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    The Year of the Flood

    Margaret Atwood

Rtpi Library Series #6: Urban Planning and Cultural Identity

by William J. V. Neill

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Urban Planning and Cultural Identity reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but touch on the raw sensibilities of who people define themselves to be. Berlin as the reborn German capital has put 'coming to terms with' the Holocaust and the memory of the GDR full square at the centre of urban planning. Detroit raises questions about the impotence and complicity of planners in the face of the most extreme metropolitan spatial apartheid in the United States and where African-American identity now seems set on a separatist course. In Belfast, in the clash of Irish nationalist and Ulster unionist traditions, place can take on intense emotional meanings in relation to which planners as 'mediators of space' can seem ill equipped.

The book, drawing on extensive interview sources in the case study cities, poses a question of broad relevance. Can planners fashion a role in using environmental concerns such as Local Agenda 21 as a vehicle of building a sense of common citizenship in which cultural difference can embed itself?

Synopsis:

This work links debates in urban planning with debates in cultural geography/studies, using a combination of case studies (in Detroit, Belfast and Berlin) and reviews of literature in cultural studies. The work illustrates the important role planners play in constructing space.

Synopsis:

This book links debates in urban planning with debates in cultural geography/studies. Using a combination of case studies - Detroit, Belfast and Berlin - and reviews of literature in cultural studies. The work illustrates the important role planners play in constructing space, in light of the continuing importance of place as constitutive element in identity formation. The case studies expose different types of struggles for place identity, and, in turn, how planners might react to different sets of circumstances. The work also compares successful planning where existing identities have been remembered and have been given space to continue with insensitive planning which eradicates existing cultural identities and does not allow 'space' for either new or previous identities to establish themselves.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780415259156
Author:
NEILL, WILLIAM (QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY)
Publisher:
Routledge
Author:
Neill William
Location:
New York
Subject:
Planning
Subject:
City planning
Subject:
Cross-cultural studies
Subject:
Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.
Copyright:
2003
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
The RTPI library series ;
Series Volume:
13656
Publication Date:
December 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
261
Dimensions:
234 x 156 in.
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