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Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place book cover

1st Edition

Community-Built Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place

Edited By Katherine Melcher, Barry Stiefel, Kristin Faurest Copyright 2017
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States. What all these projects have in common is that they involve local volunteers... Read more

　

  1. Introduction: Defining Community-Built

    2. by Barry L. Stiefel, Kristin Faurest, and Katherine Melcher

    Part I: Participation and Empowerment

  2. Community-Built as a Professional Practice

    3. by Katherine Melcher

  3. Kalaka: Four Stories about Community Building in a New Democracy

    4. by Kristin Faurest

  4. Reflections on Community Engagement: Making Meaning of Experience

    5. by Terry L. Clements and C.L. Bohannon

  5. Impacts of Participatory Mural Making on Youth Empowerment

    6. by Tiva Lasiter

    　

    Part II: Culture and Identity

  6. Community Eruvin: Architecture for Semi-Public/Private Neighborhood Space

    7. by Barry L. Stiefel

  7. Community-Built and Preserved Material Culture: Square-log Cabins in the Village of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec

    8. by Mariana Esponda Cascajares

  8. Constructing and Preserving History Through Community Art Projects

    9. by Anastasia L. Pratt

  9. Yellow Star Houses: a Community Generated Living History Project in Budapest

    10. by Ildikó Réka Báthory-Nagy

    　

    Part III: Local Control of Place

  10. Building Informal Infrastructures: Architects in Support of Bottom-up Community Services and Social Solidarity in Budapest

    11. by Daniela Patti and Levente Polyak

  11. The Main Street Approach to Community Design

    12. by Jeremy C. Wells

  12. Building Streets and Building Community

    13. by Katherine Melcher

    　

  13. Conclusion: Valuing Community-Built

by Kristin Faurest, Barry L. Stiefel, and Katherine Melcher

　

List of Contributors

Biography

Katherine Melcher is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design, U.S. Her research focuses on the interaction between design and community development—in particular, participatory processes in the design of community spaces. Her design work has been featured in Landscape Architecture, Designer/Builder, 1000x Landscape Architecture, and Architecture for Change.

Barry L. Stiefel is an Associate Professor in the Historic Preservation and Communty Planning program at the College of Charleston, U.S. He is interested in how the sum of how local preservation efforts affects regional, national, and multi-national policies within the field of cultural resource management and heritage conservation. Dr. Stiefel has published numerous books and articles.

Kristin Faurest worked as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, where she taught and researched in the areas of community-based planning, social justice in spatial planning, and the connections between culture and landscape. Last year she returned to her native U.S. to direct the Portland Japanese Garden's new International Institute for Japanese Garden Arts and Culture in Portland, Oregon.

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