Planning and Place in the City : Mapping Place Identity.
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TextUtgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2013Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (344 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9781135123796
- 307.1216
Cover -- Planning and Place in the City -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: planning the city - mapping place identity -- Part I Definition of the field of investigation -- Section I Place and place identity as key concepts -- 1 The concept of Place -- 2 Place identity -- Section II New places in the contemporary city -- 3 New spaces for living -- 4 Urban containers -- 5 Networks and infrastructures -- 6 New places of perceptions -- 7 Monitored places -- Part II Making places for people -- Section I Place analysis and planning methods -- 8 Placemaking: origins and changes -- 9 The virtual approach -- 10 The lateral approach -- 11 The people-oriented approach -- 12 The multi-scale approach -- 13 The configurational approach -- 14 The complex-sensitive approach -- Section II The PlaceMaker method -- 15 The method -- 16 The software -- 17 The sustainable place identity index -- Part III Case studies -- Section I Preserving place identity -- 18 Rome: the Trevi-Pantheon route -- 19 Los Angeles: South Broadway -- Section II Reconstructing place identity -- 20 Kobe: Kitano-cho -- 21 San Francisco: Market Street -- Section III Enhancing place identity -- 22 London: Oxford Street -- 23 Barcelona: Las Ramblas -- 24 Helsinki: the Esplanadi area -- Conclusion: towards a sustainable place identity -- Notes -- References -- Index.
How can cities retain their unique senses of history and place? Marichela Sepe's Planning and Place in the City explores new theoretical approaches to place, space, and planning and outlines new qualitative and digital methods that planners and preservationists can use in understanding and planning for the unique places they serve.
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