Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning : Beyond the Flatlands - Sandercock, Leonie; Attili, Giovanni; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
ETHNOGRAPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY, HISTORY -- Film Works Wonders: Analysis, History and Town Plan United in a Single Representation -- From the Campfire to the Computer: An Epistemology of Multiplicity and the Story Turn in Planning -- Beyond the Flatlands: Digital Ethnographies in the Planning Field -- CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES -- Mobilizing the Human Spirit: An Experiment in Film as Social Research, Community Engagement and Policy Dialogue -- (Re)Presenting the Street: Video and Visual Culture in Planning -- Digital Media and the Politics of Disaster Recovery in New Orleans -- Social Justice and Video: Imagining as a Right in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside -- "The Beginning of Something": Using Video as a Tool in Community Engagement -- "La Campagna che si fa Metropoli": Film as Discovery -- Representations of an Unsettled City: Hypermedial Landscapes in Rome -- Seeing and Being Seen: The Potential of Multimedia as a Reflexive Planning Methodology -- TEACHING WITH/THROUGH MULTIMEDIA IN PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Participatory Design and Howard Roark: The Story of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center -- Learning as an Aesthetic Experience: Digital Pedagogies in Planning Didactics -- Cinema and the "City of the Mind": Using Motion Pictures to Explore Human-Environment Transactions in Planning Education -- Stinging Real! Four Essays on the Transformative Power of Films and Storytelling in Planning Education -- Conclusions.
Keywords: Human geography; Regional planning; Urban planning; Culture-Study and teaching; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional and Cultural Studies