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IHBC\u2019s heritage business register HESPR \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition<\/a> quality assurance scheme for heritage services \u2013 emails members weekly \u2018News and Tender Alerts<\/a>\u2019, and this week features the IHBC in Designing Buildings<\/em> with Reinier de Graaf in Dezeen <\/em>confessing:<\/em> \u2018<\/em>I have no idea what placemaking is\u2019.<\/p>\n Reinier de Graaf writes in Dezeen:<\/em><\/p>\n Discussions about planning and urbanism are awash with talk of \u2018placemaking\u2019 but the term remains strangely and troublingly opaque, writes Reinier de Graaf.<\/p>\n UK housing secretary Michael Gove is backing the creation of a new \u2018School of Place\u2019….Edinburgh Council has invited the public to participate in a \u2018placemaking consultation\u2019….<\/p>\n I have a confession to make: I have no idea what \u2018placemaking\u2019 is….The word, for one, does not feature in any English dictionary…<\/p>\n What most attempts at describing placemaking disturbingly have in common is that rather than tell us about placemaking, they mostly seem to argue for placemaking, without ever properly revealing why….<\/p>\n I too, have done projects under the guise of placemaking. Mea culpa. I’ve sat through hours and hours of planning sessions dedicated to the subject\u2026 I wonder if that is\u2026 a lack of definition that enables a consensus between opposing interest, one that frees people from having to see eye-to-eye and allows business to continue as usual….<\/p>\n Read more and listen to the story…<\/a><\/p>\n DB<\/em> features:<\/p>\n Download the HESPR flyer<\/a><\/p>\n Download sample weekly alert<\/a><\/p>\n See IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC\u2019s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/u>, as soon as possible.<\/p>\n Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with IHBC Jobs etc<\/a><\/u><\/em>, including a targeted email to 2500+ recipients as well as full coverage on our NewsBlog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.25,000) and websites with c. 250,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [slideshow_deploy id=’37745′] [Slideshow HESPR News Alert – Special Feature Marcel Breuer by unknown – immediate source Robert F Gatje and the Bauhaus Archive] IHBC\u2019s heritage business register HESPR \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for … Continue reading \u2026 The word\u2026.does not feature in any English dictionary\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n
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