築城鄉-Huang, Shu-mei and Roberts, J. (2019) Place-making (entry). In Anthony M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.

Huang, Shu-mei and Roberts, J. (2019) Place-making (entry). In Anthony M. Orum (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.

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Place‐making is an assemblage of related concepts and practices predicated on the phenomenon of place. Although scholars have mostly focused on human actions in particular locations and have prioritized the significance of materiality, some have argued that place is porous and multiscalar and contains multiple human and nonhuman actors. As a process, it can be conceived of as a bundle of numerous actors rather than as a prescribed territory. As praxis, it has been a loosely defined set of practices that seek to make, transform, and care for places and for the people in them. This process tends to be inclusive and is often synonymous with community‐building, which celebrates collective action, sometimes without sufficient recognition of the politics in place‐making. Given the increasing mobility of our world, mobility and place cannot be binaries. Today, to consider mobility in the discussion of place‐making is not just a theoretical discussion but also an empirical imperative.