A SENSE OF PLACE

Developers are looking to put the soul back into cities with developments that deliver more than the sum of their parts, writes Richard Warren

One of the dictionary definitions of the word “place” is “a person’s home.” Just as we might turn a house into a home by filling it with soft furnishings, heart-warming mementoes and artworks, so developers, urban planners and architects look to transform unloved districts into destinations people will want to call home. They call this process “place-making.” These large-scale developments are designed to create not merely a collection of new buildings, but a community that includes shops, offices, leisure facilities, cultural venues, transport links and even schools and medical facilities. Initially mooted in the 1960s as a means to revive communities, place-making has become the fashionable approach to holistic urban redevelopment in cities around the world, from London to Los Angeles to Shanghai and beyond. Place-making sweeps away the old…

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