Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction into to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities.
The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary trauma, including trauma caused by placemakers. It introduces the potential of place and place practitioners to heal. Offering 20 original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises across 33 first and third person chapters, multi-disciplinary insights are presented across organised into four sections that lead the reader to gain an awareness of how trauma and healing operate in place. The book offers a first gathering of the current praxis in the field; how we can move from trauma in place to healing in place, and concludes with calls to action for the trauma informe
