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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

15. Placemaking

Author : Jason Beske

Published in: Suburban Remix

Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

We end this book with a chapter on placemaking—giving shape and character to the places we create. Long confined to planning and design jargon, “placemaking” and the ideas behind it began seeping into the mainstream in the early 2000s. Today mayors, developers, and neighborhood leaders talk as easily about placemaking as do urban designers. The mainstreaming of placemaking took place at the same time as a shift in demographics, the rise of a knowledge economy, and a longing for more social interaction. These forces have come together to make the shape and character of communities matter more than at any time since World War II.

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Footnotes
1
“Placemaking,” accessed April 2017, https://​en.​wiktionary.​org/​wiki/​placemaking.
 
2
Project for Public Spaces blog, “Reimagining Our Streets as Places: From Transit Routes to Community Roots,” accessed April 2, 2017, https://​www.​pps.​org/​reference/​reimagining-our-streets-as-places-from-transit-routes-to-community-roots/​.
 
3
Smart Growth Network, International City/County Management Association, and Environmental Protection Agency, Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation (Smart Growth Network, 2002).
 
4
Ibid.
 
5
“Reston Master Plan,” 1962, Reston Museum, accessed April 2017, https://​www.​restonmuseum.​org/​reston-history.
 
6
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York: North Point Press, 2000).
 
7
Interview with Robert Goudie, CEO Reston Town Center Association, March 13, 2017.
 
8
Lee Sobel, “Six Reasons for the Resurgence of Car-Free Shopping Streets,” 2017, accessed June 6, 2017, www.​buildabetterburb​.​org.
 
9
William H. Whyte, City: Rediscovering the Center (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988).
 
10
ARUP, Cities Alive: Towards a Walking World (London: ARUP, 2016).
 
11
Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Newark, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011).
 
12
Alan Ward, Reston Town Center: A Downtown for the 21st Century (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006).
 
Metadata
Title
Placemaking
Author
Jason Beske
Copyright Year
2018
Publisher
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Book
Suburban Remix

Print ISBN: 978-1-61091-927-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-864-0

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-864-0_16