ABSTRACT
This chapter considers place-making in the context of the specific interests to which the practice is enlisted. Place-making can be a formal practice, initiated and led by community groups, non- government organizations, and governments; or informal, the result of people and institutions organizing space in whatever ways that work for them, in response to the political and spatial context. Illegal and oppressive place-making practices might involve the forced removal of people for the purposes of illegal logging or resource extraction, or razing squatted homes to create new uses for the site. The formal, state-sanctioned place-making practice will reduce the number of drug and alcohol treatment programs and support services for low-income people in that area, and relocate these services to elsewhere in the area’s western region. Place-making practices with an eye to social inclusion, equity, and diversity require multiple approaches and responses.
