ABSTRACT
This conclusion chapter presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceeding chapter of this book. The aim of this book was to present some ideas that spanned urban design and planning and also tapped into other disciplines ideas that offered some intriguing connections and ways of seeing through the dilemma of planning large scale urban redevelopments. It discussed the place phenomenon from the perspective of this urban context because these sites are usually high profile and intense in their impact on cities at many levels from abstract to concrete. Places were described in as the undifferentiated entanglement of diverse factors and presented an alternative perspective to understanding urbanity. The perception of place described through the adaptive perceptual cycle as between, ness of our schemata and real world experiences. Small world network theory was introduced as a way of understanding how places grow and change. Placemaking approaches, particularly by those influenced by Christopher Alexander's new theory of urban design has described.
