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Placemaking in Practice - Experiences and Approaches from a Pan-European Perspective brings together a vibrant set of experiences linked to placemaking in urban environments. Approaches reflect on the potential of placemaking from different perspectives, disciplines and actors on what placemaking from different angles means in practice.
Carlos Smaniotto Costa is professor of Urban Landscape and Ecology at Universidade Lusófona. He has worked in several research projects and as an author, co-author and editor published numerous publications in Portuguese, English, German and Italian, including CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology - New Approaches and Perspectives (Springer, 2020). Mastoureh Fathi is lecturer in sociology, at University College Cork, Ireland. She has published extensively in the areas of home and migration, gender, identity and belonging. She has led on several projects funded by the EU, British Academy and Irish Research Council in the UK, Turkey, Germany and Ireland. Juan A. García-Esparza is an Associate Professor of Conservation and Maintenance at Universitat Jaume I. His current research focuses on historic towns and villages. He holds a Chair on Historical Centres and Cultural Routes (2015-2025), and he is an expert and elected member of the Executive of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Historic Towns and Villages CIVVIH (2021-2024).