Mary Ganis has worked as an architect and urban designer in private practice, government and academia. This diverse experience has enabled her to integrate urban design practice and theory as well as explore urban design and planning questions from different perspectives. In 2015 she completed her second PhD research upon which this book is based.
Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people´s elusive notions of place and perception, time and change. Urban design and planning in a changing urban context so that it remains relevant for people is elusive because the idea of place is embedded in memory and identity – but whose memory and whose identity? This book seeks to understand the urban change dynamic so that the planning of urban places aligns with the dynamic of people´s perception of place.
Planning Urban Places examines the premise that building cities is a concrete business surrounded by a shifting context. It discusses the notion of urban design and placemaking from the perspective of place perception and cognitive psychology, place philosophy and human geography. It also considers network theory to help illustrate the self-organising paradigm of small word network theory for planning urban places.
1. The Planning Dilemma, 2. The Perception of Place, 3. Small World Network Theory, 4. Placemaking, 5. Entangled Places, 6. The Evolution of a Masterplan, 7. Network Analysis: A Pilot Study, 8. Conclusion
Über den Autor
Mary Ganis has worked as an architect and urban designer in private practice, government and academia. This diverse experience has enabled her to integrate urban design practice and theory as well as explore urban design and planning questions from different perspectives. In 2015 she completed her second PhD research upon which this book is based.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Planning Dilemma, 2. The Perception of Place, 3. Small World Network Theory, 4. Placemaking, 5. Entangled Places, 6. The Evolution of a Masterplan, 7. Network Analysis: A Pilot Study, 8. Conclusion
Klappentext
Urban change is sometimes difficult because we are dealing with people s elusive notions of place and perception, time and change. Planning in changing urban context so that it remains relevant for people is elusive because the idea of place is embedded in memory and identity but whose memory and whose identity? This book seeks to understand the urban change dynamic so that the planning of urban places aligns with the dynamic of people s perception of place. Mary Ganis discusses urban design and planning notions of placemaking from the point-of-view of place perception and cognitive psychology; place philosophy and human geography; sociology and network theory; and finally, proposes the self-organising paradigm of small world network theory as a metaphor for dynamic urban placemaking applied to a real life case study."
