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Table of Contents:

• 1. The Evolution of Development and the Placemaker's Tools
• Part I. Place, Time and Clutter: Learning from Practice
• Reflection: Listening to Communicate / David Sanderson
• 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'Ask / Anshu Sharma
• Introduction to Part II
• 4. Toolkits
• 5. Knowledge
• 6. Participation in Practice
• 7. Interventions: Site Plans and House Plans, Buffaloes and Mushrooms
• Part 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.

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Author/Creator:

Hamdi, Nabeel

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The placemakers' guide to building community: planning, design and placemaking in practice [by Hamdi, N.]

Related Series:

Tools for community planning

Subjects:

Community development — Developing countries

Economic development — Developing countries

Human settlements — Developing countries

City planning — Developing countries

Community development

Economic development

Human settlements

City planning

Developing countries

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xx, 252 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Call Numbers:

HN981.C6 H364 2010

ISBNs:

9781844078028 (hbk, alk. paper)
9781844078035 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010000819

OCLC Numbers:

1053098424