Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place, 1st Edition

Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States. What all these projects have in common is that they involve local volunteers in the construction of public and community places; they are community-built. Although much attention has been given to specific community-built movements such as public murals and community gardens, little has been given to defining community-built as a whole. This volume provides a preliminary description of community-built practices with examples from the disciplines of urban design, historic preservation, and community art. Taken as a whole, these community-built projects illustrate how the process of local involvement in adapting, building, and preserving a built environment can strengthen communities and create places that are intimately tied to local needs, culture, and community. The lessons learned from this volume can provide community planners, grassroots facilitators, and participants with an understanding of what can lead to successful community-built art, construction, preservation, and placemaking.Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place 1st Edition is written by Author and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Community-Built are 9781134823291, 1134823290 and the print ISBNs are 9781138682566, 113868256X. Additional ISBNs include 9781138682580, 9781315545066, 9781134823369, 9781134823222.