Contents:
Introduction
What really matters: moving placemaking into a new epoch ByCara Courage
section Section 1
History and theory of placemaking
Preface
Placemaking in the age of COVID-19 and protest By Jason Schupbach
Placemaking as an economic engine for all By James F. Lima, Andrew J. Jones
An annotated history of creative placemaking at the federal level By Jen Hughes
A future of creative placemaking By Sarah Calderon, Erik Takeshita
Making places for survival Looking to a creative placemaking past for a guide to the future By Jeremy Liu
Listen, connect, act By Kim Cook
Section Section 2
Practices of placemaking
Preface
Conflict and memory
Human rights and placemaking in the city of Gwangju By Shin Gyonggu
Queer placemaking, settler colonial time, and the desert imaginary in Palm Springs By Xander Lenc
From the dust of bad stars
Disaster, resilience, and placemaking in Little Tokyo By Jonathan Jae-an Crisman
From moon village to mural village
The consequences of creative placemaking in Ihwa-dong, Seoul By Jason F. Kovacs, Hayun Park
Free State Boulevard and the story of the East 9th Street Placekeepers By Dave Loewenstein
Public transformation
Affect and mobility in Rural America By Lyndsey Ogle
Sensing our streets
Involving children in making people-centred smart cities By Sean Peacock, Aare Puussaar, Clara Crivellaro
section Section 3
Problematizing placemaking
Preface
Experts in their own tomorrows Placemaking for participatory climate futures By Paul Graham Raven
Un/safety as placemaking
Disabled people’s socio-spatial negotiation of fear of violent crime By Claire Edwards
More than a mural
Participatory placemaking on Gija Country By Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek
‘I am not a satnav’ Affective placemaking and conflict in ‘the ginnel that roared’ By Morag Rose
‘Homomonument sounds like a poem’
Queer placemaking 30 years on: a conversational dialogue with Thijs Bartels, author of Dancing on the Homomonument (2003)
By Martin Zebracki
Placemaking in the ecology of the human habitat By Graham Marshall
section Section 4
Art, artists, and placemaking
Preface
The radical potential of placemaking By Cara Courage
Displacemaking 2015 and 2020 By Catherine Fennell, Daniel Tucker
Placemaking through Parkour and Art du Déplacement (ADD) as a Singaporean Applied Performance Practitioner in London
By Adelina Ong
Embedded Artist Project
Epistemic Disobedience + Place By Frances Whitehead
Routing out place identity through the vernacular production practices of a community light festival By Gail Skelly, Tim Edensor
Artists, creativity, and the heart of city planning ByTom Borrup
‘If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere…’ Cultural placemaking at the heart of cities By Sherry Dobbin
Sculpturing sound in space
On The Circle and the Square (2016) by Suzanne Lacy By Trude Schjelderup Iversen
section Section 5
Placemaking, environment, and sustaining ecologies
Towards developing equitable economies; the concept of Oikos in placemaking
Is ‘tactical urbanism’ an alternative to neoliberal urbanism?
Reflections on an exhibition at the MoMA By Neil Brenner
Integral placemaking
A poiesis of sophrosynes? By Ian Wight
The solution is in the problem
The art of turning a threat into an opportunity by developing resilience using a Creative Placemaking critical praxis By Anita McKeown
Ethical placemaking for ecological subjects By Lisa Eckenwiler
Seven generations
A role for artists in Zuni PlaceKnowing By Theodore S. Jojola, Michaela P. Shirley
The Hollywood Forest Story
Placemaking for the Symbiocene By Cathy Fitzgerald
Conceptualizing and recognizing placemaking by non-human beings and lessons we might learn from Marx While Walking with Beaver By Jeff Baldwin