{"id":1319,"date":"2021-01-21T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2021-01-29T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T13:38:54","slug":"place-parts-episode-3-the-storybook-and-the-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/place-parts-episode-3-the-storybook-and-the-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Place Parts, Episode 3: The Storybook and the Real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 3, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781538133248\/Sustaining-a-City's-Culture-and-Character-Principles-and-Best-Practices\">Sustaining a City\u2019s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices<\/a><\/em>, available very shortly in the United States, and eventually, around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we follow up <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/19\/place-parts-episode-2-place-time-and-ideas\/\">Episode 2<\/a>, which provided a primer on the multidimensional aspects of place, with another important book focus: how we evaluate successful places and avoid a mere storybook picture rather than a realistic, evolving blend?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nhyIWSgYWjw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In day-to-day city life, I have spoken with several friends\u2014both neighbors and peer professionals\u2014who haven\u2019t needed a generic list of attributes to understand places that resonate with residents and visitors. They describe a sense of place, perhaps derived organically from a historic asset, or a set of traditionalist architecture and urban design principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video, I briefly share the contrasts displayed today in Newbury, Berkshire, England, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshirehistory.com\/villages\/newbury.html\">planned market town<\/a> dating from the 11th century.  The friends and professionals noted above often regret some scenes which I share in the video, where iconic storybook imagery is displaced by the sights and sounds of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to achieve sustainable blends of the storybook with the synthetic and discordant? Stay tuned for more examples and conversations, to help keep us mindful of the stereotypical versus the real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Review the special \u201clanding page\u201d for&nbsp;<em>Sustaining a City\u2019s Culture and Character<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/page.rowman.com\/pages\/16609\/26636\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 3, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book,&nbsp;Sustaining a City\u2019s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices, available very shortly in the United States, and eventually, around the world.&nbsp; Today, we follow up Episode 2, which provided a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,24,7,984,989,782,22],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cities","tag-culture","tag-people","tag-placemaking","tag-placeparts","tag-sustainability","tag-urbanism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sustainingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1041.jpg?fit=1037%2C691&quality=89&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc03Hh-lh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}