{"product_id":"city-making-space-and-spirituality-a-community-based-urban-praxis-with-reflections-from-south-africa-9781032372273","title":"City-making, Space and Spirituality: A Community-Based Urban Praxis with Reflections from South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stéphan de Beer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning \u0026amp; Urban Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africa's post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it recognizes that urban space is never neutral and shaped by competing value frameworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part of the book invites planners, city-makers, and ordinary urban citizens, to consider a new self-understanding, reclaiming their agency in the city-making process. Through the metaphor of \"becoming like children\", planning practice is deconstructed and re-imagined. A praxis-based methodology is presented, cultivating four distinct moments of entering, reading, imagining and co-constructing the city. After deconstructing urban spaces and discourses, the second part of the book explores a concrete spirituality and ethic of urban space. It argues for a shift from planning as technocracy, to planning as immersed, participatory artistry: opening up to the \"genius\" of space, responsive to urban cries, and joining to construct new, soul-full spaces. Local communities and interconnected movements become embodiments of urban alternatives - through resistance and reconstruction; building on local assets; animating local reclamations; and weaving nets of hope that will span the entire city. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a concrete methodology for city-making that is rooted in a community-based urban praxis, this book will be of interest to urban planning researchers, professional planners and designers and also grass-root community developers or activists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45243776008343,"sku":"9781032372273","price":3722.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032372273.webp?v=1769235741","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/city-making-space-and-spirituality-a-community-based-urban-praxis-with-reflections-from-south-africa-9781032372273","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}