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Title: The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History by Dolores Hayden ISBN: 0-262-58152-3 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Power of Place in Planning
Comment: The Historical Perspective:
Hayden is an urban historian; she is concerned with the interpretation of historic places, people, movements and events. She specifically writes about woman's and ethnic histories in urban places. The Power of Place documents both a preservation project and the history to be preserved.
Hayden is involved in a relatively new movement of historians and geographers who are reexamining the use of space by society. Her geographic-historical perspective is reflected in many contemporary scholars, including Michael Dear, Jennifer Wolch, David Harvey, and Henri Lefebver.
Relevance to Planning and Urban Design:
Planners involved in historic preservation should understand that the historic preservation of the architecture and histories of multiple classes, ethnicities, and genders is important. Urban renewal and economic development is a powerful tool that can cleanse the landscape of any references to past inhabitants -- their struggles, lives, and uses of place. As we see with the Biddy Mason wall, good design can acknowledge the existence of previous uses even if no structure remains. With this in mind, there is a considerable amount of history yet to be acknowledged with appropriate monuments. So Hayden defines the power of place as: "The Power of ordinary urban landscape to nurture citizens' public memory, to encompass shared time in the form of shared memory".
A must read for urban planners involved in historic preservation.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nuanced Spatial Critique
Comment: Dolores Hayden's book, The Power of Place, is a comprehensive guide for anyone whose goal is to engage in an examination of spaces and places. It retains a historical perspective that allows the reader to apply the places focused upon by Hayden to his or her own specific spatial examination. While she focuses specific attention on the Los Angeles area, I found her work compatible with any examination of spatial use or spatial history and contextualization. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the power of place.
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Title: Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America by Arnold R. Alanen, Robert Melnick, Delores (Foreword By) Hayden, Dolores Hayden ISBN: 0801862647 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments by M. Christine Boyer ISBN: 026252211X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Icons and Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change by John J. Costonis, Allan B. Jacobs ISBN: 0252015533 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sites of Memory : Perspectives on Architecture and Race by Craig Evan Barton, Dell Upton ISBN: 156898233X Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch ISBN: 0262620014 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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