Building and Sustaining Communities

Placemaking, from a social inclusion perspective, is an approach that puts the community front and centre of deciding how a place looks and how it functions. Acknowledging people’s sense of place and place identity, the approach involves an exploration of how the built environment provides a connection between physical locales and social needs.

This course introduces placemaking as a people-centred approach to the planning, design and management of space to promote community cohesion and social inclusion. The urban planning process highlighted in this course will focus on three principles of placemaking – inclusion, diversity and participation. Through seminars, case discussions and site visits, this course provides urban designers, city-building professionals, community development practitioners and facility managers an opportunity to explore the key concepts, benefits, and tools of inclusive placemaking for building and sustaining communities. By exploring real-world practices in response to current urban challenges such as double ageing, geographical inequality and housing insecurity, this course will give participants a first-hand experience of why inclusive placemaking matters and how to do it.

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