Social Sustainability
Placemaking
A collaborative approach to designing public spaces around the needs and identity of the people who use them, strengthening community and place quality.
Definition
Placemaking is a participatory process for planning, designing and managing public spaces — streets, squares, parks, waterfronts — that builds on a community's assets and aspirations to create places that promote health, happiness and wellbeing. Popularised by Project for Public Spaces from the 1970s onward, it treats quality places as the outcome of community engagement, not just professional design.
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