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ABSTRACT
Placemaking is a form of public engagement that impacts community development by building social capital, motivating public policy, and shaping real estate development. Popular across public-focused industries, placemaking permeates strategies for community development. This project seeks to elucidate the extent to which community development-centered institutions engage in placemaking and for what reasons. The institutions of focus in this study are community development corporations (CDCs). Employing a survey of CDC associates, the data reveal that placemaking is, in fact, a well-known and oft-practiced strategy among CDCs for myriad reasons – among them an alignment and reliance on local assets – all with the ultimate end of developing communities across the United States.
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Notes
1. 29 CDCs had no e-mail addresses available on their websites.
2. Technically there were 112 surveys submitted, but only 106 provided substantive information.
3. Objective assessment of placemaking, and in particular creative placemaking, is difficult for a number of reasons. For a robust discussion, see Markusen (Citation2013a), Moss (Citation2012), and Nicodemus (Citation2013).