1st Edition

Reassembling Digital Placemaking Participation and Politics

By Isabel Fangyi Lu Copyright 2025
140 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents digital placemaking as a new testing ground for urban democracy. It explores the participatory practices of digital placemaking and their implications on blurring formal and informal boundaries of decision-making and urban politics. Drawing on examples from Australia, China and Taiwan, the book examines how contemporary cities are witnessing an era when digitality becomes a... Read more

1. Introduction, 2. Theorising Digital Placemaking, 3. Activist Assemblage, 4. Organisational Assemblage, 5. Governmental Assemblage, 6. Conclusion: Reassembling Digital Placemaking

Biography

Isabel Fangyi Lu is a Senior Project Adviser at the Department of Education, Victoria, Australia. She is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Having obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, she pursues interdisciplinary research and public projects at the intersection of technology, arts and built-environments.