Creative placemaking is an increasingly prevalent form of planning practice that invokes arts
and culture as tools for revitalization. Planners, policymakers, funders, and practitioners are …

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking'in terms of the recent
research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering …

This book has arisen from a transatlantic conversation between eponymous creative
placemaking conference sessions at the Royal Geographical Society, Exeter, 2015, and the …

Cities have always been hubs for celebration and festivity, bringing people together to
escape temporarily from the mundane nature of everyday routines. Festivals have often …

What was participatory culture's role in advancing critical PR ideals through community
placemaking for UK City of Culture 2021 (UKCoC) bids? To answer this question, 20 semi …

The introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking considers the future of
placemaking, as a practice and as a sector, with reflections on climate emergency, COVID …

The US policy platform of creative placemaking (Gadwa Nicodemus, 2013, p. 214) is
becoming a dominant global vehicle for the implementation of neoliberal ideologies (Wilbur …

Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs,
advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and …

Purpose Festivals are often explicitly connected to the destinations in which they take place,
explored here as contributing to broader processes of place-making and engagement with …

This paper offers a critical analysis of how urban placemaking as a top-down or bottom-up
action, involving organizational intervention or facilitation, is typified by problematic angles …