Public Spaces and Placemaking Approach: The Implementation Strategies

Abstract

The focus of this chapter is to identify the definitions of public spaces and the role they play in daily life, whether cultural or social.In addition to that, the chapter aims to analyse placemaking as an approach “in practice” to better regenerate public spaces in contemporary cities, and how the different implementation techniques and strategies used for placemaking have proven to provide diverse economic and social results.Thus, placemaking is not an easy topic to wrestle with; the implementation policies differ widely between European and US contexts.Definitions are tricky and fundamentally intertwined with the execution level to which strategies lead, whether that be a top-down approach from a governmental agency or a bottom-up approach from grassroots or citizen movements.