Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry [Hardcover]

This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relationships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The chapters address themes, processes, approaches, and research methodologies drawn from examples in Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Ukraine. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning, community development, artistic intervention, and public participation in cultural mappingrecognizing that public involvement and artistic practices introduce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process, from the gathering of data, to interpreting data, to presenting findings to a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situate the practice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

1. Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry: Introduction to an Emerging Field of Practice  Nancy Duxbury, W. F. Garrett-Petts and David MacLennan  Part I: Mapping the Contours of an Emerging Field  2. Cultural Mapping and Planning for Sustainable Communities  Graeme Evans  3. One Strategy, Many Purposes: A Classification for Cultural Mapping Projects  Leonardo Chiesi and Paolo Costa  4. Cultural Mapping: Analyzing Its Meanings in Policy Documents  Eleonora Redaelli  5. Cultural Mapping in OntarlӤ