Placemaking in the Digital Media Era

Abstract

In recent years, placemaking has emerged as a cooperative process for improving urban environments. The design of physical space is an essential aspect for enabling changes in these environments. However, as people and communities can now interact with places locally and globally in real time, placemaking processes can be influenced and enabled by digital media. This paper argues that placemaking initiatives need to consider the new embedded reality of physical and digital interactions to strategically plan and design urban projects in the digital media era.