Connecting Places, Connecting People

Reena Tiwari is a professor of Built Environment at Curtin University, Australia. She has published extensively on space psychology and place making; urban ethnography and community engagement; sustainable transport and urbanism. Fundamental to her work on urban transport and place making is the philosophy of democratic urbanism and a model of enquiry that is ethnographic, collaborative and trans-disciplinary, and has the goal of facilitating change and adaptation for all involved in the process.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueForeword by Professor Peter NewmanPart I: The ConceptChapter 1 Connecting Places, Connecting PeopleChapter 2 Connecting Places for Better CommunitiesPart II: Mapping the Context: Urban Reconfigurations Chapter 3 Reconfiguring Movement Chapter 4 ‘Making’ Places: Urban & Suburban TransformationsPart III: Connecting Places, Connecting People: Making it Happen! Chapter 5 Remodeling Approaches: Empowering Place Making and ConnectivityChapter 6 Evaluating People, Place & Transport ConnectivityPart IV: The Future Chapter 7 Emerging Challenges—Connected Places in the Global SouthChapter 8 Emerging Challenges—Technology Mega-trends & Demographic ShiftsEpilogue: Ethnography of Place and MovementIndex

'This is a timely and insightful book, which will be of great value to researchers, practitioners and students. It highlights the paradigm shift from car-based to place-based urban planning, and provides a conceptual framing, auditing tools and practical examples of how this transition can be achieved, working closely with local communities.'Peter Jones, OBE, Scientific Co-ordinator, CREATE, Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development and Director, University College London, UK'Reena Tiwari’s book is a timely guide for remaking our cities and movement systems into people-oriented places. Connecting Places, Connecting People provides a multifaceted assessment of transformative implementation strategies drawn from around the globe that make this book a must have for planners everywhere.'GB Arrington, Principal, GB Place Making'Reena Tiwari’s Connecting Places, Connecting People is an important contribution to the discourse on how we create sustainable cities in the 21st century. Her thesis enables a paradigm shift in popular urban planning principles by prioritizing people over vehicles to recreate more livable, sustainable cities. The practical audit tool she has developed is rooted in a wealth of good practice from around the globe, and provides a final positive outlook on the future of the city by 2050.'Holger Dalkmann, Director, Strategy and Global Policy; EMBARQ Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, World Resources Institute