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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

open access: yesJournal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
wiley   +1 more source

On-Premise Signage and Placemaking: Aiding Lively Streetscapes to Maintain Signage Visibility

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding, 2023
Placemaking is an initiative with roots in the 1960s and 70s to enhance public life in the urban setting. This complex notion requires multiple disciplines, flexibility, and a human-centric approach toward development.
Robert Dalton, Sahand Abbasi, Seojoo Han
doaj   +1 more source

Tourism and the city: towards new models?

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2016
Globalisation and new information technology are bringing significant changes to tourism. Tourism experiences are now increasingly being co-produced by tourism companies, tourists and local residents.
Greg Richards
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting the “Model of Place”: A Comparative Study of Placemaking and Sustainability

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2019
The literature on sustainability policies and placemaking strategies reveals the inadequacy of both concepts to address current urban issues suggesting the need for new approaches.
Ensiyeh Ghavampour, Brenda Vale
doaj   +1 more source

Riverside Placemaking outside Big Cities—The Case Study of Three Polish Rivers

open access: yesLand, 2023
Most placemaking activities have both tangible and intangible aspects. However, the most significant division line comes from the driving force behind the process, which can be either top-down formal actions or bottom-up informal ones.
Dawid Soszyński   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Placemaking for Urban Regeneration: Identification of Historic Heritage Values in Taiwan and the Baltic States

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2021
The active use of modern technology has affected the relationship between people and place. The “digital environment” and the “digital community” are becoming an increasingly important factor in people’s daily life, leading to a loss of belonging to a ...
Chih-ming Shih   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

\u3ci\u3eThe Center of the World\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A body of water is often seen as a serene place of relaxation, but just under the surface, aquatic life bustle around. This creative narrative will spark your imagination into having you believe that you are placed in the shoes of a wandering student as ...
Fryer, Chris
core   +1 more source

When in Doubt, Go to the Library? Libraries & Rural Creative Placemaking

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2020
As rural communities confront increasing challenges and escalating social problems, a variety of interventions have been proposed, including creative placemaking. Creative placemaking is a bottom-up approach to cultural policy development (Redaelli, 2018
B. Kathleen Gallagher
doaj  

Spaces of Culture, Places of Belonging—An Analytical Perspective on Participatory Governance and Placemaking in European Capitals of Culture

open access: yesUrban Science
This article explores the extent of ECoCs (European Capitals of Culture) as placemaking laboratories. Methodologically, this study employed a mixed-methods approach.
Mădălina Glonți, Nicolae Popa
doaj   +1 more source

Making space for proactive adaptation of rapidly changing coasts: a windows of opportunity approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Coastlines are very often places where the impacts of global change are felt most keenly, and they are also often sites of high values and intense use for industry, human habitation, nature conservation and recreation. In many countries, coastlines are
Brown, Katrina   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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