Deconstructing Placemaking

<p>A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards zoning codes and restrictive covenants. Place matters has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture urban planning and urban design geography and sociology to name a few. While conceptualized narrowly by individual disciplines a holistic framework of placemaking is sorely missing. Mahyar Arefi seeks to fill this gap by exploring these questions: how are places physically created socially mobilized and politically contested? </p><p>This book explores three competing approaches to placemaking: need-based opportunity-based and asset-based. Using a case study approach the book delves into each paradigm and its stages of physical formation social mobilization and political contestation.</p>