All of the A-level specifications in the ‘Spaces and Places’ component require students to have an understanding of how communities play a role in shaping places, particularly during periods of rebranding and regeneration. Both Edexcel and OCR also require students to explore the use of social media in either understanding how people relate to the places where they live or how local community groups use these tools to shape the places where they live.
In 1961, Jane Jacobs wrote in her important book The Death and Life of Great American Cities that ‘cities have the capability of providing for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody’. Successful urban regeneration that is ‘created by everybody’ requires the involvement of a wide range of ‘players’, some of whom are professional placemakers like planners, while others are based within the community such as residents’ groups.
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