The document discusses placemaking, which involves designing public spaces, buildings, and programming to create a sense of place and increase social and economic value. It draws from sociology and urbanism, with the goal of creating spaces that attract people and foster community. The OU Institute for Quality Communities focuses on placemaking through community input, data analysis, and developing blueprints for improving streetscapes in a lighter, quicker, cheaper manner. Examples of placemaking principles being utilized nearby are also discussed.

1. Shane Hampton
OU Institute for Quality Communities
PLACEMAKING

2. PLACEMAKING
Designing public spaces, buildings, and programming
to create a sense of place & increase social and
economic value.

3. City Planning
Architecture
Urban Design
Transportation
Place Management
Community Activism
Real Estate

6. ORIGINS
Sociology meets urbanism.

9. “Cities have the capability of
providing something for
everybody, only because, and
only when, they are created by
everybody.”
Jane Jacobs

11. “First life, then spaces, then
buildings. The other way around
never works.”
Jan Gehl

13. “It is difficult to design a space
that will not attract people.
What is remarkable is how often
this has been accomplished.”
William H. Whyte

15. “Streets have been the places
where children first learned
about the world, where
neighbors met, the social
centers of towns and cities…”
Donald Appleyard

17. PLACEMAKING
at the IQC.

20. COMMUNITY INPUT
Listen and observe community members.

23. How often do you visit more than one business?

26. DATA
Observe how the place functions.

33. 20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
11 a 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 p
Friday, 3/21 Occupancy Rates
16th Street vs Lyric-Owned Lots

34. 5-MINUTE WALK
2,600 residents
10-MINUTE WALK
7,200 residents
5-8 MINUTE BIKE
16,000 residents
10-15 MINUTE BIKE
45,500 residents

40. PLACEMAKING BLUEPRINT
Get the public space right.

42. STREETSCAPE FOR PLACEMAKING
Calm traffic
Maximize sidewalk space
Increase on-street parking
Create a district identity

47. LIGHTER, QUICKER,
CHEAPER
What can be done right away?

53. AROUND OKLAHOMA
Placemaking principles utilized nearby.

59. I Q C
OU Institute for Quality Communities
@OUIQC
shanehampton@ou.edu
iqc.ou.edu