Dynamics of Placemaking Volume 1. Placemaking in Practice – Experiences and Approaches from a Pan-European Perspective

Placemaking in Practice – Experiences and Approaches from a Pan-European Perspective is a collective effort from multiple scholars in different contexts to bring Freeman’s message into practice. It is the result of a COST Action, an interdisciplinary research network of researchers and innovators who spend several years investigating a topic together. The main aim of this COST Action was to analyse “how placemaking activities re-imagine and reinvent public space and improve citizens’ involvement in urban planning” and to understand the role of “digital tools to record, transform, produce and disseminate a citizens’ knowledge about the urban spaces throughout Europe’s cities”. This volume addressing the above objective, uses case studies that were conducted in the European context to explore placemaking as a process, as a tool, as a methodology and as an innovative way to think about the past, present and future of cities. In this process, the contributors to this book have focused on different aspects of placemaking in relation to digitization of space, time and practices in cities that have contributed to different understandings of how space and place are experienced.