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Place Vibrancy And Its Measurement: Construct Development, Scale Development, And Field Study Of Its Relationship To Planning Interventions For Three Villages In The Town Of Montague, Massachusetts, John D. Delconte
Doctoral Dissertations
The process of using arts and culture to change the physical and social character of places has been defined as ‘creative placemaking’. Creative placemaking granting agencies originally considered constructing ‘livability’ and ‘vibrancy’ indicators to characterize the outcomes of their programs. However, the research community critiqued these indicators, which were considered too nebulous, and efforts to develop them were halted. Other researchers have sought to measure place vibrancy in other contexts. This study revives the initial line of inquiry for using ‘vibrancy’ as a measure of creative placemaking effectiveness and of revitalization efforts more generally. Here, place vibrancy is proposed as …
Cultural Placemaking In Washington’S U Street Corridor: A Catch 22, Maya Coleman
Cultural Placemaking In Washington’S U Street Corridor: A Catch 22, Maya Coleman
Theses and Dissertations
Placemaking is a tool largely employed in gentrifying cities to create social and cultural character in space. However, the informal placemaking that naturally occurs in communities and public space is often left out of the placemaking planning process. Informal placemaking that existed in space before and after gentrification, often by the working class, may find itself the target of policing from class and racial power structures that new residents now making up the majority bring. Alongside gentrification is its use of placemaking as branding for space, which Black American culture is increasingly being operationalized. Using Washington D.C.’s U Street Corridor …