Place and Placelessness Revisited

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Robert Freestone (University of New South Wales, Australia.) Edgar Liu (UNSW Australia)

Place and Placelessness Revisited

Robert Freestone (University of New South Wales, Australia.), Edgar Liu (UNSW Australia)

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Routledge
26 May 2016

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban communities; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph’s Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design. For four decades, ideas put forward by this seminal work have continued to spark debates, from the concept of placelessness itself through how it plays out in our societies to how city designers might respond to its challenge in practice.

Drawing on evidence from Australian, British, Japanese, and North and South American urban settings, Place and Placelessness Revisited is a collection of cutting edge empirical research and theoretical discussions of contemporary applications and interpretations of place and placelessness. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach, including contributions from across the breadth of disciplines in the built environment – architecture, environmental psychology, geography, landscape architecture, planning, sociology, and urban design – in critically re-visiting placelessness in theory and its relevance for twenty-first century contexts.

Edited by: Robert Freestone (University of New South Wales Australia.), Edgar Liu (UNSW Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 9781138937116
ISBN 10: 1138937118
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 26 May 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword –Tim Cresswell Revisiting Place and Placelessness –Edgar Liu and Robert Freestone 1. The Paradox of Place and the Evolution of Placelessness –Ted Relph Part 1. Place/lessness in Design 2. An Urban Designer’s Perspective: Paradigms, Places and People –Jon Lang 3. Theory’s Role in Placelessness –Lucy Montague 4. Reclaiming and Making and Places of Distinction through Landscape Architecture –Linda Corkery 5. Regulating Place Distinctiveness: A Critique of Approaches to the Protection of ‘Neighborhood Character’ in Melbourne –Gethin Davison Part 2. Place/lessness in Experience 6. Insideness in an Age of Mobilities –John Tomaney 7. Losing Control at Home? –Hazel Easthope 8. Tuning In and Out of Place –Rachel Cogger 9. The Risk of Placelessness for Children and Young People in the 21st Century Cities of Western Societies –Kate Bishop Part 3. Place/lessmess in Practice 10. Examining Place-making in Practice: Observations from the Revitalization of Downtown Detroit –Laura Crommelin 11. Place-making in the Rise of the Airport City –Robert Freestone and Ilan Wiesel 12. Urban Squares: A Place for Social Life –Nancy Marshall 13. Placelessness and the Rigid Perception of Place Identities: Public Toilets as Multi-functional Places –Edgar Liu Part 4. Place/lessness in Question 14. Extraordinary Ordinaryness: An Outsider’s Perspective on Place and Placelessness in the Japanese City –Matthew Carmona 15. Extending Place: The Global South and Informal Urbanisms –Aseem Inam 16. Place as Multiplicity –Kim Dovey Afterword –Ted Relph

Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning in the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW Australia. He joined UNSW in 1991 after six years with Design Collaborative, a Sydney planning, research, and heritage consultancy. He has also held appointments at the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, and the Australian National University. His books include The Planning Imagination (co-editor, 2014), Urban Nation (2012), and Designing Australian Cities (2004). Edgar Liu is a Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre in the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW Australia. He has academic backgrounds in economic and cultural geography, and his research interests include social aspects of public estate renewals, housing as social welfare, and the conceptualization of human identities.

Reviews for Place and Placelessness Revisited

Ted Relph's notion of placelessness opened up many new possibilities of how we understand the slippery notion of place. Many of them are realized in this multidisciplinary collection. With case studies that range from graffiti to malls and airports and with examples from Detroit to Melbourne and Seoul, it is a welcome contribution that explores how the social constructions of space create different places. John Rennie Short is the author of Human Geography: A Short Introduction. Relph's Place and Placelessness Is the one seminal work that gave rise to a whole literature on the subject of place. It's about time that we look back to our original source of inspiration. Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin-Madison As claims to 'place-making' proliferate in these neo-liberal times, the wide-ranging essays in this 40th anniversary homage to Place and Placelessness update both theory and practice in a global context. Professor John Punter, Cardiff University