Place and Placelessness Revisited by Robert Freestone (English) Hardcover Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Place and Placelessness Revisited by Robert Freestone, Edgar Liu Drawing on evidence from Australian, British, Japanese, and North and South American urban settings, Place and Placelessness Revisited is a collection of cutting edge empirical research and theoretical discussions of contemporary applications and interpretations of place and placelessness. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relphs Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design. For four decades, ideas put forward by this seminal work have continued to spark debates, from the concept of placelessness itself through how it plays out in our societies to how city designers might respond to its challenge in practice.Drawing on evidence from Australian, British, Japanese, and North and South American urban settings, Place and Placelessness Revisited is a collection of cutting edge empirical research and theoretical discussions of contemporary applications and interpretations of place and placelessness. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach, including contributions from across the breadth of disciplines in the built environment – architecture, environmental psychology, geography, landscape architecture, planning, sociology, and urban design – in critically re-visiting placelessness in theory and its relevance for twenty-first century contexts. Author Biography Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning in the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW Australia. He joined UNSW in 1991 after six years with Design Collaborative, a Sydney planning, research, and heritage consultancy. He has also held appointments at the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, and the Australian National University. His books include The Planning Imagination (co-editor, 2014), Urban Nation (2012), and Designing Australian Cities (2004).Edgar Liu is a Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre in the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW Australia. He has academic backgrounds in economic and cultural geography, and his research interests include social aspects of public estate renewals, housing as social welfare, and the conceptualization of human identities. Table of Contents Foreword –Tim CresswellRevisiting Place and Placelessness –Edgar Liu and Robert Freestone1. The Paradox of Place and the Evolution of Placelessness –Ted RelphPart 1. Place/lessness in Design2. An Urban Designers Perspective: Paradigms, Places and People –Jon Lang3. Theorys Role in Placelessness –Lucy Montague4. Reclaiming and Making and Places of Distinction through Landscape Architecture –Linda Corkery5. Regulating Place Distinctiveness: A Critique of Approaches to the Protection of Neighborhood Character in Melbourne –Gethin DavisonPart 2. Place/lessness in Experience6. Insideness in an Age of Mobilities –John Tomaney7. Losing Control at Home? –Hazel Easthope8. Tuning In and Out of Place –Rachel Cogger9. The Risk of Placelessness for Children and Young People in the 21st Century Cities of Western Societies –Kate BishopPart 3. Place/lessmess in Practice10. Examining Place-making in Practice: Observations from the Revitalization of Downtown Detroit –Laura Crommelin11. Place-making in the Rise of the Airport City –Robert Freestone and Ilan Wiesel12. Urban Squares: A Place for Social Life –Nancy Marshall13. Placelessness and the Rigid Perception of Place Identities: Public Toilets as Multi-functional Places –Edgar LiuPart 4. Place/lessness in Question14. Extraordinary Ordinaryness: An Outsiders Perspective on Place and Placelessness in the Japanese City –Matthew Carmona15. Extending Place: The Global South and Informal Urbanisms –Aseem Inam16. Place as Multiplicity –Kim DoveyAfterword –Ted Relph Review Ted Relphs notion of placelessness opened up many new possibilities of how we understand the slippery notion of place. Many of them are realized in this multidisciplinary collection. With case studies that range from graffiti to malls and airports and with examples from Detroit to Melbourne and Seoul, it is a welcome contribution that explores how the social constructions of space create different places.John Rennie Short is the author of Human Geography: A Short Introduction.Relphs "Place and Placelessness" Is the one seminal work that gave rise to a whole literature on the subject of place. Its about time that we look back to our original source of inspiration.YiFu Tuan, University of WisconsinMadisonAs claims to place-making proliferate in these neo-liberal times, the wide-ranging essays in this 40th anniversary homage to Place and Placelessness update both theory and practice in a global context.Professor John Punter, Cardiff University Awarded a commendation in the Cutting Edge Research and Teaching category of the 2016 Awards for Planning Excellence from the Planning Institue of Australia (NSW Chapter). Review Quote Ted Relphs notion of placelessness opened up many new possibilities of how we understand the slippery notion of place. Many of them are realized in this multidisciplinary collection. With case studies that range from graffiti to malls and airports and with examples from Detroit to Melbourne and Seoul, it is a welcome contribution that explores how the social constructions of space create different places.John Rennie Short is the author of Human Geography: A Short Introduction. Relphs "Place and Placelessness" Is the one seminal work that gave rise to a whole literature on the subject of place. Its about time that we look back to our original source of inspiration. YiFu Tuan, University of WisconsinMadison As claims to place-making proliferate in these neo-liberal times, the wide-ranging essays in this 40th anniversary homage to Place and Placelessness update both theory and practice in a global context.Professor John Punter, Cardiff University Awarded a commendation in the Cutting Edge Research and Teachingcategory of the 2016 Awards for Planning Excellence from the Planning Institue of Australia (NSW Chapter). Details ISBN1138937118 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd ISBN-10 1138937118 ISBN-13 9781138937116 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Edgar Liu Year 2016 Short Title PLACE & PLACELESSNESS REVISITE Language English Media Book DEWEY 307.1216 Affiliation UNSW Australia Pages 278 Series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design Publication Date 2016-05-26 AU Release Date 2016-05-26 NZ Release Date 2016-05-26 UK Release Date 2016-05-26 Author Edgar Liu Illustrations 2 Tables, black and white; 53 Halftones, black and white Alternative 9780815381990 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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