"In this environmentally-sensitive book, Angelique Edmonds makes the urban environment come to life by highlighting the agency of non-human actors. . . . Combining a deep philosophical grounding and cutting-edge new ideas, she rethinks the whole field of urban design from the ground up. . . . Working through place, people and participation as her major concepts, Edmonds’ book left me with a generous feeling of openness and possibility. Concluding with a series of principles, this book should be an urban planner’s guidebook to participatory community-based work."

Stephen Muecke, Adelaide Review

"Improving people’s relationships with place requires connection, and in Connecting People, Place and Design, Edmonds demonstrates the importance of renewing connection by having a conceptual architecture and a set of practices working together to nurture and sustain places. . . . The Australian material affords the opportunity for a deeper engagement with interesting Aboriginal conceptions of place in this book, something to which Edmonds constantly returns. Through this major contrast with 'Western' thinking, she is able to offer a new perspective to the field of urban design, working from the ground up, a ground that includes the deep history of these two main traditions that converge in Australia, European and Aboriginal. . . .  Asking different humans (and even non-humans, who are not just externalities) to find ways of living together, to describe their concerns and what matters to them, is part of the ongoing process of designing a future together. In her book, Edmonds has set out a very useful way to do this, and it even concludes with a series of principles, making it an excellent urban planner’s guidebook to participatory community-based work."

Human Geography