Zitcer, A.
Making Up Creative Placemaking
(2020) Journal of Planning Education and Research, 40 (3), pp. 278-288.
Abstract
Creative placemaking is an increasingly prevalent form of planning practice that invokes arts and culture as tools for revitalization. Planners, policymakers, funders, and practitioners are engaged in a discursive struggle to define what is meant by creative placemaking and what value it holds for cities. Using frameworks developed by Foucault and Hacking, I analyze the emergence and ongoing contestation of this term, contrasting the way creative placemaking is understood and enacted by actors in Philadelphia with definitions employed by national funders. I argue that practitioner and community voices deserve amplification in the unfinished work of creative placemaking as urban practice. © The Author(s) 2018.
Author Keywords
arts; arts economic development; creative placemaking; discourse; Philadelphia
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