Michael H Carriere, David Schalliol

The City Creative

The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America

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Produktbeschreibung

"In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking-small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. Michael H. Carriere and David Schalliol's study of micro-interventions at more than 200 sites in 39 cities combines archival research, participant observation, interviews, site visits, and powerful documentary photography. They find that formal and informal placemaking has become firmly entrenched as a mid-level policy bridging local community development with regional economic master plans, and they provide a kaleidoscopic overview of how such initiatives grow-and sometimes collapse"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 224mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1320g
• ISBN-13: 9780226727226
• ISBN-10: 022672722X
• Artikelnr.: 59183917

Autorenporträt

Michael H. Carriere is associate professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. David Schalliol is associate professor of sociology at St. Olaf College. His writing and photographs have appeared in such publications as MAS Context, The New York Times, and Social Science Research, as well as in numerous exhibitions, including in the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. He is the author of Isolated Building Studies and director of The Area.