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Diálogos : placemaking in Latino communities
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- Creator
- edited by Michael Rios and Leonardo Vazquez, with Lucrezia Miranda
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415679008, 0415679001, 9780415679015, 041567901X
- OCLC
- ocn706022680
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.