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This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing ‘bottom up’ community initiatives successfully.It highlights the dynamics involved in shaping the content of a neighbourhood plan and the implications of the different ways in which a place is constructed. The book challenges the notions of a singular place that is described in a neighbourhood plan. It examines conceptual, thematic, strategic and performative constructions of place and the capacity for neighbourhood plans to be developed within this context. It explores the value of connecting the formulation of a neighbourhood plan with the emergence of a relevant local plan, allowing for more meaningful local influence on strategic policymaking.With first-hand insights on neighbourhood planning, this book offers a novel contribution to the fields of planning, urban studies, and urban geography.

This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing ‘bottom up’ community initiatives successfully.It highlights the dynamics involved in shaping the content of a neighbourhood plan and the implications of the different ways in which a place is constructed. The book challenges the notions of a singular place that is described in a neighbourhood plan. It examines conceptual, thematic, strategic and performative constructions of place and the capacity for neighbourhood plans to be developed within this context. It explores the value of connecting the formulation of a neighbourhood plan with the emergence of a relevant local plan, allowing for more meaningful local influence on strategic policymaking.With first-hand insights on neighbourhood planning, this book offers a novel contribution to the fields of planning, urban studies, and urban geography.

This first book-length exploration of geographical engagement with puppets examines constructions of puppets in contemporary popular British culture and considers the various ways in which puppets and humans (not just puppeteers) are unified in diverse cultural media.Organised around themes of metaphorical, performative and transformational puppets, the work draws out how puppets are used in diverse cultural media (fiction, music, television, film and theatre), how they are constructed through those uses, and to what effect. Both puppets as generalised forms (bodily, relational or ideational) and specific puppet characters (Mr Punch, Pinocchio) are explored. Building upon existing associations between puppets and the grotesque, the volume extends understandings of the puppet by elaborating borderscaping strategies through which puppets are constructed and an alternative perspective on the uncanniness of puppets. Geographically, it unearths distinct puppet spatialities, identifies the socially critical potential of puppets, rescales geo/bio-politics at the interpersonal level, and highlights the potential of puppets within posthuman debates about the status of the human.This work will be of interest to anyone fascinated by puppets, as well as those in fields such as geography, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and those interested in the grotesque, posthumanism and/or non-representational scholarship.

This first book-length exploration of geographical engagement with puppets examines constructions of puppets in contemporary popular British culture and considers the various ways in which puppets and humans (not just puppeteers) are unified in diverse cultural media.Organised around themes of metaphorical, performative and transformational puppets, the work draws out how puppets are used in diverse cultural media (fiction, music, television, film and theatre), how they are constructed through those uses, and to what effect. Both puppets as generalised forms (bodily, relational or ideational) and specific puppet characters (Mr Punch, Pinocchio) are explored. Building upon existing associations between puppets and the grotesque, the volume extends understandings of the puppet by elaborating borderscaping strategies through which puppets are constructed and an alternative perspective on the uncanniness of puppets. Geographically, it unearths distinct puppet spatialities, identifies the socially critical potential of puppets, rescales geo/bio-politics at the interpersonal level, and highlights the potential of puppets within posthuman debates about the status of the human.This work will be of interest to anyone fascinated by puppets, as well as those in fields such as geography, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and those interested in the grotesque, posthumanism and/or non-representational scholarship.

Designed to promote the use of visual pedagogical techniques within academic skills tuition, including through the provision of visual feedback on student written work, this book provides advice and resources for all educators seeking to make fuller use of visual methods within their teaching practice.This key title explores methods to provide visual feedback on written work enabling students to engage differently with their own scholarly outputs and derive greater meaning from conventional verbal feedback. It also encourages student use of visualisation techniques to support their autonomy in assessing their own work and advancing their own academic development. Grounded in key scholarship, it presents a matrix of contextual, structural and processual considerations to help adopt visual approaches and provides sample teaching materials and a range of examples as inspiration.Ideal reading for all those teaching in higher education looking to improve inclusivity by promoting visual pedagogies and feedback processes, this title aims to bolster academic skills tuition for all students. It’s designed to broaden the repertoire of teaching methods available and to cater more effectively for historically and currently marginalised students, by utilising methods that are better suited to their thinking styles.

Designed to promote the use of visual pedagogical techniques within academic skills tuition, including through the provision of visual feedback on student written work, this book provides advice and resources for all educators seeking to make fuller use of visual methods within their teaching practice.This key title explores methods to provide visual feedback on written work enabling students to engage differently with their own scholarly outputs and derive greater meaning from conventional verbal feedback. It also encourages student use of visualisation techniques to support their autonomy in assessing their own work and advancing their own academic development. Grounded in key scholarship, it presents a matrix of contextual, structural and processual considerations to help adopt visual approaches and provides sample teaching materials and a range of examples as inspiration.Ideal reading for all those teaching in higher education looking to improve inclusivity by promoting visual pedagogies and feedback processes, this title aims to bolster academic skills tuition for all students. It’s designed to broaden the repertoire of teaching methods available and to cater more effectively for historically and currently marginalised students, by utilising methods that are better suited to their thinking styles.

This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography’s resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience.