Planning and place identity

Abstract

Concepts of ‘place’ and neighbourhood ‘character’ have emerged in recent decades to take key roles in the discourse and practice of urban planning - deployed in the defence and protection of existing urban neighbourhoods against transformational change, but also in the design and marketing of new developments (see also Low, Paddison, Nyseth and Montgomery, Chapters 17, 18, 19 and 20, this volume). This chapter explores the relationships of place identity to urban planning. How is neighbourhood place identity experienced in everyday life? How is it defined and constructed in planning discourses and legislative practices? How is it created through urban design and protected through regulation?..