Planning for AuthentiCITIES
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Word Count
98,000 words, Guess
Page Count
392 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780815384908
- ISBN-100815384904
- Library of Congress Control Number2018008395
- OCLC Control Number1046085061
- OCLC Control Number1029075187
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780815384908
- Open LibraryOL34643952M
Classifications
- LCCHT170.P65 2018
- LCCHT170 .P65 2018eb
- LCCHT170 .P65 2019
Description
Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities' commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the same, and gentrification displaces many original neighbourhood 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. Typcially, 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--back cover.
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