Placemaking
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Placemaking is a term that began to be used beginning in the 1970s by architects and planners to describe the process of creating squares, plazas, parks, streets, and waterfronts that will attract people because they are pleasurable or interesting. Placemaking is often characterized by a focus on human activities and community involvement.[citation needed] Landscape often plays an important in the design process.
According to Bernard Hunt, an architect practicing in London:
We have theories, specialisms, regulations, exhortations, demonstration projects. We have planners. We have highway engineers. We have mixed use, mixed tenure, architecture, community architecture, urban design, neighbourhood strategy. But what seems to have happened is that we have simply lost the art of placemaking; or, put another way, we have lost the simple art of placemaking. We are good at putting up buildings but we are bad at making places.[1]
[edit] See also
- William H. Whyte
- Jane Jacobs
- Fred Kent
- Jan Gehl
- Christopher Alexander
- Donald Appleyard
- James Howard Kunstler
- Allan Jacobs
- Enrique Penalosa
- Community of place
[edit] References
- ^ "sustainable placemaking" - Keynote speech by Bernard Hunt of HTA Architects, 22 February 2001
[edit] Books
- Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities, by Lynda H. Schneekloth & Robert G. Shibley (1995)
- How to Turn a Place Around, by Project for Public Spaces (2000)
