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Placemaking is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. Placemaking capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration, and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that improve urban vitality and promote people's health, happiness, and well-being.
The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design. London: Merrell, 2007. ISBN 9781858943718; Fleming, Ronald Lee, Rachel Goldsmith, and J. A. Chewning. Saving Face: How Corporate Franchise Design Can Respect Community Identity. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service, 1994. OCLC ...
Place identity has become a significant issue in the last 25 years in urban planning and design. Place identity concerns the meaning and significance of places for their inhabitants and users, and how these meanings contribute to individuals' conceptualizations of self.
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization based in New York dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities, in an effort often termed placemaking. [1] Planning and design rooted in the community form the cornerstone of PPS's work.
View of Kakaʻako from the Kakaʻako Waterfront Park. Kakaʻako is a commercial and retail district of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi between Ala Moana near Waikīkī to the east and downtown Honolulu and Honolulu Harbor to the west.
David Seamon (born 14 April 1948) [1] is an American geographer, phenomenologist, author and academic. Seamon in known for his work on the theory of architectural phenomenology, [2] environmental phenomenology, and environmental design as placemaking.
William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte Jr. (July 11, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American urbanist, sociologist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher. He identified the elements that create vibrant public spaces within the city and filmed a variety of urban plazas in New York City in the 1970s. [1]
This barber shop in Brazil is an example of a third place. In many societies, barber shops and beauty salons are traditional areas to congregate separate from work or home. ...