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Local government and developers often engage in and support placemaking activities when these projects help them to achieve their various responsibilities in creating, enhancing and managing good quality places. They support placemaking when the activity works within, or extends, their capacity to address their responsibilities. In this chapter, we explore these responsibilities and capacities of local governments and developers, as a way to understand why they value placemaking. We do this through interviews with placemakers across government, private and community sectors, as well as the case study of the Town Team Movement and Inglewood on Beaufort. Local governments’ responsibilities have expanded but their resources have not. Local governments are seeking ways to meet these growing expectations to deliver place outcomes and have identified partnering with local community as one way to help achieve this. Developers are required to make a profit, but are also bound by social contract. These two drivers may be met through investment in place quality which both services users and attracts investment. Local governments and developers see value in placemaking because of this tension between responsibilities and capacities.
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The interviews ranged from 30 minutes to 1 hour in duration. Using a semi-structured approach, the same set of [eight] questions were asked of 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 10 draws on the leadership themes of the interview. Interviewees were selected to compose a cross section of placemaking activity in Western Australia including local community organisations, local government urban planning and placemaking (in both inner suburban and outer suburban contexts), major private investor developments and major state government developments.
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Unless otherwise cited, quotations and background information for this section were provided by Dean Cracknell, CEO of the Town Team Movement, through interview and conversation with the authors.
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Unless otherwise cited, background information and direct quotations within this section were provided by a member of Inglewood on Beaufort through interview and conversations with the authors.
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Creagh, R., Babb, C., Farley, H. (2020). Local Governments and Developers in Placemaking: Defining Their Responsibilities and Capacities to Shape Place. 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_6
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