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SUMMARY:A placemaker’s guide to building community - Professor Nabeel Ha
 mdi\, Emeritus Professor\, Oxford Brooks University
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CONTACT:Juan José Sarralde
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nDrawing on four decades of practical and teaching 
 experience worldwide\, Nabeel\nHamdi offers fresh insight into the complex
 ities faced by practitioners when working to improve\nthe lives and liveli
 hoods of people the world over. The presentation draws from Hamdiʼs\nupco
 ming book of the same title\, showing how these complexities are a context
  for\, rather than a\nbarrier to\, creative work. Hamdi critiques the ʻsi
 ngle visionʼ top down approach to design and\nplanning. The presentation 
 will demonstrate through examples and profiles of successful\nprofessional
  practice drawn from across Europe\, the US\, Africa\, Latin America and p
 ost- tsunami\nAsia\, how good policy can derive from good practices when 
 ʻreasoned backwards\,ʼ as well as\nhow plans can emerge in practice with
 out a preponderance of planning. Reasoning backwards is\nshown to be a mor
 e effective and inclusive way of planning forwards with significant\nimpro
 vements to the quality of process and place.\n\nBiography: \nNabeel Hamdi 
 qualified as an architect at the Architectural Association in London in 19
 68. He worked\nfor the Grater London Council between 1969 and 1978\, where
  his award-winning housing projects established his\nreputation in partici
 patory design and planning. From 1981-1990 he was Associate Professor of H
 ousing at\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, where he was late
 r awarded a Ford International Career\nDevelopment Professorship. In 1997 
 Nabeel won the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour for his work on Community\nActi
 on Planning\, and the Masters course in Development Practice that he found
 ed at Oxford Brookes University\nin 1992 was awarded the Queenʼs Annivers
 ary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2001.
LOCATION:First-floor Classroom\,  Department of Architecture\, 1-5 Scroope
  Terrace\, Cambridge\, CB2 1PX\, www.arct.cam.ac.uk
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