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Recoded city : co-creating urban futures / Thomas Ermacora + Lucy Bullivant.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.; ©2016Description: 319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781138819801
  • 1138819808
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1216 ERM
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The rise of bottom-up placemaking -- Grand ideals of antiquity; the birth of modern cities; Modernism\'s collateral damage; cities are for people; experiments in collective dwelling; challenges to welfare and growing inequalities; mega-planning vs micro-planning: bottom-up activism\'s impact; breaking the mould and aspirations for new [ect.] -- Wiki culture -- Open society; defining wiki culture; building operating systems for self-organisation; the Internet of Things: networks and empowerment; the sharing economy; Creative Commons and shared property rights; setting up new value and transaction systems -- Fast forward now -- Entering an age of acceleration; the democratisation of technology; the smart city; crowdfunding; new alliances and platforms engaging bits and atoms; participatory learning and self-learning; open data and achieving transparency -- Refraining placemaking -- Participatory institutions; hybrid forums; the Open City; liveability; digital tools of placemaking; art as actor -- Receding: the art of participatory placemaking -- A concept and a method; pros and cons: key considerations of receding; 1. Involving the professional and the non-professional; 2. Strategies for developing relevance and credibility; 3. Using time wisely; 4. Funding and funding solutions; 5. Evaluating the process; 6. Building a legacy and sustaining the results; the bigger [ect.] -- Open society, Inequality and the post-Individualist spirit -- Crumbling institutions and global turmoil; inequality, its discontents and new paradigms -- Futures -- Afterword -- Stories -- 43 essays examining participatory placemaking -- recoding -- projects around the world -- Voices / Ute Weiland.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author Thomas Ermacora terms 'recoding'. In combining bottom-up and top-down means of regenerating and rebalancing neighbourhoods affected by declining welfare or struck by disaster, this growing movement brings greater resilience.

Recoded City sheds light on a new epoch in the relationship between cities and civil society by presenting an emerging range of collaborative solutions and distributed governance models. The authors draw on their own fresh research of global pioneers forging localist design strategies, public-realm interventions and new stakeholder dynamics. As the world becomes increasingly digital and virtual, a myriad of online tools and technological options is becoming available. These give unprecedented co-creation opportunities to communities and professionals alike, yielding the benefits of a more open - DIY - society.

Because of its close engagement with people, place and local identity, the field of participatory placemaking has huge untapped potential. Responding to the challenges of the Anthropocene era, Recoded City is for decision-makers, developers and practitioners working globally to make better and more liveable cities.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-313) and index.

Machine generated contents note: The rise of bottom-up placemaking -- Grand ideals of antiquity; the birth of modern cities; Modernism\'s collateral damage; cities are for people; experiments in collective dwelling; challenges to welfare and growing inequalities; mega-planning vs micro-planning: bottom-up activism\'s impact; breaking the mould and aspirations for new [ect.] -- Wiki culture -- Open society; defining wiki culture; building operating systems for self-organisation; the Internet of Things: networks and empowerment; the sharing economy; Creative Commons and shared property rights; setting up new value and transaction systems -- Fast forward now -- Entering an age of acceleration; the democratisation of technology; the smart city; crowdfunding; new alliances and platforms engaging bits and atoms; participatory learning and self-learning; open data and achieving transparency -- Refraining placemaking -- Participatory institutions; hybrid forums; the Open City; liveability; digital tools of placemaking; art as actor -- Receding: the art of participatory placemaking -- A concept and a method; pros and cons: key considerations of receding; 1. Involving the professional and the non-professional; 2. Strategies for developing relevance and credibility; 3. Using time wisely; 4. Funding and funding solutions; 5. Evaluating the process; 6. Building a legacy and sustaining the results; the bigger [ect.] -- Open society, Inequality and the post-Individualist spirit -- Crumbling institutions and global turmoil; inequality, its discontents and new paradigms -- Futures -- Afterword -- Stories -- 43 essays examining participatory placemaking -- recoding -- projects around the world -- Voices / Ute Weiland.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Thomas Ermacora FRSA is a regeneration architect, impact entrepreneur and futures thinker, nominated for the UK Placemaking Awards 2013 and 2014. He is founder and creative director of the tactical urban design non-profit Clear Village (Clear-Village.org), delivering participatory initiatives catalyzing the recovery of neighbourhoods across Europe, as well as of the Limewharf cultural innovation hub (Limewharf.org) and Machines Rooms fab lab (MachinesRoom.org) in east London. Inspired by project work with Gehl Architects and Gehry Partners among others, and now working closely with Carmody Groarke, his observations and commitments are the reason for this book.

Lucy Bullivant PhD Hon FRIBA is a cultural historian and award-winning author, exhibition curator, professor of urban design history, a Built Environment Expert for Design Council Cabe, and the founder and Creative Director of the webzine Urbanista.org. She has a PhD in adaptive planning from the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University. Her publications include Masterplanning Futures (Routledge), Responsive Environments, and Anglo Files: UK Architecture's Rising Generation . She has curated successful exhibitions for bodies including the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Shenzhen 2015, Vitra Design Museum, the Milan Triennale and the British Council. www.lucybullivant.net

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