Binding: Paperback
Description: Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the same and gentrification displaces many original neighborhood residents we are left with a sense that our cities are becoming "hollowed out " bereft of the multi - faceted connections that once rooted us to our communities. And yet in a world where change is unrelenting people long for authentic places. This book examines the reasons for and responses to this longing considering the role of community development in addressing community and neighbourhood authenticity. A key concept underscoring planning's inherent challenges is the notion of authentic community ranging from more holistic and yet highly market - sensitive conceptions of authentic community to appreciating how authenticity helps form and reinforce individual identity. Typically developers emphasize spaces monetary exchange value while residents emphasize neighbourhoods use value including how those spaces enrich local community tradition and life. Where exchange value predominates authenticity is increasingly implicated in gentrification taking us further from what initially made communities authentic. The hunger for authenticity grows in spite and because of its ambiguities. This edited collection seeks to explore such dynamics asking alternately " How does the definition of authenticity shift in different social political and economic contexts?" And " Can planning promote authenticity? If so how and under what conditions?" It includes healthy scepticism regarding the concept along with proposals for promoting its democratic inclusive expression in neighbourhoods and communities.
Title: Planning For Authenticities
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9780815384922
Pages: 392 Pages, 8 Tables, Black And White; 8 Line Drawings, Black And White; 31 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 7/19/2018
Category: Urban & Municipal Planning