People: the individuals who make the built environment their own
Place making is a process that is fundamental to people’s lives and its outcome is at the core of the built environment in which they live. The individual environments of home or workplace are a response to both their need for a protective habitat, a feeling of belonging and their creative response to life.
Because, for many people, these needs are communal ones they come together to live in towns and cities. In this context people make places through which they express themselves and the culture to which they belong. The context of urban living reflects the creativity of all the others who have made parts of this environment their own over time.
It is the lives of the people who inhabit towns and cities that give them their vitality and diversity. Things occur in places due to the presence of people. Such activities over time become associated with urban spaces and it is these that are the building blocks of place making and the stories of urban memory.
It is the lives of the people who inhabit towns and cities that give them their vitality and diversity. Things occur in places due to the presence of people. Such activities over time become associated with urban spaces and it is these that are the building blocks of place making and the stories of urban memory.
