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Small Change

About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

By: Nabeel Hamdi

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Small Change

About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

By: Nabeel Hamdi

What exactly is 'small change'? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban participatory development and the master of the art, Small Change brings over three decades of experience and knowledge to bear on the question 'what is practice'?. Through an easy-to-read narrative style, and using examples from the North and South, the author sheds light on this question and the issues that stem from it - issues relating to political context, the lessons of the 'informal city', and the pursuit of learning that challenges convention. The result is a comprehensive, yet imaginative, guide to the forms of knowledge, competencies and ways of thinking that are fundamental to skilful practice in urban development. This is powerful, informed, critical and inspiring reading for practitioners in the field, students and teachers of urban development, those who manage international aid and everyone looking to build their community.

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1849772533

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The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

By: Nabeel Hamdi

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The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

By: Nabeel Hamdi

This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice can make space for big and lasting change and for new opportunities to be discovered. It points to ways of building synergy and negotiating our way in the social and political spaces ‘in between’ conventional and often competing ideals – public and private interests, top down and bottom up, formal and informal, the global agendas which outsiders promote and the local needs of insiders, for example. It offers guidance on process, designed to close gaps and converge worlds which we know have become divisive and discriminatory, working from the detail of everyday life in search of beginnings that count, building out and making meaningful locally, the abstractions of the global causes we champion – poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, resilience. Practice – the collective process by which decisions are negotiated, plans designed and actions taken in response to needs and aspirations, locally and globally – we will see, is not just about being practical, but more. Its purpose is to give structure to our understanding of the order and disorder in our cities today, then to disturb that order when it has become inefficient or inequitable, even change it. It is to add moral value to morally questionable planning practice and so build "a social economy for the satisfaction of human need." Practice in these spaces ‘in-between’ redraws the boundaries of expectation of disciplinary work and offers a new high ground of moral purpose from which to be more creative, more integrated, more relevant, more resourceful – more strategic.

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197

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1317681053

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The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

By: Nabeel Hamdi

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The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

By: Nabeel Hamdi

This is a guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.

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1136540970

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Small Change

About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

By: Nabeel Hamdi

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About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

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The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

By: Nabeel Hamdi

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Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

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The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

By: Nabeel Hamdi

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The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

By: Nabeel Hamdi

From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by practitioners when working to improve the communities, lives and livelihoods of people the world over. The book shows how these complexities are a context for, rather than a barrier to, creative work. The book also critiques the single vision top down approach to design and planning. Using examples of successful professional practice across Europe, the US, Africa, Latin America and post-tsunami Asia, the author demonstrates how good policy can derive from good practices when reasoned backwards, as well as how plans can emerge in practice without a preponderance of planning. Reasoning backwards is shown to be a more effective and inclusive way of planning forwards with significant improvements to the quality of process and place. The book also offers a variety of methods and tools for analyzing the issues, engaging with communities and other stakeholders for design and settlement planning and for improving the skills of all involved in placemaking. Ultimately the book serves as an inspiring guide, and a distillation of decades of practical wisdom and experience. The resulting practical handbook is for all those involved in doing, learning and teaching placemaking and urban development world-wide. (publisher)

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1849775176

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The Placemakers' Guide to Building Community

By: Nabeel Hamdi

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1844078027

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Making Microplans

A Community-based Process in Design and Development

By: Reinhard Goethert,Nabeel Hamdi

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Making Microplans

A Community-based Process in Design and Development

By: Reinhard Goethert,Nabeel Hamdi

Microplanning is a community-based process which enables local people to prepare and implement programmes for settlement upgrading. Local participants contribute to both the content and structure of programmes. Case studies from Chile and Sri Lanka.

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Intermediate Technology

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1853390852

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Small Change

Small Change

The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

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The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

Small Change

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The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

The Placemakers' Guide to Building Community

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