Book contents
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Peer reviewers
- Editor’s note
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Environmental keystones: Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- SI prefixes
- Unit abbreviations
- Chemical formulae
- Part I Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
- 1 Asian identities
- 2 On sustainable development
- 3 Sustainability: A scientific dilemma
- 4 Respect and reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius
- 5 Sustainable development from an East-West integrative perspective: Eastern culture meets Western complexity theory
- 6 Sustainable urbanism: Measuring long-term architectural merit
- 7 Sustaining wooden architectural heritage
- 8 Green development in China
- 9 Bhutan’s sustainable development initiatives and Gross National Happiness
- 10 A different form of sustainable development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a sufficiency approach
- 11 The sustainability of food production in Papua New Guinea
- 12 Education for sustainable development: An overview of Asia-Pacific perspectives
- 13 A placemaking framework for the social sustainability of master-planned communities: A case study from Australia
- 14 Poverty, inequity, and environmental degradation: The key issues confronting the environment and sustainable development in Asia
- 15 The challenge of global climate change for international law: An overview
- 16 Sustainable development and climate change negotiations: Perspectives of developing countries
- Part II Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
- Endmatter
- References
13 - A placemaking framework for the social sustainability of master-planned communities: A case study from Australia
from Part I - Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
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Book contents
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Peer reviewers
- Editor’s note
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Environmental keystones: Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- SI prefixes
- Unit abbreviations
- Chemical formulae
- Part I Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
- 1 Asian identities
- 2 On sustainable development
- 3 Sustainability: A scientific dilemma
- 4 Respect and reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius
- 5 Sustainable development from an East-West integrative perspective: Eastern culture meets Western complexity theory
- 6 Sustainable urbanism: Measuring long-term architectural merit
- 7 Sustaining wooden architectural heritage
- 8 Green development in China
- 9 Bhutan’s sustainable development initiatives and Gross National Happiness
- 10 A different form of sustainable development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a sufficiency approach
- 11 The sustainability of food production in Papua New Guinea
- 12 Education for sustainable development: An overview of Asia-Pacific perspectives
- 13 A placemaking framework for the social sustainability of master-planned communities: A case study from Australia
- 14 Poverty, inequity, and environmental degradation: The key issues confronting the environment and sustainable development in Asia
- 15 The challenge of global climate change for international law: An overview
- 16 Sustainable development and climate change negotiations: Perspectives of developing countries
- Part II Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
- Endmatter
- References
Summary
Placemaking creates environments which are more active, memorable, and meaningful for people. It can provide several benefits, such as a high quality of life, a strong sense of community, and the creation of distinctive places. There is, however, a paucity of theoretical literature on placemaking in master-planned communities (MPCs). Therefore, this chapter develops a 4-P framework for placemaking in MPCs with the four important factors of Place, Programme, People, and Perception. It then applies the framework to a case study of Varsity Lakes, an MPC on the Gold Coast of Australia. It analyses the placemaking performance of the MPC in terms of social sustainability using the four factors and draws implications from the study. The chapter shows the importance of physical design as well as the process of placemaking to build sustainable communities. Some of the key ideas for placemaking include provision of places for social interaction, walkability, community governance, stakeholder engagement, legibility, safety, and sense of place. These ideas and the proposed framework could be relevant for the sustainable development of MPCs in the Asia-Pacific region.
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- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives , pp. 139 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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