Overview
- Refers to the new information and communication technologies in planning transformation
- The examples described are the latest contemporary practice
- Co-editors are internationally acknowledged innovators in the planning field
Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives (URBANLAND, volume 7)
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Table of contents(16 chapters)
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ETHNOGRAPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY, HISTORY
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CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES
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TEACHING WITH/THROUGH MULTIMEDIA IN PLANNING AND DESIGN
About this book
The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and research. The authors document the ways in which these ICTs can expand the language of planning and the creativity of planners; can evoke the lived experience (the spirit, memories, desires) of our 21st century mongrel cities by engaging with stories and storytelling; and can democratise planning practices.
The text is epistemologically radical, in presenting an argument for the importance of "multiple languages" (ways of knowing) in the planning field, and making the connection between this epistemology and the almost infinite potential of Multimedia to provide varied tools to accomplish this transformation, displacing the supremacy of the rational, linear and hierarchical with more open, playful and imaginative approaches. Each of the authors brings practical experience with different forms of Multimedia use and reflects on the different potentialities offered by Multimedia for critical intervention in urban and regional issues, and the power dynamics embedded in such interventions.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This is a very admirable collection of essays, which greatly advances the intellectual project of treating stories and storytelling as crucial parts of planning and urban transformation. … essays are meritorious, I find several of them to be especially valuable. … the book is well worth reading by anyone interested in this particular frontier. … Sandercock and Attili have provided a very fine piece of work … . I would strongly encourage Sandercock and Attili to expand on this brilliant exploration of the frontier … .” (James Throgmorton, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 31 (1), 2011)Editors and Affiliations
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School of Community & Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Leonie Sandercock
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Dipt. di Architettura ed Unrbanistica, "University of Rome ""La Sapienza""", Rome, Italy
Giovanni Attili
About the editors
Leonie Sandercock is the author of ten books, the most recent of which include Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities (1998) and Cosmopolis 2: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century (2003). The latter book won the Paul Davidoff Award for best book awarded by the American Collegiate Schools of Planning. She also received the Dale Prize for Community Planning (2005), and the BMW Award for Intercultural Learning (2007), for her paper on 'Cosmopolitan Urbanism'. She co-authored with Giovanni Attili the book and DVD package Where Strangers become Neighbours: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada (Springer, 2009).
Giovanni Attili is an Urban Planning PHD, Research Fellow at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver). He is recipient of the G.Ferraro Award for the best Urban Planning PhD Thesis in Italy in 2005. He is co-editor of the book "Storie di Citta" (Edizioni Interculturali, 2007), author of the book "La citta dei migranti" (Jaca Book, 2008) and co-author of the book and DVD package Where Strangers become Neighbours: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada (Springer, 2009).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Flatlands
Editors: Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili
Series Title: Urban and Landscape Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3209-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3208-9Published: 25 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3219-3Published: 28 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3209-6Published: 10 April 2010
Series ISSN: 1877-7139
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1200
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 390
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional and Cultural Studies