contributors -- , Index -- , Acknowledgments , In English.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

DOI: 10.9783/9780812297164

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297164

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URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297164

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Format: 467 Seiten , Illustrationen

In: 1

Language: English

Author information: Toorn, Roemer van 1960-

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ISBN: 9781940291994

Content: Architecture in Effect' is a substantial collection of essays emerging from the Swedish research environment of the same name. While it takes its point of departure from within the specific context that is Sweden, it includes contributions from authors based in the Nordic context, in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. A central premise of the collected research is that the built environment and societal norms are co-constitutive and that architecture as a discipline and as a professional practice plays a fundamental role in this relationship. Contemporary political and environmental conditions place specific demands on society and on the everyday life of individuals. There persists, as such, an obligation for actors within the discipline of architecture to contribute to a rethinking of the situated knowledges within architecture by engaging in trans-, cross-, and inter-disciplinary studies. Architectural researchers have the capacity to guide and criticize thinking on architecture and its vital material relations amidst existing and emerging societies

Language: English

Keywords: Architekturtheorie ; Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Toorn, Roemer van 1960-

Author information: Frichot, Hélène 1970-

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Format: 467 Seiten , Illustrationen

Series Statement: Architecture in effect vol 1

Language: English

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Toorn, Roemer van 1960-

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

ISBN: 9781452958774 (ebook) :

Content: In 'The Construction of Equality', Jennifer Mack shows how Syriac-instigated architectural projects and spatial practices have altered the Swedish city's built environment 'from below.' Combining architectural, urban, and ethnographic tools through archival research, site work, participant observation, and interviews, Mack provides a unique take on urban development, social change, and the immigrant experience in Europe over a fifty-year period.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2017.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780816698691

Language: English

URL: Minnesota scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (224 p.)

ISBN: 1-62948-164-5

Series Statement: Media and communications-- technologies, policies and challenges

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-62948-163-7

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-60938-322-2

Series Statement: Iowa and the midwest experience

Content: Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed the graves had been moved to a new cemetery in the late nineteenth century in response to overcrowding and changing burial customs. But in 2007, when a developer broke ground for a new condominium complex here, the heavy machinery unearthed human bones. Clearly, some of Dubuque's early settlers still rested there-in fact, mor

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , The story unravels -- Lead in the bluffs, 1833/1880 -- Slumbering on the bluff -- Abandoned to desecration, 1880/2013 -- The untold story -- The things they took with them -- Humanizing the people of Third Street -- The kind-hearted gunsmith's family -- The brickmaker's unfortunate family -- Conjured from paper and stone -- Forgetting and remembering the dead -- Mediating for the dead -- Continuity of care -- The persistence of myth. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-60938-321-4

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books.