Art of Placemaking Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design

Name: Art of Placemaking Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design
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ISBN: 9781858943718

ISBN-10: 185894371X

ISBN-13: 9781858943718

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ronald Lee Fleming, A.I.C.P.

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This 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…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Merrell Publishers Limited
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.092
Language: English



Acknowledgments


The Townscape Institute


The art of placemaking: an introduction



Case studies


Gateways: creating a sense of arrival


Transit facilities: providing orientation for travelers


Murals: part of a town-enhancement strategy


Integrating placemaking into architecture


Placemaker as turf definer


Sculpture as place setting



Interpreting place: from marker to memory trail


Placemaking interpreted: revisiting the past, revealing future choice



The character of street furniture


An armature for placemaking


Street furniture: a compendium of projects


Benches


Streetlights


Hatch covers and pavements


Gates and fences


Wall decoration


Sculptural elements



Public-art planning: what we have learned from the past


Planning for placemaking


Annotated guide to public-art plans


Failure and the potential for redemption


Curatorial truth and contextual consequences: the evolution of federally funded public art at the GSA and NEA


The artist's perspective: working in the field of public art


Dimitri Gerakaris, artist-metalsmith, New Canaan, New Hampshire


Gregg LeFevre, bronze sculptor, New York


Andrew Leicester, environmental art, Minneapolis


William P. Reimann, stone etchings and sculpture, Cambridge, Massachusetts


T. Ellen Sollod, environmental art, Seattle


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Index