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Understanding placemaking in spatial planning using a text analysis tool

open access: yesDiscover Cities
Placemaking is a widely used concept studied and practised worldwide across a spectrum of sciences and professions. Despite its popularity, there is still a lack of consistent definition and understanding of the term’s meaning, context, and processes ...
Theodora Istoriou, Georgia Pozoukidou
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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
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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
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Creative Placemaking: Building Partnerships to Create Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Arts, artists, and creative strategies can be critical vehicles for planning to achieve social, economic, and community goals. Creative placemaking is one type of arts-led planning that incorporates both stakeholder participation and community goals. Yet,
Kim, Mirae, Levine Daniel, Jamie
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Placemaking and visitors’ reviews of the Golden Mile of Durban

open access: yesActa Commercii, 2021
Orientation: Placemaking is a proclivity of cities to change space into place through zoning, naming and development into attractive, people-friendly landscapes where diverse, harmonious and sometimes contradicting amenities are coalesced to attract ...
Dumsile C. Hlengwa
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Setting the Stage for Community Change: Reflecting on Creative Placemaking Outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
As interest in measuring and understanding the impact of arts investments in community development continues to grow, this new study, Setting the Stage for Community Change: Reflecting on Creative Placemaking Outcomes, commissioned by the Levitt ...
Joanna Woronkowicz   +3 more
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VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On placemaking and wellbeing: Practitioner perspectives on third sector support for refugees and asylum seekers

open access: yesWellbeing, Space and Society
Migration studies foreground ‘placemaking’ as key to the wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers. In the absence of state support, third sector organisations play a significant role in supporting refugee placemaking and wellbeing.
Emma Soye, Charles Watters
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Creative Placemaking Case Study: North Collinwood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This case study on the North Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, illustrates how Creative Placemaking, the deliberate integration of arts and culture into comprehensive community development, can serve as a critical catalyst in forming equitable ...

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