By Leonardo Ciacci (auth.), Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili (eds.)
This ebook explores the potential for multimedia to complement and rework the making plans box. by means of ‘multimedia’ the authors confer with the mix of a number of contents (both conventional and electronic: texts, nonetheless photos, animations, audio and video productions) and interactive structures (offline interactive cd roms, on-line web pages and boards, electronic environments) that are establishing up new percentages in making plans perform, pedagogy and study. The authors record the ways that multimedia can extend the language of making plans and the creativity of planners; can evoke the lived adventure (the spirit, thoughts, wishes) of the mongrel towns of the 21st century through attractive with tales and storytelling; and will support democratize making plans processes.
The various contributions exhibit multimedia’s strength for layered, complicated and open-ended representations of city lifestyles; for allowing a number of sorts of voice, participation and empowerment; for exciting discussion and influencing coverage; for nurturing group engagement and neighborhood improvement; for increasing the horizons of qualitative and quantitative study; and for transformative studying experiences.
The e-book conveys an pleasure in regards to the ways that multimedia can be utilized by way of activists, immigrant and indigenous groups, making plans students and educators, anyplace city coverage and making plans options are being debated and groups are suffering to form, enhance or defend their existence areas. however the authors transcend enthusiasm for the recent, incorporating a serious stance in regards to the energy family embedded in those new info and communique applied sciences; elevating questions on viewers and political intentions; and outlining moral dilemmas round authorship and possession, collaborative strategies, and the politics of voice.
Leonie Sandercock is the writer of 11 books, together with in the direction of Cosmopolis: making plans for Multicultural towns (1998) and Cosmopolis 2: Mongrel towns of the 21st Century (2003). The latter received the Paul Davidoff Award for top ebook from the yankee Collegiate faculties of making plans. She additionally obtained the Dale Prize for group engagement (2005) and the BMW Award for Intercultural studying (2007).
Giovanni Attili is the recipient of the G. Ferraro Award for top city making plans PhD Thesis in Italy in 2005. he's co-editor of Storie di Citta (2007) and writer of los angeles citta dei migranti (2008), and co-author, with Leonie Sandercock, of the e-book and DVD package deal the place Strangers turn into Neighbours: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada (2009).
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All this, of course, takes on meaning if it is shown to the public. Imagine wanting to communicate a conservation plan for the city of Sana, without explaining what the city of Sana is, where it is, how it is made up and what its history is: no one would understand what you were talking about. In the same way, if the history was not directed towards the plan that motivates it, it would take on a different form, and it would have a different effect on the spectator, who would be identified not by his interest in the conservation of historic cities but by a vague geographical-tourism interest in exotic places.
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2 All the films in the series obviously have the nature of documentaries and were originally used as tools of political-cultural and disciplinary persuasion, or what some might call “propaganda”. Almost all these films were made on the occasion of a public exhibition for the mass circulation of ideas, programmes and town plans. The most obvious aim of all was to convince the public of the social duties and potential of town planning. All the Town Planners’ Cinema documentaries pursue that purpose, proposing the reasons for a specific town plan.