Designing Signals of Inclusion A Framework for Fostering Shared Neighborhoods

Preface

1. Introduction: Signals of Inclusion

Lawrence J. Vale and Tali Hatuka  

Part I: Indexing  

2. Nodding Acknowledgements - Public Realm Journeys of Inclusion Between the Formal and Informal Divide in Medellín 

Jota Samper

3. Sharing Soundscapes - Sounds like Saturday: The Sonic and Olfactory Dimensions of Inclusion in a Sicilian Market Neighborhood  

Carmelo Ignaccolo and Lawrence J. Vale

4. Linking Thresholds - Life Between Trailers: Enabling Inclusion in Mobile Home Parks  

Zachary Lamb

5. Regenerating Publics - Developmental Inclusion: Neighborhood Opportunities and Public Realm Obstacles in Plymouth, U.K.

Alessandro Aurigi 

6. Timing Territories - Layered Realities at the Intersection Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv  

Tali Hatuka

7. Programming Process - Who is Centered in Central Square? Signaling Inclusive Heterogeneity through Processes and Programming 

Lawrence J. Vale and Yvette Kleinbock

8. Planning Mix - Portland’s Pearl District and its Signaling of Multidimensional Inclusion 

George Galster

9. Associating Neighbors - The Inclusivity of Neighborhoods: The Role of Neighborhood Associations in Chicago 

Emily Talen

10. Inclusion as Innovation in Privatized China: Pursuing Openness, Coexistence, and Ownership Against the Grain 

Colleen Chiu-Shee

11. Forming Recognition - Localized Recognition: How Local Services and Civic Attention Signal Inclusion in Toronto’s Inner Suburbs  

Daniel Silver

Part II: Fostering  

12. Prologue: Navigating from Concepts to Actions 

Vikas Mehta

13. Revisiting Signals - Engaging with Inclusion 

Lawrence J. Vale, Tali Hatuka, George Galster, and Daniel Silver

14. Decoding Inclusion - Processes, Politics, and Ethics of Signaling 

Jota Samper, Colleen Chiu-Shee, and Carmelo Ignaccolo

15. Advancing Inclusion - Signals for Inclusion in Practice 

Alessandro Aurigi, Zachary Lamb, and Vikas Mehta

16. Designing Signals of Inclusion: A Manifesto

The Signals of Inclusion Team

Biography

Tali Hatuka is Professor of Urban Design and Planning at Tel Aviv University, where she leads the Leventer Laboratory for Urban Design (LLUD). She has written extensively on contested spaces, public spaces, and urban planning, and has been honored with awards for her contributions.

Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, where he is Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. He is the
author or editor of 13 previous books examining urban design, housing, and planning, seven of which have won national or international prizes.

"There could not be a timelier moment for this original and thought-provoking book. The urgency of the moment compels a reckoning with the intensifying divisions that continue to divide cities and their citizens. Designing Signals of Inclusion offers a set of tangible practices that will sustain hope that constructive change is possible. Built on grounded research showing how and why planning and design strategies can help create unity at the built-environmental scale, this book details a range of communicative, governance, and spatial strategies for fostering inclusion. With a well-articulated action-theoretic manifesto in its final pages, this book is a must-read for those who care about urban futures and how to create places where all belong."

Diane E. Davis, Harvard Graduate School of Design, CIFAR Fellow and Co-Director, Humanity's Urban Future 

"What does a more inclusive society actually look and feel like to the people who live in it? This wise collection of essays draws on observational accounts of what is working at the neighborhood scale, from the markets of Sicily to the mobile home parks of Northern California. Designing Signals of Inclusion offers paths forward for advocates, policymakers, designers, and, most of all, citizens, to envision and achieve a shared sense of community across lines of difference."

Heather McGhee, Author, The Sum of Us