1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of People and Place in the 21st-Century City
Increasing urbanization and increasing urban density put enormous pressure on the relationships between people and place in cities. Built environment professionals must pay attention to the impact of people–place relationships in small- to large-scale urban initiatives. A small playground in a neighborhood pocket park is an example of a small-scale urban development; a national environmental policy that influences energy sources is an example of a large-scale initiative. All scales of decision-making have implications for the people–place relationships present in cities. This book presents new research in contemporary, interdisciplinary urban challenges, and opportunities, and aims to keep the people–place relationship debate in focus in the policies and practices of built environment professionals and city managers. Most urban planning and design decisions, even those on a small scale, will remain in the urban built form for many decades, conditioning people’s experience of their city. It is important that these decisions are made using the best available knowledge.
This book contains an interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary urban movements and issues influencing the relationship between people and place in urban environments around the world which have major implications for both the processes and products of urban planning, design, and management. The main purpose of the book is to consolidate contemporary thinking among experts from a range of disciplines including anthropology, environmental psychology, cultural geography, urban design and planning, architecture and landscape architecture, and the arts, on how to conceptualize and promote healthy people and place relationships in the 21st-century city. Within each of the chapters, the authors focus on their specific areas of expertise which enable readers to understand key issues for urban environments, urban populations, and the links between them.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
The Power of Cities on People-Place Relationships
Kate Bishop & Nancy Marshall
Section 1: Vibrant Cities
- Self-conscious and unselfconscious placemaking in the city
- Using places / exchanging places
- Festival Bodies: The Role of the Senses and Feelings in Place-Making Practices
- A Sound Understanding of Healthy Cities
- Art, communities and housing form: A practitioner’s perspective
- Pushing diversity beyond recognition
- Diversity in density: Encouraging participation in higher density living
- Knowing their place: Children, young people and cities
- Exercise space planning and design for an aging society: A case study of space, exercise behaviour and cognitive function of older women in Taiwan
- Culture, citizenship and the practice of place-making
- The Experience of place and displacement in the 21st century city
- Propositions for more just urban public spaces
- Place-based activism: Out of the frying pan of citizen disengagement or into the fire of territorial localism?
- Morphing paradise ideology, culture and planning in Bali
- Consuming heritage or the end of tradition: Challenges in the transition from vernacularism to globalization
- The technological infrastructure of place
- Socio-ecological dimensions: People, place and technology
- Overcrowding and domestic use of public space
- Tel Aviv: Making place through technology
- Web 2.0 social media: Supporting people-place relationships
- Place Attachment, well-being and resilience
- Putting people first in place-based urban post-disaster recovery
- Rebuilding after disaster: People, processes and five per cent technology
- Making place by making things again? How artisanal makers are reshaping place in post-industrial Detroit and Newcastle
- Resilience in a warming climate: Public place-making for health and wellbeing in hot cities
- Urban Greenspace: Places supporting urban resilience
Emeritus Professor Jon Lang, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Kate Shaw, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Michelle Duffy, University of Newcastle, Australia
A/Professor Nancy Marshall, University of NSW, Sydney
Rachel Cogger, University of NSW, Sydney
Marla Guppy, Principal, Guppy & Associates, Sydney
Section 2: Diverse Cities
Emeritus Professor Ruth Fincher, University of Melbourne
A/Professor Hazel Easthope, City Futures Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Edgar Liu, City Futures Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Christina Ho, University of Technology, Sydney
Caitlin Buckle, City Futures Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Kate Bishop University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Fatemeh Aminpour, University of NSW, Sydney
A/Professor Tzuyuan Chao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Yun Chou, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
A/Professor Michael Rios, University of California, Davis
Section 3: Equitable Cities
A/Professor Lynne Manzo, University of Washington
Professor Setha Low, City University of New York
Associate Professor Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr Ryan van den Nouwelant, City Futures Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Gusti Ayu Made Suartika, Udayana University Bali
Professor Emeritus Nezar AlSayyad, UC Berkeley, USA
Section 4: Smart Cities
Professor Mitchell Schwarzer, California College of the Arts, USA
Associate Professor Deni Ruggeri, Norwegian University of Life Science, Norway
Anna Szilagy-Nagy, LE:NOTRE Institute
Dr Christian Tietz, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Christine Steinmetz, University of NSW, Sydney
Hila Oren, The Tel Aviv Foundation, Israel
Associate Professor Nancy Marshall, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Homa Rahmat, University of NSW, Sydney
Section 5: Resilient Cities
Dr Leila Scannell, University of British Columbia, Canada
LiQin Tan, University of Victoria, Canada
Professor Robin Cox, Royal Roads University, Canada
Professor Robert Gifford, University of Victoria, Canada
Professor David Sanderson, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Anshu Sharma, Safer World, India
Dr Laura Crommelin, City Futures Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney
Dr Louise McKenzie, University of NSW, Sydney
Professor Susan Thompson, University of NSW, Sydney
Professor Linda Corkery, University of NSW, Sydney
Meeting the demands for change, adaptation and innovation in 21st Century cities
Nancy Marshall & Kate Bishop
Biography
Kate Bishop is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. Her background in environment-behavior research underpins her teaching and research, and her particular area of interest is children, youth, and environments. She specializes in the research and design of environments for children with special needs; pediatric facilities; and participatory methodologies with children and young people. Kate worked in the private industry and government before completing her PhD and becoming an academic.
Nancy Marshall is an Associate Professor in the City Planning Program at UNSW in Sydney, Australia, where she was the Associate Dean/Education from 2009 to 2013 and won the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Her research focuses on people and place, with a particular focus on plazas, parks, and smart cities. Her recent book is co-authored with Jon Lang and entitled Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays (2017). Nancy worked as an urban planner in Canada for 15 years before completing her PhD and becoming an academic.
"This handbook is a really remarkable multidisciplinary and international survey of the complex ways in which cities serve as critical arenas for struggles of belonging, social justice and resilience. I also read it as an invaluable guidebook to the diverse, essential yet elusive importance of place and placemaking for resolving these struggles as cities continue to grow and change in unprecedented ways." –Edward Relph, Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
