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Creative Placemaking : Research, Theory and Practice, Hardback Book

Creative Placemaking : Research, Theory and Practice Hardback

Edited by Cara (University of Brighton, UK) Courage, Anita McKeown

Part of the Routledge Studies in Human Geography series

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This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development.

The book brings together a range of scholars to critique and deconstruct the notion of creative placemaking, presenting diverse case studies from researcher, practitioner, funder and policymaker perspectives from across the globe.

It opens with the creators of the 2010 White Paper that named and defined creative placemaking, Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, who offer a cortically reflexive narrative on the founding of the sector and its development.

This book looks at vernacular creativity in place, a topic continued through the book with its focus on the practitioner and community-placed projects.

It closes with a consideration of aesthetics, metrics and, from the editors, a consideration of the next ten years for the sector. If creative placemaking is to contribute to places-in-the-making and encourage citizenled agency, new conceptual frameworks and practical methodologies are required.

This book joins theorists and practitioners in dialogue, advocating for transdisciplinary, resilient processes.

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