Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the same, and gentrification displaces many original neighborhood residents, we are left with a sense that our cities are becoming "hollowed out," bereft of the multi-faceted connections that once rooted us to our communities. And yet, in a world where change is unrelenting, people long for authentic places. This book examines the reasons for and responses to this longing, considering the role of community development in addressing community and neighbourhood authenticity.
A key concept underscoring plannings inherent challenges is the notion of authentic community, ranging from more holistic, and yet highly market-sensitive conceptions of authentic community to appreciating how authenticity helps form and reinforce individual identity. Typically, developers emphasize spaces monetary exchange value, while residents emphasize neighbourhoods use valueincluding how those spaces enrich local community tradition and life. Where exchange value predominates, authenticity is increasingly implicated in gentrification, taking us further from what initially made communities authentic. The hunger for authenticity grows, in spite and because of its ambiguities. This edited collection seeks to explore such dynamics, asking alternately, "How does the definition of authenticity shift in different social, political, and economic contexts?" And, "Can planning promote authenticity? If so, how and under what conditions?" It includes healthy scepticism regarding the concept, along with proposals for promoting its democratic, inclusive expression in neighbourhoods and communities.
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"In our interdependent urban world how do people sustain real community? Tate & Shannon weave sixteen answers into three hopeful strategies: discover and invent objects to moor people to a shared place; perform social actions designed to carve out community spaces; and use purposeful cultural, political and professional strategies to heal spatial rifts hewn by indifferent development. Bravo!" -Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban Planning & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"Planning for AuthentiCITIES is a timely, novel, and stimulating book that will advance conversations and debates about the growing desire for and claims making about "authenticity." Written in an engaging manner and marked by compelling portraits of efforts on the ground to preserve perceived authenticity, this comprehensive text promises to guide conversations within and beyond the classroom about this charged topic. Crucially, this collection provides insights about when, how and whether planners ought to grapple with concerns for authenticity." -Japonica Brown-Saracino, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University, USA
"Planning for AuthentiCITIES contributes in a particularly lively way to our understanding of the role of place, identity and territory in our post-structuralist age. Co-editors Laura Tate and Brettany Shannon have enlisted both established scholars and new talents in a volume which brings to life the dynamics of how we see authenticity as animating city and space, while not shrinking from individual and collective experiences of exclusion, marginality and inequality." -Tom Hutton, Professor of Urban Studies and City Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada
Introduction: Planning for AuthentiCITIES Part I: Mooring
Chapter 1:
Chinatown, not Coffeetown: Authenticity and placemaking in Vancouvers
Chinatown
Chapter 2: Neighbourhood authenticity and sense of place
Chapter 3:
Urban authenticity as a panacea for urban disorder? Business improvement
areas, cultural power, and the worlds of justification
Chapter 4: A framework
of neighbourhood authenticity for urban planning: Three aspects and three
types of change
Chapter 5: Negotiating diversity: The transitioning Greektown
of Baltimore City, Maryland
Chapter 6: Planning and authenticity: A
materialist and phronetic perspective Part II: Performing
Chapter 7:
Authenticity makes the city: How "the authentic" affects the production of
space
Chapter 8: Authenticitys many performances in the urban studies
literature
Chapter 9: Tactical urbanism as the staging of social authenticity
Chapter 10: Sincerity, performative authenticity, and tourism in New Orleans
Chapter 11: Gardening in America
Chapter 12: Utilizing comical mascots
(yuru-kyara) to create city authenticity?
Chapter 13: Authentic Downtown
Project: Intentional community-making in the digital age Part III: Healing
Chapter 14: Relocated authenticity: Placemaking in displacement in southern
Taiwan
Chapter 15: Coding the "authenti-city": North Harbour and Århusgade
Quarter, Copenhagen
Chapter 16: Diįlogos for Latino Communities
Chapter 17:
Planning for reconciliation: Indigenous authenticity in community engagement
and urban planning in Canadian cities
Chapter 18: Urban-social imaginaries of
authenticityand the John Lennon Wall
Laura Tate, PhD (University of British Columbia), is an urban planning scholar, lecturer and consultant. Laura has an extensive practice background in city planning and public health. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and has most recently held the position of Visiting Lecturer at the California Polytechnic State University.
Brettany Shannon, PhD in Urban Planning and Development (University of Southern California), studies how media arts and digital communications intersect with urban and social placemaking. As the USC Bedrosian Center for Governance Scholar-in-Residence, she continues her research in the interview-based podcast, Los Angeles Hashtags Itself.
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