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Place-making or place-masking? The everyday political economy of “making place”

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  • Ruth Fincher
  • Maree Pardy
  • Kate Shaw

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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”.

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  • Ruth Fincher & Maree Pardy & Kate Shaw, 2016. "Place-making or place-masking? The everyday political economy of “making place”," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 516-536, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:17:y:2016:i:4:p:516-536
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2016.1217344
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    1. Ramon Marrades & Philippa Collin & Michelle Catanzaro & Eveline Mussi, 2021. "Planning from Failure: Transforming a Waterfront through Experimentation in a Placemaking Living Lab," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(1), pages 221-234.
    2. Ahoura Zandiatashbar & Carla Maria Kayanan, 2020. "Negative Consequences of Innovation-Igniting Urban Developments: Empirical Evidence from Three US Cities," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(3), pages 378-391.

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