The Paradox of Urban Space Inequality and Transformation in Marginalized Communities

by Sutton, Sharon E.; Kemp, Susan P.

• ISBN13: 9780230103917
• ISBN10: 023010391X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Sutton, Kemp, and their contributors demonstrate the importance of place as both a site of oppression and transformation, offering theoretically-grounded placemaking strategies that agents of change in a variety of disciplines can use in working with both youth and adults. Their essays lay out a theoretical terrain and case studies put theory into practice. This exciting new work documents the persistent intersection of race, place, and power; illustrates the placemaking strategies that enable grassroots resistance; and explores the novel professional roles that new technologies make possible. It concludes with a placemaking model for resisting and transforming the relentless march of global capitalism.

Author Biography

Sharon E. Sutton is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Washington with degrees in music, architecture, psychology, and philosophy. Author of Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power, and Poetry of a Sustainable Society, she is a fellow in the American Institute of Architects, a distinguished professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and an inductee in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. She previously practiced architecture in New York City and, as a musician, performed for the Bolshoi and other ballet companies, and in several Broadway hits. Susan P. Kemp is the Charles O. Cressey Endowed Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work. She specializes in environmental and community-based interventions, low-income children and families, public child welfare, and social work history and theory. Co-author of Person-Environment Practice: The Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping and co-editor of Communities, Neighborhoods, and Health: Expanding the Boundaries of Place, she received a PhD with distinction from Columbia University School of Social Work.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction: Place as Marginality and Possibility	p. 1
Place, Race, and Power
Place: A Site of Social and Environmental Inequity	p. 13
Struggling for the Right to Housing: A Critical Analysis of the Evolution of West Seattle's High Point	p. 29
The Ultimate Team Sport?: Urban Waterways and Youth Rowing in Seattle	p. 53
Recognizing the Lived Experience of Place: Challenges to Genuine Participation in Redeveloping Public Housing Communities	p. 73
Beyond Insiders and Outsiders: Conceptualizing Multiple Dimensions of Community Development Stakeholders	p. 91
Placemaking as Living Democracy
Place: A Site of Individual and Collective Transformation	p. 113
"Leaders of Today, Builders of Tomorrow": Transforming Youth and Communities in Urban Youth Programs	p. 135
Supporting Grassroots Resistance: Sustained Community-University Partnerships to Contest Chicago's HOPE VI Program	p. 157
Mutual Learning in a Community-University Partnership: What Design-Build Projects Contribute to Placemaking and Placemakers	p. 175
New Tools, New Professional Roles
Transforming Communities through Mapping: Harnessing the Potential of New Technologies	p. 187
On the Social Construction of Place: Using Participatory Methods and Digital Tools to Reconceive Distressed Urban Neighborhoods	p. 205
Documenting (In)Justice: Community-based Participatory Research and Video	p. 223
Socially Conscious Design in the Information Age: The Practice of an Architecture for Humanity	p. 241
Conclusions: Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder in a Place-conscious Society	p. 259
List of Contributors	p. 267
Index	p. 273
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