Abstract

Peripheral areas have utilized placemaking and tourism to address their economic and demographic challenges. When a 2007 tornado destroyed 95% of peripheral Greensburg, Kansas, the city used the subsequent window of opportunity to implement tangible, strategic combined green placemaking and place-making that involved green/advanced technologies and tourism based on the green buildings. However, the technocratic green solutions and placemaking did not fully acknowledge the structural issues related to Greensburg’s peripheral location such as increased transportation and housing construction costs that have hampered the city’s recovery. For peripheral areas following a natural disaster, national and state government support for affordable housing and for linking these areas’ unique assets and entrepreneurs to markets is required to compliment placemaking. Greensburg’s green pedigree also needs to be translated in an ongoing, understandable way to sustainability tourists. For such post-disaster peripheral places, placemaking should not be viewed as a panacea and solely through an economic lens, but rather as part of a long-term strategy for revitalization and for contributing to increased resiliency, community pride, and a new sense of place.

摘要

周边地区利用场所营造和旅游业来应对经济和人口挑战。当 2007 年的龙卷风摧毁了堪萨斯州格林斯堡 95% 的周边地区时，该市利用随后的机会窗口实施了有形的、战略性的联合绿色场所营造和场所营造，其中涉及绿色/先进技术和基于绿色建筑的旅游业。然而，技术官僚的绿色解决方案和场所营造并没有完全认识到与格林斯堡周边位置相关的结构性问题，例如交通和住房建设成本的增加阻碍了城市的复苏。对于自然灾害后的周边地区，需要国家和州政府支持负担得起的住房以及将这些地区的独特资产和企业家与市场联系起来，以补充场所营造。格林斯堡的绿色血统也需要以一种持续的、易于理解的方式为可持续发展的游客翻译。对于这样的灾后周边地区，场所营造不应被视为灵丹妙药，也不应仅从经济角度来看，而应作为振兴长期战略的一部分，并有助于提高弹性、社区自豪感和新的社区意识。地方。