DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/VY9M-F473
Defense Date
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Urban & Regional Planning
Department
Urban and Regional Planning
First Advisor
Kathryn Howell
Second Advisor
Michael Dickinson
Third Advisor
Fabrizio Fasulo
Abstract
Placemaking is a tool largely employed in gentrifying cities to create social and cultural character in space. However, the informal placemaking that naturally occurs in communities and public space is often left out of the placemaking planning process. Informal placemaking that existed in space before and after gentrification, often by the working class, may find itself the target of policing from class and racial power structures that new residents now making up the majority bring. Alongside gentrification is its use of placemaking as branding for space, which Black American culture is increasingly being operationalized. Using Washington D.C.’s U Street Corridor as a case study, an area that is historically Black with a strong application of Black branding, the purpose and use of informal placemaking in contesting space is examined.
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-21-2020