ABSTRACT
This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of ‘placemaking’ in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the placemaking sector.
Placemaking has seen a paradigmatic shift in urban design, planning, and policy to engage the community voice. This Handbook examines the development of placemaking, its emerging theories, and its future directions. The book is structured in seven distinct sections curated by experts in the areas concerned. Section One provides a glimpse at the history and key theories of placemaking and its interpretations by different community sectors. Section Two studies the transformative potential of placemaking practice through case studies on different places, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks. It also reveals placemaking’s potential to nurture a holistic community engagement, social justice, and human-centric urban environments. Section Three looks at the politics of placemaking to consider who is included and who is excluded from its practice and if the concept of placemaking needs to be reconstructed. Section Four deals with the scales and scopes of art-based placemaking, moving from the city to the neighborhood and further to the individual practice. It juxtaposes the voice of the practitioner and professional alongside that of the researcher and academic. Section Five tackles the socio-economic and environmental placemaking issues deemed pertinent to emerge more sustainable placemaking practices. Section Six emphasizes placemaking’s intersection with urban design and planning sectors and incudes case studies of generative planning practice. The final seventh section draws on the expertise of placemakers, researchers, and evaluators to present the key questions today, new methods and approaches to evaluation of placemaking in related fields, and notions for the future of evaluation practices. Each section opens with an introduction to help the reader navigate the text. This organization of the book considers the sectors that operate alongside the core placemaking practice.
This seminal Handbook offers a timely contribution and international perspectives for the growing field of placemaking. It will be of interest to academics and students of placemaking, urban design, urban planning and policy, architecture, geography, cultural studies, and the arts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section 1|56 pages
History and theory of placemaking
chapter 5|11 pages
Making places for survival
section Section 2|76 pages
Practices of placemaking
section |5 pages
Preface
chapter 10|8 pages
From moon village to mural village
section Section 3|76 pages
Problematizing placemaking
section |5 pages
Preface
chapter 15|11 pages
Un/safety as placemaking
chapter 17|12 pages
‘I am not a satnav’
chapter 18|11 pages
‘Homomonument sounds like a poem’
section Section 4|86 pages
Art, artists, and placemaking
chapter 25|11 pages
‘If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere…’
section Section 5|86 pages
Placemaking, environment, and sustaining ecologies
section |7 pages
Towards developing equitable economies; the concept of Oikos in placemaking
chapter 27|10 pages
Is ‘tactical urbanism’ an alternative to neoliberal urbanism?
chapter 29|13 pages
The solution is in the problem
section Section 6|60 pages
Placemaking, urban design, and planning
section |3 pages
Preface
chapter 37|11 pages
The Neighbourhood Project
section Section 7|64 pages
Researching and evaluating placemaking
section |3 pages
Preface
chapter 39|10 pages
Translating Outcomes
chapter 40|11 pages
Transforming community development through arts and culture
chapter 42|11 pages
Creative placemaking and placekeeping evaluation challenges from the practitioner perspective
chapter 43|7 pages
A theory of change for creative placemaking
chapter 44|10 pages
Creative Placemaking and comprehensive community development
section |18 pages
Conclusion
section |2 pages
Preface