Place Parts, Episode 11: Book Launch Summit, with Tigran Haas

Summary

The website content announces the launch of "Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character," a book by Dr. Tigran Haas and a collaborator, focusing on urban culture and change, with a discussion on the relevance of interdisciplinary place-making during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abstract

The undefined website celebrates the release of the book "Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character," which delves into the distinctive culture and character of cities, the transformation of urban environments, and the key players involved in these processes. The book's launch is marked by a discussion featuring Dr. Tigran Haas, the Director of the Centre for the Future of Places at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The Centre has been integral in providing a platform for merging practical experiences with interdisciplinary perspectives. A YouTube video embedded on the website features a conversation between Haas and the book's co-author, highlighting the importance of a contextual and interdisciplinary approach to urban development, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is praised for its critical thinking on evolving urban environments, offering insights into understanding cities, applying ideas in local contexts, and learning from examples of corporate and community successes and failures. The book is available in hardback and e-book formats internationally through Amazon and local bookstores.

Opinions

The author(s) believe that an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and developing urban places is crucial, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Centre for the Future of Places is highly regarded for its contributions to the field of urban development over the past several years.
The book is seen as an immersive and critical resource for those interested in the evolution of cities and the importance of community voice in local development.
The author(s) emphasize the value of listening to and working with local residents to achieve successful urban development.
The book's content is considered relevant and applicable across different localities, with examples of both corporate success and community empowerment.

Place Parts, Episode 11: Book Launch Summit, with Tigran Haas

Today, we celebrate Book Launch Day for Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character. This book focuses on the culture and character of one city compared to another, how we distinguish and change urban places, and the actors involved. Please join collaborator Dr. Tigran Haas and me as we discuss the book’s background and evolution.

Tigran is the Director of the Centre for the Future of Places at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Since 2017, the Centre has been my home away from home, and a venue to merge and contrast practical experiences with complex, interdisciplinary points of view.

In the video, we discuss how, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an interdisciplinary and contextual view of place (far beyond the physical and architectural) is more relevant than ever before. We also discuss the many valuable contributions made by the Centre over the past several years.

With this retrospective, I’m excited to share the book’s immersive, critical thinking about changing environments. Chapter 3 explains many ways to understand cities and places. Chapter 5 asks how to apply ideas and tools proven elsewhere in localities that deserve a community voice. Finally, Chapter 6 provides a range of examples, of corporate success and failure, community empowerment, and the magic of listening and working with the expertise of local residents.

Review the special “landing page” for Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character here. The book-in both hardback and e-book editions-is available now internationally on Amazon and local bookstores (with customary delays for books still arriving at warehouses worldwide).

Originally published at https://sustainingplace.com on February 22, 2021.