The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban DesignThis expertly researched book makes a radical case for accessible public art that fosters a powerful civic experience of connection to place. The author advocates narrative, site-specific public art that engages the popular imagination through common references to history, folklore, culture and geography, and demonstrates how the integration of approachable art with local landscape, architecture and urban design can facilitate identification with locale. Dozens of case studies of spectacular and innovative works throughout the United States are accompanied by practical information, cost and policy analysis, artist interviews, examples of failures and major controversies, and strategies for the future, making this book an essential reference for anyone involved with transforming and improving our public spaces. |
Contents
Acknowledgments The Townscape Institute | 7 |
The character of street furniture | 243 |
An armature for placemaking | 244 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design |
| Author | Ronald Lee Fleming |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Merrell, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 19, 2007 |
| ISBN | 185894371X, 9781858943718 |
| Length | 383 pages |
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