Parise, Nathana (2020) Improving public spaces in the Netherlands: Determining best practices in placemaking according to different processes and outcomes. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Recent leadership-oriented research has begun to frame a “new” leadership of place, connecting government agendas and cross-boundary works with public services and placemaking, using approaches that integrate public, private and voluntary sectors (Collinge and Gibney, 2010). Sharing power and responsibilities provide a more networked and supportive community, increasing the capacity for adaptability. Reshaping a place together can maximize and strengthen the connection between places and the people that share those places, more than just promoting a better design, but also incentivizing creativity and collaboration, considering the identities that define a place. Placemaking is considered a process aiming at reshaping places using local knowledge and resources, empowering citizens, as an opposition to top-down planning developments, but so far there have not been so many papers addressing this subject. Therefore, the objective of this study is to gain in-depth knowledge about the placemaking movement in the Netherlands, analysing the best practices throughout different processes within these developments, and the consequences for the public spaces and the citizens who use them, based on four case-studies. Collective change becomes more attainable if we look at our cities as something that should be shaped for the human scale, in an affordable way, and considering both short and long-term transformations (PPS, 2015). We argue that placemaking can then be the mechanism to support this change, providing that it is done in a multidisciplinary way, integrating different actors, and critically reflecting about the lessons learned with each experience, in order to create flexible and adaptable places that are liveable, lovable, and that can continue to be sustainably improved for generations to come.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Boavida-Portugal, I. |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2020 11:12 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2020 11:12 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3359 |
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