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An examination of leadership in placemaking requires a different perspective; one that takes a broad look at all stakeholders involved, observing and interpreting behaviour and actions. This chapter explores a dynamic leadership approach in which the different leadership roles can be accommodated and all stakeholders are empowered to engage and contribute to placemaking projects regardless of organisational structure. Through experience and critical reflection, placemakers can learn to recognise the changes in situations, the dynamic roles within placemaking, and the different scales of interactions as they occur. As placemakers, we seek to support placemaking through the development of leadership and the ability to drive placemaking. You are invited to review your own capabilities and biases, understand your leadership role in placemaking, and support leadership in others using the Leadership in Placemaking Reflective Tool. We believe this tool has the potential to challenge current practices and support the development of critical reflection in placemaking.

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    The interviews ranged from about 30 minutes to 1 hour in duration. Using a semi-structured approach, the same set of questions were asked to each of the interviewees with follow-up questions typically focusing on Western Australian examples of placemaking. The questions for the first half of the interview focused on the value of placemaking and the second half on leadership within placemaking. Chapter 6 draws on the values of placemaking presented in the interviews. Interviewees were selected to compose a cross-section of placemaking activity in Western Australia including in the context of local community organisation, local government urban planning and placemaking (in both inner suburban and outer suburban contexts), major private investor developments and major state government developments. There were overlaps between these contexts in the examples.

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  1. School of Arts and Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, WA, Australia

    Lara Mackintosh

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  1. Place Agency, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Dominique Hes

  2. Thrive Research Hub and Place Agency, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Cristina Hernandez-Santin

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Mackintosh, L. (2020). Leadership in Placemaking. In: Hes, D., Hernandez-Santin, C. (eds) Placemaking Fundamentals for the Built Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9624-4_10

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