Creating public value through caring for place
本文提出一种关系性方法来理解地方品质及其治理，探讨如何通过关怀地方来促进公共价值，并作为民主参与实践的学习场域。
This essay argues for a relational approach to place qualities and their governance. The argument is developed through a discussion of first, the meaning and significance of place, second, the formation of collective attention, publics and the civil sphere; and third, the challenge of developing moral frames among such publics within which complex judgements about conflicting perceptions and values about place qualities can be situated. Promoting public value through caring for place in this way could act as a significant learning arena for renewing practices of democratic engagement.