Purpose The surge of digital technologies and information communication technologies
poses a challenge to traditional placemaking, influencing how people live, communicate …

Stories play an exceptionally important role in how people assign value to a place. Taken
together, all those stories essentially give a place an identity. The aim of placemaking is to …

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a sudden and widespread reorganization of public
spaces, underpinned by digital technologies. The impromptu, ad hoc and collective …

The city of Ternate has an interesting long history supported by beautiful natural scenery
and rich culture. However, these days, Ternate has not yet identified its identity and …

Participatory urban planning does not take place outside of social systems of privilege and
discrimination; likewise, the negotiation of knowledge claims in planning processes is …

This chapter tells the story of developing an ethos and approach, which embraces
participatory research and community development, to rethink poverty at the local level in …

The main objective of this chapter is to explore how cities and regions can use digital
storytelling strategies to reach and engage with their target audiences. Despite the growing …

This chapter revisits a research question that, first, embarked on exploring the formal-
informal approach to urban design praxis. This initially qualitative research, fortuitously …

Museum architecture is required to tell a story more than just the physical building to be able
to convey the knowledge and messages it carries. When architecture can be enjoyed …

My research explores community engagement in New York City's (NYC) green space
planning to understand how urban governance can be more inclusive and accountable to …