Are We Doing This Right? – Placemaking Edition (Part 2)
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This is Part 2 of our 'Are We Doing This Right?' discussion on placemaking! This time, we delve deeper into some criticisms of placemaking as it is commonly applied. Missed Part 1? Follow this-here link. (And consider subscribing anywhere you find podcasts, so you don’t miss any more episodes!)
Your hosts for this episode: Jordan Clark & AJ Fawver.
Want to read more? Here is just a sampling of what’s out there and what we found useful:
Paper: Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking
What is Placemaking and Identity?
NEA White Paper: Creative Placemaking
Places in the Making: How placemaking builds places and communities
Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem
Paper: Place Guarding: Activist and Social Practice Art -Direct Action Against Gentrification
Place Guarding: An End to the Slow Violence of Creative Placemaking and Gentrification?
The Complicated Business of Placemaking in a Place That Already Exists
Eleven Principles for Creating Great Community Places
What are the Real-World Impacts of Creative Placemaking?
Placemaking as an Economic Development Tool
Best Practices for Creative Placemaking
Places that Pay: Benefits of placemaking
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