Tradition, Location and Community (eBook, PDF)

Place-making and Development
Redaktion: Awotona, Adenrele; Teymur, Necdet

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1997, this title brings together the selected papers of seventeen architects, social scientists and planners. It offers a range of original perspectives on the relationship between the design and habituation of the built environment on the one hand and social and cultural development on the other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040149973
• Artikelnr.: 72335941

Autorenporträt

Adenrele Awotona recently retired as a professor of Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, where he has been a dean of the College of Public and Community Service as well as the Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters. He was previously a Director of Studies for the British Council International Seminars (Reconstruction after disasters) in the United Kingdom. During his career, he served as an academic administrator (Dean, Associate Dean, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Research Centers, and Chair of Departments), university professor, researcher, and practitioner. He earned his Doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Certificate from Harvard University's Institute of Management and Leadership in Education in the USA. He now lives in Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. Professor Necdet Teymur (1945-2017) studied architecture, design and social theory; and taught and researched at universities in UK and elsewhere on architectural theory, design and education - with housing as one of the primary focus. He was the course director of Postgraduate Course in International Architectural Practice (1990-94) and the director of the Centre for International Architectural Studies (1991-94) at the School of Architecture, Manchester University (1990-94); and the Dean of Faculty of Architecture at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey (1997-2000). Necdet Teymur was the author and editor of numerous books, papers and articles on architecture, the environment, housing, design, theory, history and education. His first major book Environmental Discourse won the First Prize and Gold Medal at the II. World Biennale of Architecture in 1983. He was an active member of UIA, IAPS and DRS, editor of Design Research (1982-87) and Bulletin of People-Environment Studies (1995-98) as well as Associate Editor of Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, Environments by Design and Datutop.

Inhaltsangabe

New Series Introduction to the Reissue David Canter and David Stea.
Figures. Tables. Plates. List of Contributors. Introduction. Section One:
Theoretical and Conceptual Explorations on Place-Making and Development 1.
Some Thoughts on People, Place and Development Amos Rapoport 2. 'Uneven
Development' of People and Places: Outline of a Theory of Built Form
Necdet Teymur 3. Development Alternatives of the Human Ecosystem: An
Integrative and Comprehensive Approach Anis-Ur-Rahmaan 4. Ecological
Community Planning: Concepts and Principles for Eco-Community Development
Yung-Jaan Lee 5. The 'Enablement' Approach and Settlement Upgrading in
South Africa Adenrele Awotona and Michael Briggs Section Two: Case Studies
6. In Search of a Spatial Culture Amr F. Elgohary and Julienne Hanson 7.
Location and Development: People, Place and Power in Alexandria's
Inner-City Neighbourhoods Amr El-Sherif 8. Planning and Designing Rural
Settlements: The Algerian Experience Lamine Mahdjoubi and Adenrele Awotona
9. Gender and Structural Adjustment: A Case Study in North-Eastern Ghana
Mariama Awumbila 10. Societal Values in Development Process: Place-Making
in Sokoto, Nigeria Umar G. Benna 11. Community Self Build in Britain: The
Potential and the Reality Christine Holman 12. Understanding User
Transformation of Public Housing Rafik Salama 13. The Making of
Territories: A Case Study in South Africa Maano F. Ramutsindela 14.
Upgrading of Townships in South Africa After Apartheid Ola Uduku 15.
Modernist Housing Policy and Tradition Peter King 16. A Study of a House
Type with an Open Space Aysu Baskaya and Martin Symes 17. Is Informal
Housing the Destiny of the Urban Poor? Gülsün Saglamer, Hülya Turgut,
Meltem Aksoy, Arda Inceoglu and Nurbin Paker. References. Index.