- 244 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Designing the Compassionate City outlines an approach to urban design that is centred on an explicit recognition of the inherent dignity of all people. It suggests that whether we thrive or decline—as individuals or as a community—is dependent on our ability to fulfil the full spectrum of our needs. This book considers how our surroundings help or hinder us from meeting these needs by influencing both what we can do and what we want to do; either inspiring us to lead healthy, fulfilled lives or consigning us to diminished lives tainted by ill health and unfulfilled potential.
Designing the Compassionate City looks at how those who participate in designing towns and cities can collaborate with those who live in them to create places that help people to accumulate the life lessons, experiences and achievements, as well as forge the connections to meet their needs, to thrive and to fulfil their potential. The book explores a number of inspiring case studies that have sought to meet this challenge and examines what has worked and what hasn't. From this, some conclusions are drawn about how we can all participate in creating places that leave a lasting legacy of empowerment and commitment to nurturing one another. It is essential reading for students and practitioners designing happier, healthier places.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Human Needs
- 3 Embedding and Receiving the Messages in the Urban Environment
- 4 What Makes a Place Nurturing or Neglectful?
- 5 Living in the Compassionate City
- 6 Play Quarters, London: Breaking down the barriers to playing out on the streets of London
- 7 Benches Collective, Various Locations in The Netherlands and Overseas: Cultivating street life
- 8 Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London: Protecting and enhancing accessible wilderness
- 9 De Ceuvel, Amsterdam: Inspiring waterside rehabilitation
- 10 Woonerven, The Netherlands and Overseas: Hardwiring streets to be shared
- 11 Christie Walk, Adelaide: Designing to inspire, community-led urban infill residential development
- 12 The Secular Pilgrimage and South Melbourne Commons, Melbourne: Recognizing and respecting the many layers of an inner-urban, gentrifying community
- 13 Stewartstown Road Centre, Belfast: Softening the barriers between communities
- 14 UN Habitat Placemaking Projects in West Bank Villages, Palestine: Self-determination 101
- 15 The Obstacles and Pitfalls to Creating Places Where People Thrive
- 16 Designing the Compassionate City
- 17 The Characteristics of the Compassionate City
- 18 Applying Compassionate City Principles
- 19 Conclusions
- Index