ABSTRACT
To make cities more resilient and to future-proof neighbourhoods, new ways are needed for city dwellers and professionals alike to become more engaged in the challenges, tasks and responsibilities of placemaking. Placemaking management roles have traditionally been exercised by local authorities and other administrative agencies and their contracted architects and urbanists. Today the urban population accounts for 54" of the total global population. The wiki culture at the heart of good placemaking, with its ethos of shared responsibility and collective envisioning and implementation, does not mean that quality management is no longer necessary or can be taken for granted. Some agencies are working along the right lines in evolving localised, neighbourhood planning tools for capacity building, favouring open-sourcing, peer-to-peer, DIY, transparency and ease of relational modelling. Sustasis hosts the American chapter of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU), UK charity dedicated to the study, protection and regeneration of resilient local neighbourhoods and buildings around the world.
