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Placemaking: People, Properties, Planning, delivers a cross-disciplinary critique of “placemaking”, an approach to the design and creation of new urban places, and the reshaping of old ones, that has become so pervasive that it forms the ‘strapline’ for the UK’s Royal Town Planning Institute. Developing principally from planning and urban design, placemaking has swiftly become a new orthodoxy, a dominant paradigm. It seems to be all-encompassing, particularly at a time when towns and cities face new and large-scale challenges relating to climate change, sustainability, population movement and intensive capital regeneration.
Higgins and Larkham alongside an expert team of contributors examine the experiences of placemaking, the underlying principles and motivations of placemaking, the importance of context, the quality of the places produced, and the experiences of those living and working in them.
Placemaking: People, Properties, Planning contains a series of short, sharp chapters exploring a broad range of placemaking concepts and experiences. It is designed to be critical, but easily comprehensible to both university-level students in built environment academic disciplines and to practitioners in related professions.
A great book that any city planner, any real estate professional, any student in the built environment should get inspiration from. Plenty of insights on a wide range of topics carefully edited, from real estate markets to sustainability.
Peter J Larkham is Professor of Planning at Birmingham City University.
David Higgins was Professor of Real Estate at Birmingham City University, and he is now a real estate consultant, has founded Higgins Research, and is a visiting academic at several universities.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Peter J Larkham and David Higgins
Chapter 2. The Reality: The Legal Framework and Placemaking; Amanda Mundell and Hazel Nash
Chapter 3. Placemaking: Creating Value with Smart Spaces; David Higgins, Peter Wood, and Chris Berry
Chapter 4. Placemaking, Nature and the Promise of Digital Transformation; Mike Grace
Chapter 5. The City as a System of Places: Smart Placemaking for Future Living; Vahid Javidroozi
Chapter 6. Placemaking and Sustainability: Moving from Rhetoric to Transformative Sustainability Policies, Mindsets and Actions; Claudia E Carter
Chapter 7. Placemaking, Conservation and Heritage; Peter J Larkham, Emma Love, and Miguel Hincapié Triviño
Chapter 8. Handmade Spaces: Creative Placemaking in a Local Neighbourhood; Silvia Gullino and Heidi Seetzen
Chapter 9. The Political Dimension of Making a Place: Framing the Right to the City in Placemaking; Débora Picorelli Zukeran, Claudia E Carter, and Miguel Hincapié Triviño
Chapter 10. Placemaking on a Wider Scale: Seeing the Bigger Picture; Kathryn Moore, Alex Albans, and Peter J Larkham
Chapter 11. Conclusion: The Future of Placemaking; Peter J Larkham and David Higgins