Place-making or place-masking? The everyday political economy of "making place". (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fincher, Ruth; Pardy, Maree; Shaw, Kate
• Is Part Of: Planning theory & practice. Volume 17:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 516
• Page End: 536
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: Place-making -- social equity -- gentrification -- urban renewal -- Melbourne; City planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; 307.1205
• DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2016.1217344
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1464-9357

Abstract

Abstract: As redevelopment and gentrification strategies globally continue to be aimed at attracting wealthier residents and consumers in an effort to drive economic growth, concerns for and interventions in the interests of social equity appear decreasingly relevant. Government, private sector and community organisations have of course worked together in different times and places to implement programs that are more rather than less inclusive – the variations always depending on the spatial politics of the context. This paper examines contemporary discourses and practices of place-making in Melbourne, and asks whether ways of thinking about urban redevelopment as place-making in this time and place are likely to enable the inclusion of social equity in these urban "improvements".