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part, PART I Mooring Authenticity / Laura Tate -- chapter Introduction: Planning for AuthentiCITIES / Laura Tate Brettany Shannon -- chapter 1 Chinatown, not Coffeetown: Authenticity and Placemaking in Vancouver’s Chinatown / Leslie Shieh Jessica Chen -- chapter 2 Neighbourhood Authenticity and Sense of Place / Vikas Mehta -- chapter 3 Urban Authenticity as a Panacea for Urban Disorder? Business Improvement Areas, Cultural Power, and the Worlds of Justification / Daniel Kudla -- chapter 4 A Framework of Neighbourhood Authenticity for Urban Planning: Three Aspects and Three Types of Change / Justin R. Meyer -- chapter 5 Negotiating Diversity: The Transitioning Greektown of Baltimore City, Maryland / Baltimore City Maryland Naka Matsumoto -- chapter 6 Planning and Authenticity: A Materialist and Phronetic Perspective / Laura Lieto -- part, PART II Performing Authenticity / Laura Tate -- chapter 7 Authenticity Makes the City: How “the Authentic” Affects the Production of Space / Maria Francesca Piazzoni -- chapter 8 Authenticity’s Many Performances in the Urban Studies Literature / Brettany Shannon -- chapter 9 Tactical Urbanism as the Staging of Social Authenticity / David Franco -- chapter 10 Sincerity, Performative Authenticity, and Tourism in New Orleans / New Orleans Lauren Lastrapes -- chapter 11 Gardening in America / Angela Babb Adrianne Bryant Daniel C. Knudsen -- chapter 12 Utilizing Comical Mascots (Yuru- kyara) to Create City Authenticity? / Keiro Hattori -- chapter 13 Authentic Downtown Project: Intentional Community Making in the Digital Age / Brettany Shannon -- part, PART III Healing Authenticity / Laura Tate -- chapter 14 Relocated Authenticity: Placemaking in Displacement in Southern Taiwan / Shu- Mei Huang and Jeffrey Hou -- chapter 15 Coding the “Authenti- City”: North Harbour and the Århusgade Quarter, Copenhagen / Mike S. Harris -- chapter 16 Diálogos for Latino Communities / Cecilia Giusti Edna Ledesma -- chapter 17 Planning for Reconciliation: Indigenous Authenticity in Community Engagement and Urban Planning in Canadian Cities / Jeffrey Schiffer -- chapter 18 Urban–Social Imaginaries of Authenticity: And the John Lennon Wall / John Lennon Wall Laura Tate.

Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities’ commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the same, and gentrification displaces many original neighborhood residents, we are left with a sense that our cities are becoming "hollowed out," bereft of the multi-faceted connections that once rooted us to our communities. And yet, in a world where change is unrelenting, people long for authentic places. This book examines the reasons for and responses to this longing, considering the role of community development in addressing community and neighbourhood authenticity.A key concept underscoring planning’s inherent challenges is the notion of authentic community, ranging from more holistic, and yet highly market-sensitive conceptions of authentic community to appreciating how authenticity helps form and reinforce individual identity. Typically, developers emphasize spaces’ monetary exchange value, while residents emphasize neighbourhoods’ use value—including how those spaces enrich local community tradition and life. Where exchange value predominates, authenticity is increasingly implicated in gentrification, taking us further from what initially made communities authentic. The hunger for authenticity grows, in spite and because of its ambiguities. This edited collection seeks to explore such dynamics, asking alternately, "How does the definition of ‘authenticity’ shift in different social, political, and economic contexts?" And, "Can planning promote authenticity? If so, how and under what conditions?" It includes healthy scepticism regarding the concept, along with proposals for promoting its democratic, inclusive expression in neighbourhoods and communities.