Tradition, Location and Community
Place-making and Development
Published on 1. April 1997
Book
Hardback
338 pages
978-1-85972-320-3 (ISBN)
Description
Taking as its focus the culture-specific nature of place and social development, this book includes 20 selected papers, and is divided into three sections: explanations of people and particular environmental behaviour relations, methods for analysing connections between space and social development, and case studies for Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. In more detail, some of the other themes the book examines include: women, housing and development, physical development standards, and tradition, community and change. The view that was overwhelmingly agreed upon was that shaping places for people should not only be in conformity with their individual needs and aspirations, but should also be a means for social and economic progress.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones, figures, tables, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 224 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-320-3 (9781859723203)
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Content
Part 1 Theoretical and conceptual exploration on place-making and development: some thoughts on people, place and development; "uneven devel opment" of people and places - outline of a theory of built form; development alternatives of human ecosystem - an integrative and comprehensive approach; ecological community planning - concepts and principles for eco-community development; the "enablement" approach and settlement upgrading in South Africa. Part 2 Case studies: in search of a spatial culture; location and development - people, place and power in Alexandria's inner-city neighbourhoods; planning and designing rural settlements - the Algerian experience; gender and structural adjustment - a case study in North-Eastern Ghana; societal values in development process - place-making in Sokoto, Nigeria; community self build in Britain - the potential and the reality; understanding user transformation of public housing; the making of territories - a case study in South Africa; upgrading of townships in South Africa after apartheid; modernist housing policy and tradition; a study of a house type with an open space; is informal housing the destiny of the urban poor?.