The Routledge Handbook of Plaemaking
The first to explore the field of placemaking in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the placemaking sector.
I edited the Handbook, convening a cohort of world-leading placemaking experts to co-curate its seven sections, and programmed a year-long series of online and face-to-face events with co-editors and contributors to discuss its themes and topics.
Section 1: History and Theory of Placemaking,
Section editor: Jason Schupbach
Jason is Dean of the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University and a nationally recognized expert in the role that arts and design play in improving communities. He was the federal liaison to the design community in his role as Director of Design and Creative Placemaking Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Section 2: Practices of Placemaking
Section editor: Tom Borrup
Tom is an international consultant and author of The Power of Culture in City Planning and The Creative Community Builders’ Handbook. He is Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies for the University of Minnesota’s Master of Professional Studies in Arts and Cultural Leadership.
Section 3: Problematizing Placemaking
Section editor: Louise Platt
Louise is a senior lecturer in Festival and Events at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests predominantly lie in the role of festivity in places. She is on the executive committee of the Leisure Studies Association and the editorial board of Leisure Studies journal.
Section 4: Art, Artists and Placemaking
Section editor: myself
Section 5: Placemaking, Environment and Sustaining Ecologies
Section editor: Anita McKeown
Anita is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, scholar, and educator with research interests in Sustainable Creative Placemaking and Open Source Culture and Technology. She is the Co-Director of SMARTlab Skelligs, research lab in South Kerry and SMARTlab's NAISC Skellig Kerry Diaspora Network Fellow.
Section 6: Placemaking, Urban Design and Planning
Section editor: Kylie Legge
Kylie is the CEO and founder of place data analytics company Place Score and placemaking consultancy Place Partners. Kylie is a passionate advocate for human-centred design in cities and is the author of Doing it Differently and Future City Solutions.
Section 7: Researching and Evaluating Placemaking
Section editor: Maria Rosario Jackson
Maria is Chair, National Endowment for the Arts, with a long career in strategic planning, research and evaluation with philanthropy, government and non-profit organizations.