Building Cities with Social Value Design, Architecture, and Art in Collaborative Urban Practice

This book explores how collaborative creative practices in the built environment can generate forms of social value that are often incompatible with conventional frameworks, but essential to promoting meaningful, systemic change. It explores how diverse disciplines such as architecture, design, fashion, ceramics, and fine art engage publics, reshape relationships with place, and nurture the conditions for long-term collaboration, care and trust. Cases from the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, and Indonesia show how planners, designers and others can integrate these practices into their own work. Rather than focusing solely on what social value is, this book reveals what social value does in practice. It provides practitioners, policymakers, educators, and students with practical insights into how to cultivate and embed the conditions through which social value emerges over time.