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Title:
Diálogos : placemaking in Latino communities / edited by Michael Rios and Leonardo Vazquez, with Lucrezia Miranda.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xxii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Hispanic Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
Hispanic Americans--Government relations.
Hispanic Americans--Housing.
Place (Philosophy)--Social aspects--United States.
Place attachment--Social aspects--United States.
Public spaces--Social aspects--United States.
Community organization--United States--Planning.
Other Authors:
Rios, Michael.
Vazquez, Leonardo.
Miranda, Lucrezia.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Forward / Ray Suarez -- Introduction : place as space, action, and identity / Michael Rios, Leonardo Vasquez and Lucrezia Miranda -- Historical overview of Latinos and planning in the Southwest, 1900 to present / Clara Irazábal and Ramzi Farhat -- Planning in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment : Latino immigrants and land use conflicts in Orange County, California / Stacy Anne Harwood -- Transnational placemaking in small-town America / Gerardo Sandoval -- Using culture as a competitive advantage : attracting cultural tourism in Latino neighborhoods / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris -- Public space attachments for Latino and immigrant communities : a case study of MacArthur Park / Kelly Main -- Latinos and incremental construction : a case study of Texas colonias / Cecilia Giusti and Miriam Olivares -- Placemaking in New York City : from Puerto Rican to pan-Latino / Tom Angotti -- Planning against displacement : a decade of progressive community-based planning in San Francisco's Mission District / Fernando Marti ... [et al.] -- Finding a place called "home" : homemaking as placemaking for Guatemalan immigrants in South Florida / Kasama Polakit and Yexsy Schomberg -- Planning for possible futures : the role of scenario planning in cross-cultural deliberation / Marisa A. Zapata -- Through the viewfinder : using multimedia techniques to engage Latino youth in community planning / Debra Flanders Cushing, Emily Wexler Love, and Willem van Vliet -- 17th and South Jackson : relocating Casa Latina and navigating cultural crossroads in Seattle / Pam Emerson and Jeffrey Hou -- Epilogue / Leonardo Vasquez and Michael Rios
ISBN:
041567901X (pb : alk. paper)
9780415679015 (pb : alk. paper)
0415679001 (hb : alk. paper)
9780415679008 (hb : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)706022680
LCCN:
2011028446
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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