John F. Forester (Editor)
John F. Forester is a professor in the City and Regional
Planning Department at Cornell University. He has studied the
challenges of urban planning by assessing practice-focused oral
histories of planners and public dispute mediators. Forester’s work
on power, political conversation, dealing with differences, and
practical improvisation has appeared in Planning in the Face of
Power, Deliberative Practitioner: Making Participatory Planning
Work, Dealing with Differences, Planning in the Face of Conflict,
and Making Equity Planning Work (with the late Norman Krumholz).
For planners and urban designers, residents, and community
organizers, this is simply the best text available for
understanding how to create more just, beautiful, convivial, and
safe places. And Forester’s eloquent afterword on the relevance of
these stories in the time of pandemic and white supremacy is
essential reading. This book is a gift of hope and possibility,
revealing how the participatory art and craft of placemaking can be
a small laboratory for democracy.
*Leonie Sandercock, Professor in Community Planning, School of
Community & Regional Planning, University of British Columbia*
John Forester’s new book is a riveting account of the art of
place-making. Awesome teaching material, offering deep insights to
students, scholars, and practitioners in the field of urban
planning.
*Benjamin Davy, former President of the Association of European
Schools of Planning*
The best of John Forester’s outstanding body of work. The stories
are honest expressions of how expert knowledge and local knowledge
commingle, mutually reinforce, and interrogate meanings and the
physical world. Each accounting demonstrates how placemaking
practices create meaningful relationships between and among people
in places they have come to love.
*Lynda H. Schneekloth and Robert Shibley, University at Buffalo,
co-authors of Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building
Communities*
This well-compiled volume reflects the enormous challenges that
planners, seeking to be place makers, have to face and address in
times of globalization, digitalization, climate change, and
populism.
*Klaus R. Kunzmann, Professor Emeritus, TU Dortmund, Germany, and
founding president of the Association of European Schools of
Planning*
How Spaces Become Places captures the extraordinary power of
seemingly ordinary actions through which artists, designers,
planners, and community organizers overcome challenges, uncover
possibilities, and in the process transform places and politics.
John Forester has demonstrated once again the importance of doing,
listening, and storytelling.
*Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of
Washington, and editor of Insurgent Public Space and Transcultural
Cities*
A wealth of inspiring experience from practitioners of
participatory democracy. Bright lights in a dark time, these
stories illuminate paths to creating places that are memorable,
beloved, and just.
*Anne Whiston Spirn, author of The Granite Garden and The Language
of Landscape*
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