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placemaking

placemaking noun: the planning, design and management of public spaces with regard to the communities that will inhabit them.

Noun

placemaking (uncountable)

  1. The planning, design and management of public spaces with regard to the communities that will inhabit them.
    • The positive rhetoric and branding of placemaking is that it transforms run-down areas into vibrant and economically successful parts of the city. The reality is that it creates sterile places, emptied of so many of the essential aspects of urban life, except the expensive activities.2025 May 26, Anna Minton, “A new kind of gentrification is spreading through London – and emptying out schools”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin of placemaking

From place + making.

Questions about placemaking

What does placemaking mean?
Placemaking means the planning, design and management of public spaces with regard to the communities that will inhabit them.
What part of speech is placemaking?
Placemaking is a noun.

Words near placemaking in the dictionary

  1. placeless
  2. placelessly
  3. placelessness
  4. placemaker
  5. placemakers
  6. placemaking
  7. placeman
  8. placemanship
  9. placemark
  10. placemarked
  11. placemarker

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