Five introductory reflections on placemaking
Over the past few months we've been talking to our partners and students on the TAP project about what placemaking is. It can be a slippery term, so we're setting out some of the ideas we've been discussing below. For anyone unsure about what placemaking means, this might be a good place to start. This isn't a final definition - like placemaking itself it's a work-in-progress. Placemaking is about connections between people and place Placemaking is a shorthand term that describes how places are made through our interactions with them. It’s about how “place” always means more than a set of geographical coordinates. It’s about feelings and attitudes and the stories we tell ourselves and each other about place. Placemaking is as much about human beings as it is the built environment, nature and infrastructure. As people and communities interact with the physical environments in which they live, work and play, a particular ‘sense of place’ comes about. It’s what gives