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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

\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

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

New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different attempts for ordering cities ...
Remesar, Antoni
core   +1 more source

Sustainable Placemaking and Thermal Comfort Conditions in Urban Spaces: The Case Study of Avenida dos Aliados and Praça da Liberdade (Porto, Portugal)

open access: yesUrban Science
The urban microclimate of Avenida dos Aliados and Praça da Liberdade was subjected to comprehensive examination through twelve measurement campaigns at six strategic observation points over the course of two seasons, namely summer and winter, between ...
H. Lopes   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

#Dubailiving and Digital Placemaking on TikTok: Migrant, Domestic, and Service Workers’ Affective Social Mediascapes

open access: yesSocial Media + Society, 2023
While Dubai, the small emirate in the United Arab Emirates, tends to be associated with luxurious social media images of elite social actors, startling architecture, and consumer status symbols, this study addresses migrant, domestic, and service workers’
Zoe Hurley
doaj   +1 more source

The case for inclusive area profiling applied in geographic information systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper introduces the history and role of consultation processes of contemporary planning and, after presenting the popularity and criticisms of different practices including communities in urban decision making, it explores how rational planning ...
Al-Kodmany K   +38 more
core   +2 more sources

Sacred or sacrificed placemaking: a contested fan pilgrimage site for rural tourism development

open access: yesTourism Geographies
The concept of placemaking describes the transformation and development of a site directed by the local authorities. This longitudinal study examines the emergence of a fan pilgrimage site in rural Japan and the subsequent placemaking process to ...
Timo Thelen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Planning from Failure: Transforming a Waterfront through Experimentation in a Placemaking Living Lab

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2021
This article assesses on what happens when planning by experiment becomes imperative for strategic city sites such as waterfronts due to the failure of other forms of centralised, top-down, or market-led planning.
Ramon Marrades   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emotional Capital and Other Ontologies of the Architect

open access: yesArchitectural Histories, 2020
This article presents a narrative of placemaking and architecture that posits the emotional as a foundational framework for spatial production. Written from within an African episteme, it tells the story of Nubian displacement villages in Egypt and their
Menna Agha
doaj   +1 more source

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