ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on four broad sets of factors such as epistemologies, outcomes, relationships, and processes, which influence placemaking. Three different types of knowledge influence placemaking: expert knowledge, local knowledge, and situated knowledge. These knowledge types inform the intentions, goals, and aspirations of the stakeholders involved in and the stages observed throughout the placemaking process. The expert knowledge reflects the preponderance of rational and analytic thinking in the decision-making compared to the idiosyncratic practices of common sense. In the absence of expert knowledge, local knowledge takes over. The expected outcomes of need-, opportunity-, and asset-based approaches mark the one of the types of overarching patterns of influences in placemaking. Relationships provide conduits for change and connect the needy communities not only to the socio-economic and political mainstreams, but also to other types of resources, including technical assistance and management.
