City-making, Space and Spirituality: A Community-Based Urban Praxis with Reflections from South Africa (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

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Series Page
Title Page
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Table of Contents
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List of tables
A Preface: Stories, Being Storied, Re-Storying
Introduction: Why embark on this journey?
	1 Introduction to the journey
	2 The context of the journey
	3 The central concern, proposition and point of departure
	4 How do I approach this journey? Methodological considerations
	5 Own assumptions on the journey
	6 A (concise) clarification of key terms for the journey
	7 Structure of the journey
	8 An invitation on a journey
PART I: Epistemology – Identity – Methodology
	1. “To know as we are known”: Towards a contextual-narrative planning epistemology
		1 Journeying between the paradoxes
		2 Shifting paradigms
		3 Knowing together…
		4 Towards a contextual-narrative approach
	2. “Becoming like children”: Identity and urban praxis
		1 Deconstructing modernist planning
		2 The challenge of software infrastructure
		3 Planning as a political act
		4 Planning as a spiritual act
		5 Re-imagining the art of planning
	3. A praxis-approach to city-making: Critical moments in the urban journey
		Moment 1 Entering urban space
		Moment 2 Reading urban space
		Moment 3 Imagining urban space
		Moment 4 Co-constructing urban space
		At its core: the spirit of the planning process
		1.1 As “flâneur”…
		1.2 …with the eyes of a child…
		1.3 …seeking/choosing community…
		1.4 …in the labyrinth/s; journeys of adventure
		2.1 Reading from the margins…
		2.2 …deconstructing official narratives…
		2.3 …discovering local wisdom; retrieving local narratives…
		2.4 Reading symbolic, nonverbal language
		3.1 …imagining…
		3.2 …nurturing intuition…
		3.3 A hermeneutic of suspicion and a hermeneutic of hunger
		3.4 Critical imagination of an alternative consciousness
		4.1 Journeys of co-construction
		4.2 Co-construction needs community
PART II: Doing the city together
	FIRST MOMENT: Entering urban space
		4. Personal and community narratives: Berea-Burgers Park and Tshwane’s inner city
			1 The story of a neighbourhood: Berea-Burgers Park
			2 Personal Reflections: 1973–2022
			3 The Rewriting of a Story: Narratives from Berea-Burgers Park and Tshwane’s Inner City
	SECOND MOMENT: Reading urban space
		5. Planners, participation, the poor
			1 Perpetual dependence on outsiders: where are the people of the city?
			2 How participatory is participation? Beyond theory toward radical participation/partnership
			3 Where are the poor?
		6. What has become of city-making?: Between fallacy, deficiency,  commodity and conspiracy
			1 How integrated is integrated urban development planning?
			2 Deficiency-based planning models
			3 The fallacy of urban renewal: displacement versus placemaking
			4 Urban space: commodity, gift or threat?
			5 Conspiracies of silence: what planners do not speak about
	THIRD MOMENT: Imagining urban space
		7. Discovering an alternative imagination: towards a spirituality of urban space
			On an ‘alternative imagination’
			On spirituality
			On city-making as vocation
			1 City as womb: beyond skyscraper and battered woman
			2 City as cathedral of the soul
			3 Clown city: a place of fantasy and festivity
				Public art; the urban jester
				Artful urban regeneration
			4 City as community of communities
			5 Sustainable cities, communal econo
			6 Ethical cities
		8. Embodying an alternative imagination: Practising an ethic of urban space
			1 An embodied presence
			2 Interconnected community
			3 The power of peo
	FOURTH MOMENT: Constructing urban space
		9. Communities and movements of hope: Between resistance and reconstruction
			1 Communities of hope
			2 Movements of interconnected communities
			3 On resistance
			4 On reconstruction
		10. Fostering an integrated community-based urban praxis
			1 Co-constructing the city
				INTERRUPTION: A small portfolio of community-based urban engagements
				Tshwane Leadership Foundation; Feast of the Clowns; Yeast City Housing
				Berea Community Forum; Salvokop Development Forum; Tshwane Homelessness Forum
				Burgers Park Village & Berea-Burgers Park Regeneration Initiative
			2 The values, promise and limitations of community-based urban interventions
			3 Cultivating every moment: the journey of a community-based urban praxis
			4 Centering around the “mother bird hovering over urban space”
			5 Fostering community: between resistance and reconstruction
			6 Building on local assets: finding synergies; expanding tables
			7 A multiplicity of small, local solidarities, reclamations & transformations
			8 Weaving a net; spanning the city
			9 Co-constructing hospitable, caring and just urban villages
Conclusion: Leading out faith-fully: when deep speaks to deep
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