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Placemaking and participation libraryDespite our strong belief in the practical aspect of placemaking, we still find it extremely useful to be aware of the current academic discource in the field. Here you will find articles and books which could be helpful in getting familiar with the discussion. Not all of those texts reflect our position, and we encourage you to approach them critically. 

  1. 2016. “Placemaking (and the Production of Places): Origins.” PLACENESS, PLACE, PLACELESSNESS, January 18. https://www.placeness.com/placemaking-and-the-production-of-places-origins-and-early-development/.
  2. Allen, Tania, and Sara Glee Queen. 2018. “Critical Placemaking: Towards a More Critical Engagement for Participatory Design in the Urban Environment.” Paper presented at DRS2018: Design as a catalyst for change. June 25. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2018.675.
  3. Amirzadeh, Melika, and Ayyoob Sharifi. 2024. “The Evolutionary Path of Place Making: From Late Twentieth Century to Post-Pandemic Cities.” Land Use Policy 141 (June): 107124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107124.
  4. Beswick, Katie. 2024. Specific Places/Global Spaces: Arrival — Neoliberal Placemaking in East London’s Royal Docks. Edited by Victoria Hunter and Cathy Turner. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Site-Specific-Performance/Hunter-Turner/p/book/9781032254104.
  5. Bosman, Caryl, and Dianne Dredge. n.d. Histories of Placemaking in the Gold Coast City: The Neoliberal Norm, the State Story and the Community Narrative.
  6. Courage, Cara, and Anita McKeown. 2018. Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice. In Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315104607.
  7. Fincher, Ruth, Maree Pardy, and Kate Shaw. 2016. “Place-Making or Place-Masking? The Everyday Political Economy of ‘Making Place.’” Planning Theory & Practice 17 (4): 516–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2016.1217344.
  8. Friedmann, John. 2010. “Place and Place-Making in Cities: A Global Perspective.” Planning Theory & Practice 11 (2): 149–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649351003759573.
  9. Garrett, Bradley L. 2014. “Undertaking Recreational Trespass: Urban Exploration and Infiltration.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39 (1): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12001.
  10. Günay, Melis, and Laura Schöngart. 2023. “Planning for Resonant Urban Spaces : Introducing a Theoretical Framework for Studying Making-Practices.” Pnd - Rethinking Planning 2023(1) 145–164: pages 145-164. pages 145-164. https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-2023-04112.
  11. Horgan, Donagh, and Ko Koens. 2025. “Your Place or Mine? Overcoming Neoliberal Placemaking as Commodification of Built Environments in the Inclusive City.” SSRN Scholarly Paper No. 5201827. Social Science Research Network, April 2. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5201827.
  12. Hou, Jeffrey, ed. 2010. Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203093009.
  13. Kudla, Daniel. 2024. “Masking Visible Poverty through ‘Activation’: Creative Placemaking as a Compassionate Revanchist Policy.” Social & Cultural Geography 25 (4): 562–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2177717.
  14. Long, Joshua. 2013. “Sense of Place and Place-Based Activism in the Neoliberal City: The Case of ‘weird’ Resistance.” City: Analysis of Urban Trends 17 (February). https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2012.754186.
  15. Low, Setha. 2015. “Public Space and the Public Sphere: The Legacy of Neil Smith.” Antipode 49 (September): 153–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12189.
  16. Office, Antipode Editorial. 2012. “Video Abstract - Kelvin Mason and Mark Whitehead Talk about ‘Transition Urbanism and the Contested Politics of Ethical Place Making.’” Antipode Online, February 26. https://antipodeonline.org/2012/02/26/video-abstract-kelvin-mason-and-mark-whitehead-talk-about-transition-urbanism-and-the-contested-politics-of-ethical-place-making/.
  17. Smirnova, Vera, and Vanessa Guerra. 2017. “Placemaking Revisited.” Community Change 1 (1): 68. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v1i1.a.8.
  18. Toolis, Erin E. 2017. “Theorizing Critical Placemaking as a Tool for Reclaiming Public Space.” American Journal of Community Psychology 59 (1–2): 184–99. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12118.
  19. Xue, Ellen Ying. 2022. “Tourism as Creative Destruction: Place Making and Resilience in Rural Areas.” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 20 (6): 827–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2022.2114359.
  20. Akmentiņa, Lita. “Participatory Planning in Post-Socialist Cities: A Case Study of Riga.” Architecture and Urban Planning 16, no. 1 (2020): 17–25. https://doi.org/10.2478/aup-2020-0004.
  21. Alpert, Burt, and Patricia A. Smith. “How Participation Works.” Journal of Social Issues 5, no. 1 (1949): 3–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1949.tb02102.x.
  22. Arnstein, Sherry R. “A Ladder Of Citizen Participation.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 35, no. 4 (1969): 216–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944366908977225.
  23. Bajmócy, Zoltán. Participation in Urban Planning and the Post-Socialist Legacy. Revisiting Maier’s Hypothesis Through the Case of Hungary. n.d.
  24. Bechtel, Robert B., and Arza Churchman. Handbook of Environmental Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
  25. Bickerstaff, Karen, and Gordon Walker. “Shared Visions, Unholy Alliances: Power, Governance and Deliberative Processes in Local Transport Planning.” Urban Studies 42, no. 12 (2005): 2123–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980500332098.
  26. Blagojević, Mina, and Ana Perić. “The Diffusion of Participatory Planning Ideas and Practices: The Case of Socialist Yugoslavia, 1961-1982.” Journal of Urban History 49, no. 4 (2023): 797–820. https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442211044501.
  27. Blundell-Jones, Peter. Architecture and Participation. 1st ed. With Doina Petrescu and Jeremy Till. Routledge, 2013.
  28. Brand, Ralf, and Frank Gaffikin. “Collaborative Planning in an Uncollaborative World.” Planning Theory 6, no. 3 (2007): 282–313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095207082036.
  29. Brody, Luca Sara. The Limits to Participation: Dynamics of State-Civil Society Relationships in Barcelona and Budapest. September 26, 2019. https://iris.gssi.it/handle/20.500.12571/9731.
  30. Burke, Edmund M. “Citizen Participation Strategies.” Journal of the American Institute of Planners 34, no. 5 (1968): 287–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944366808977547.
  31. Cabannes, Yves, Zhuang Ming, Vladimir Vladimirovich Vagin, et al. Highlights on Some Asian and Russian Participatory Budgeting Pioneers. n.d.
  32. Cooke, Bill, and Uma Kothari. Participation: The New Tyranny? Zed Books, 2001.
  33. DeSARIO, Jack, and Stuart Langton. “Citizen Participation and Technocracy.” Review of Policy Research 3, no. 2 (1984): 223–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.1984.tb00116.x.
  34. Donnison, David. “The Age of Innocence Is Past: Some Ideas about Urban Research and Planning’.” Urban Studies 12, no. 3 (1975): 263–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420987520080521.
  35. Häikiö, Liisa. “From Innovation to Convention: Legitimate Citizen Participation in Local Governance.” Local Government Studies 38, no. 4 (2012): 415–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2012.698241.
  36. Hart, Roger A. Children’s Participation: From Tokenism to Citizenship. UNICEF International Child Development Centre, 1992.
  37. Held, David. Models of Democracy, 3rd Edition. Stanford University Press, 2006.
  38. Hilbrandt, Hanna. “Insurgent Participation: Consensus and Contestation in Planning the Redevelopment of Berlin-Tempelhof Airport.” Urban Geography 38, no. 4 (2017): 537–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1168569.
  39. Hillier, Joseph. “Politics of The Ring: Limits to Public Participation in Engineering Practice.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 42, no. 2 (2018): 334–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12523.
  40. Howe, Elizabeth. “Normative Ethics in Planning.” Journal of Planning Literature 5, no. 2 (1990): 123–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/088541229000500201.
  41. Huxley, Margo. “Historicizing Planning, Problematizing Participation.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37, no. 5 (2013): 1527–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12045.
  42. Inch, Andy. “Ordinary Citizens and the Political Cultures of Planning: In Search of the Subject of a New Democratic Ethos.” Planning Theory 14, no. 4 (2015): 404–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095214536172.
  43. Iveson, Kurt. Mobile Media and the Strategies of Urban Citizenship: Control, Responsibilization, Politicization. November 18, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/8744.003.0008.
  44. Jenkins, Paul, and Leslie Forsyth, eds. Architecture, Participation and Society. Routledge, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203869499.
  45. Kiernan, M. J. “Ideology, Politics, and Planning: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Urban Planning.” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 10, no. 1 (1983): 71–87. https://doi.org/10.1068/b100071.
  46. Kozlova, L. V., and V. V. Kozlov. “Principles of Improvement of Large City Public Space (by Example of Irkutsk City).” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 262, no. 1 (2017): 012228. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/262/1/012228.
  47. Kühn, Manfred. “Agonistic Planning Theory Revisited: The Planner’s Role in Dealing with Conflict.” Planning Theory20, no. 2 (2021): 143–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095220953201.
  48. Lauria, Mickey, and Carissa Schively Slotterback, eds. Learning from Arnstein’s Ladder: From Citizen Participation to Public Engagement. Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290091.
  49. Potter, Gwen. Public Participation in Planning as Urban Citizenship: n.d.
  50. White, Sarah C. “Depoliticising Development: The Uses and Abuses of Participation.” Development in Practice 6, no. 1 (1996): 6–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/0961452961000157564.
  51. Zhang, Lin, Pieter Hooimeijer, Yanliu Lin, and Stan Geertman. “Roles and Motivations of Planning Professionals Who Promote Public Participation in Urban Planning Practice: Two Case Studies from Beijing, China.” Urban Affairs Review 56, no. 4 (2020): 1237–62. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087419895116.
 
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