Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago. Her research is devoted to urban design and the relationship between the built environment and social equity. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners."...written in support of those who believe neighbourhoods should be genuinely relevant in our lives... places that provide an essential context for daily life... identifiable, serviced, diverse, connected. Their primary purpose would not be social separation." pic.twitter.com/pKdQ2zB3Hj
— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) November 11, 2020
● Traces the historical progression of how neighbourhoods are defined, designed, ascribed purpose, and attributed effect.
● Integrates a complex historical record and multidisciplinary literature to produce a singular resource for understanding what is meant by neighbourhood.
● Offers a rebuttal to the ongoing problematizing of neighbourhood as exclusionary.
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