ABSTRACT
The era of knowledge-based urban development has led to an unprecedented increase in mobility of people and the subsequent growth in new typologies of agglomerated enclaves of knowledge such as innovation districts. Within this context, a new role has been assigned to contemporary public spaces to attract and retain the mobile knowledge workforce by creating a sense of place. This chapter investigates place making in the globalised knowledge economy, which develops a sense of permanence spatio-temporally to knowledge workers displaying a set of characteristics and simultaneously is process-dependent getting developed by the internal and external flows and contributing substantially to the development of the broader context it stands in relation with. The chapter reviews the literature and highlights observations from Kelvin Grove Urban Village, located in Australia's new world city Brisbane, to understand the application of urban design as a vehicle to create and sustain place making in innovation districts. This research seeks to analyse the modified permeable typology of public spaces that makes innovation districts more viable and adaptive as per the changing needs of the contemporary globalised knowledge society.
