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Chapter title	Korvapuusti / A Slap on the Ear
Authors	Charrington, H.
Editors	Kjisik, Hennu
	Nyholm, Charlotte
	de Vocht, Sofia
Abstract	Appreciation of city centres has steadily grown in the last 30 years, as both participative place, and vicariously, as participative idea. Nonetheless, while this status of the city centre is now conventional wisdom, within current urban design and planning it is mainly reduced to 'cookie cutter' or 'potato-print' block plans that diagrammatically recall the traditional city. Simplisitic patterns that mask the commodification of the city which continues apace, paying lip-service to its previous formal attributes, but not to its content and processes. This chapters argues that urbanists' and designers' priorities should lie in a professional agency that reclaims the city through embodying the ambiguous and complex values of the city in the design of resilient – that is to say, durable and embodying character – places, as well as in shifting attention from the creation of new regulated urban areas to interventions in, and the retrofitting of, existing ones.
Keywords	Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architectural History and Theory
Book title	Donitseista muffineiksi / Doughnuts to Muffins
Page range	128-139
Year	2018
Publisher	Rakennustieto Oy
Published	Oct 2018
Place of publication	Helsinki
ISBN	9789522672551

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