Categories of Placemaking.
Placemaking can be landscaping for Activities held on a regular basis in a specific place for a particular landscaping for regular outdoor concerts.
Or it can be for a piece of public art specifically designed for a particular site like a sculpture, sculptural installation or architectural installation; eg, for an arts garden.

Landscaping for a purpose.
For people
Making a place in your locality, big or small, for being active yourself or listening and watching others.

Examples include:
Making places like outdoor amphitheatres for festivals and performances, open areas for markets and out door exhibitions, gateways and pathways for bike riding, walking and running, and exercising.

For aesthetic reasons.
Murals, sculpture, paving, signage, lighting and plantings, to provide an entrance or gateway to an area.
To provide a place for people to shop, sit, rest and contemplate.

For environmental reasons.
Making a habitat for birds, animals or insects.

For health and safety.
Providing a car free or pollution free environment; a shady or sheltered space.
Stopping or alleviating pollution.
Placemaking spaces can be developed from well used spaces which just need some changes to suit a particular purpose.
As well, places can be developed for specific uses from derelict spaces.
Placemaking can also be naming or designating a place or an object which is special to people by putting up a sign or other symbol.
A significant place could be a tree, a corner, a street, a park, a building or other any place.
This could be for a day or for a longer period.

Placemaking can be
Making an object which will serve to symbolise a place.
Examples include local distinctiveness textile maps; small scale sculpture placed in places of significance; publishing stories, poetry, drawings and paintings by local writers and artists about their locality in a local newsletter.