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作者

来源

LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING,Vol.173,P.1-8

语言

英文

关键字

Landscape; Urban planning; Neighborhood management; Community based research; Communalism; Urban greening

作者单位

[Gillette, Maris Boyd] Univ Gothenburg, Sch Global Studies, Box 700, S-40350 Gothenburg, Sweden. [Hurley, Andrew] Univ Missouri, Dept Hist, One Univ Blvd, St Louis, MO 63121 USA. Gillette, MB (reprint author), Univ Gothenburg, Sch Global Studies, Box 700, S-40350 Gothenburg, Sweden. E-Mail: maris.gillette@gu.se; ahurley@umsl.edu

摘要

Authorized discourses of landscape value omit key qualities that make places valuable to the people who inhabit them. Here we present a community-based research initiative in which residents of two urban St Louis neighborhoods identified meaningful sites and sights in their locale. Using photographs and narration, they traced the contours of a "community landscape" characterized by heterogeneity, social relationships, creative practice, and a communalist model of human-nature relations. Inventoried, archived, and located on a digital mapping tool, their vision serves as a resource for neighborhood identity and collective decision-making. The insights produced by this type of project could productively inform urban planning and land management, and empower residents to decide what merits protection, reproduction, or alteration in the places where they live.