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.
This document discusses how creativity and culture can contribute to more inclusive and equitable community planning processes. It provides three key ways that artists can be involved: 1) Artists can help engage more community stakeholders in planning by designing creative events to gather input; 2) Artists can help communities imagine new possibilities and futures for their place by helping visualize alternatives; 3) Artists can highlight and support existing cultural assets in a community that may not otherwise be recognized in traditional planning processes. Involving artists in community planning can lead to more representative and impactful plans.
The activities and the research of the group, acting as a collaborative platform between web and territory.
Milano
Fabbrica del Vapore
28-30 Novembre 2013
The document discusses new tools for civic engagement in Virginia's New River Valley region. It summarizes challenges facing the region, including a declining manufacturing sector, troubling health statistics, and an aging population. Traditional public meetings are criticized for their inaccessibility and lack of two-way dialogue. Alternative engagement methods discussed include story circles, performance theater, and an interactive game called BUILT NRV. The game aims to foster collaboration across neighborhoods and towns by having participants consider priorities, tradeoffs, and potential strategies. Feedback on the game was positive, with some saying it encouraged thinking more about community dynamics and the need for compromise. Contact information is provided for organizations involved in the new civic dialogue efforts.
Handmade urbanism refers to urban change and development carried out by local residents through their own efforts and means to address problems in their neighborhoods. It typically results in improvements to both the built environment and quality of life through community-led initiatives that recognize local needs, utilize existing resources creatively, and forge partnerships. Studies of handmade urbanism acknowledge the significant role residents have played in building parts of cities without assistance from formal planning or design processes.
Anne Markusen - How Do We Know Creative Placemaking is Working?Place Maker
Ann Markusen is Director of the Arts Economy Initiative and the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and Principal of Markusen Economic Research. She is a researcher, frequent public speaker, and advisor to public agencies, policymakers, businesses, economic developers, and nonprofit organizations across the US, in Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia and Brazil. Her expertise is in economic development at the state and local level, where she brings analytical skills to bear on the ways that industries and occupations shape possibilities for creating good work. Markusen is currently serving as research and writing consultant for the Minnesota House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs.
Markusen’s research and policy work has also been directly toward pressing economic development issues at national and local scales, including business tax incentives (Reining in the Competition for Capital, 2007), minimum wage legislation, military industrial conversion (Arming the Future: a Defense Industry for the 20th Century, 1999; Dismantling the Cold War Economy, 1992; The Rise of the Gunbelt, 1991) high tech job growth (High Tech America 1985), energy boomtowns, and state/local public finance. Over the years, her op eds have been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and many regional dallies, and she has been a frequent radio and television commentator.
Parks as Multi-Use Destinations and Catalysts for Community DevelopmentPark Pride
Presentation from Park Pride's 2015 Parks and Greenspace Conference. The presenter is Cynthia Nikitin.
With the importance of parks growing in the public's consciousness, now is the time to question what distinguishes great parks. Project for Public Spaces has identified nine strategies that help parks achieve their full potential to become active, multi-use, accessible, inclusive, safe public spaces that enhance neighborhoods and catalyze local economic development, highlight community authenticity and support multiple users.
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.
This document discusses how creativity and culture can contribute to more inclusive and equitable community planning processes. It provides three key ways that artists can be involved: 1) Artists can help engage more community stakeholders in planning by designing creative events to gather input; 2) Artists can help communities imagine new possibilities and futures for their place by helping visualize alternatives; 3) Artists can highlight and support existing cultural assets in a community that may not otherwise be recognized in traditional planning processes. Involving artists in community planning can lead to more representative and impactful plans.
The activities and the research of the group, acting as a collaborative platform between web and territory.
Milano
Fabbrica del Vapore
28-30 Novembre 2013
The document discusses new tools for civic engagement in Virginia's New River Valley region. It summarizes challenges facing the region, including a declining manufacturing sector, troubling health statistics, and an aging population. Traditional public meetings are criticized for their inaccessibility and lack of two-way dialogue. Alternative engagement methods discussed include story circles, performance theater, and an interactive game called BUILT NRV. The game aims to foster collaboration across neighborhoods and towns by having participants consider priorities, tradeoffs, and potential strategies. Feedback on the game was positive, with some saying it encouraged thinking more about community dynamics and the need for compromise. Contact information is provided for organizations involved in the new civic dialogue efforts.
Handmade urbanism refers to urban change and development carried out by local residents through their own efforts and means to address problems in their neighborhoods. It typically results in improvements to both the built environment and quality of life through community-led initiatives that recognize local needs, utilize existing resources creatively, and forge partnerships. Studies of handmade urbanism acknowledge the significant role residents have played in building parts of cities without assistance from formal planning or design processes.
Anne Markusen - How Do We Know Creative Placemaking is Working?Place Maker
Ann Markusen is Director of the Arts Economy Initiative and the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and Principal of Markusen Economic Research. She is a researcher, frequent public speaker, and advisor to public agencies, policymakers, businesses, economic developers, and nonprofit organizations across the US, in Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia and Brazil. Her expertise is in economic development at the state and local level, where she brings analytical skills to bear on the ways that industries and occupations shape possibilities for creating good work. Markusen is currently serving as research and writing consultant for the Minnesota House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs.
Markusen’s research and policy work has also been directly toward pressing economic development issues at national and local scales, including business tax incentives (Reining in the Competition for Capital, 2007), minimum wage legislation, military industrial conversion (Arming the Future: a Defense Industry for the 20th Century, 1999; Dismantling the Cold War Economy, 1992; The Rise of the Gunbelt, 1991) high tech job growth (High Tech America 1985), energy boomtowns, and state/local public finance. Over the years, her op eds have been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and many regional dallies, and she has been a frequent radio and television commentator.
Parks as Multi-Use Destinations and Catalysts for Community DevelopmentPark Pride
Presentation from Park Pride's 2015 Parks and Greenspace Conference. The presenter is Cynthia Nikitin.
With the importance of parks growing in the public's consciousness, now is the time to question what distinguishes great parks. Project for Public Spaces has identified nine strategies that help parks achieve their full potential to become active, multi-use, accessible, inclusive, safe public spaces that enhance neighborhoods and catalyze local economic development, highlight community authenticity and support multiple users.
The Story Behind 17 Different Covers of JOKOWOWWaizly Darwin
In 2014, Marketeers (www.marketeers.com) in collaboration with Kreavi (www.kreavi.com) & Fabula (www.fabula.co.id) initiated a co-creation project for Marketeers "JOKOWOW" Cover Design.
This collectors issue has won multiple award in Indonesia and beyond. Check out this deck to know more about the project.
Promoting spatial diversity as a tool to improve neighborhoods livelihoodJimly Faraby
This document discusses promoting spatial diversity as a tool to improve livelihoods in neighborhoods through informality. It uses the case of Keparakan District in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The district has created spatial diversity through informal processes over time, resulting in a unique spatial pattern with high population density, mixed land uses, and internal connectivity. Economic activities are organized into four potential zones focused on art/culture, tourism, culinary arts, and handicrafts. The district has benefited from this spatial diversity by improving its attractiveness and livelihoods.
This document outlines an agenda for a workshop on inclusive community engagement. The workshop features several presenters from planning organizations who will discuss why inclusive engagement is important, how approaches need to change with the times, and stories of engagement efforts. Attendees will then break into small groups to discuss an assigned engagement scenario and report back. The goals are to emphasize that input leads to better plans, communities have a right to participate, and planners must stay alert to engagement opportunities while upholding principles of transparency and genuineness.
Designing for social sustainability, presentation to RTPI Scotland 7th Octobe...social_life_presentations
Nicola Bacon's presentation to RTPI Scotland's centenary conference in Glasgow in October 2014 on Social Life's work on social sustainability, how this can be understood, actioned and measured.
Laura Zucker - Public Art: Making Creative PlacesContract Cities
The document outlines the civic art policy and procedures for public art projects in Los Angeles County. It discusses how 1% of construction budgets over $500,000 are allocated to civic art. There are over 130 artworks in the county's collection. The civic art process involves establishing a project coordination committee made up of representatives from relevant county departments, supervisorial offices, cities, and community members. Artists are selected through a process that identifies project values and opportunities for artwork. The civic art program aims to create high quality, site-specific artworks that engage communities and enhance the built environment.
RV 2014: Equitable Development- TOD in a Distressed EconomyRail~Volution
Equitable Development: TOD in a Distressed Economy
Equitable development starts with a commitment to robust community engagement, continues with strategic public investments to "prime the pump," and ends with development that meets community needs and allows investors to make a buck or two. Learn how public and private partners can work together to lay the groundwork to finance and deliver TOD in the face of a distressed local development market. In Minneapolis: A community along a future BRT corridor plans for future investments in transportation, economic development, housing and placemaking. In Pittsburgh: A diverse community adjacent to a busway station attracts public and private investments for a successful project. In Phoenix, nonprofits working together to ready publicly-owned property for development and create a loan program to bring affordable and market rate residential mixed use to the light rail.
Moderator: Melinda Pollack, Vice President, Enterprise Community Partners, Denver, Colorado
Daniel Klocke, Downtown Phoenix CDC, Phoenix, Arizona
Patricia Fitzgerald, Economic and Community Development Division Manager, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ernie Hogan, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Council Member Brad Lander discussed participatory budgeting that has been implemented in New York City's 39th district. Participatory budgeting allows community members to directly decide how to spend part of a public budget through a democratic process. In the first year over 6,000 voters and 250 budget delegates were involved in the district's participatory budgeting process. It identified community project ideas and funding priorities through neighborhood assemblies and delegate meetings. While challenges remain, participatory budgeting has deepened civic engagement and trust in government by giving residents a direct say in budget decisions.
This document summarizes interviews with experienced practitioners on creating walkable communities. It discusses that communities should be engaged through inclusive processes to develop a shared vision and identify champions. It also stresses the importance of listening to communities and addressing their real concerns. Additionally, it notes that walkability requires changes to both projects and policies, such as implementing "gateway projects" to demonstrate walkable design, prioritizing pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and aligning rules and funding incentives to support walkable development. The overall message is that successful walkability requires addressing both the social and built environment aspects of a place.
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a cultural institution in San Francisco that was founded in 1993. YBCA uses exhibitions, performances, films and other programs to generate culture that moves people and supports social change. It believes that arts institutions have a responsibility to support social movements. Some of YBCA's programs include fellowships for creative citizens, youth arts education, and partnerships with community organizations. YBCA also hosts an annual summit that brings together 100 influential cultural figures to discuss questions shaping the future of culture.
Ubuntu is a location-based database that connects NGOs, individuals, and companies to share resources and plow back into social causes. It aims to make it easy for people to find credible organizations to volunteer with or donate to by providing user feedback on NGOs and channeling resources to where they are needed most.
This document summarizes a research project examining how public art incorporates the history of Glasgow's East End into regeneration initiatives. It outlines the research aims, which are to analyze how and why new buildings reference the area's social and industrial heritage through images and text. It also discusses how decisions are made around selecting and representing spatial narratives. The document then provides context around public art and placemaking from academic literature. It examines several case studies of regeneration projects in Glasgow and how they attempt to connect people to place through heritage and art.
CNU24 Open Innovation: Design For Good / Design For ImpactMallory B.E. Baches
From the Congress for the New Urbanism:
"Pretty designs are easy to sell, while impactful designs need more careful thought. These OI sessions are centered on the philosophies, data, and markets of good design. Learn how local concerns of jobs and safety can be addressed with thoughtful community design. Explore the Charter of the New Urbanism through the lens of social impact. And participate in a brief digital design workshop to activate abandoned spaces.
This panel is an exploration of the Charter of the New Urbanism through the lens of the Community Design movement by three designers, each reflecting on their practice and teaching experience in considering ways that the values of design equity, social impact, and inclusive processes are supported by the cornerstone beliefs of the Congress for the New Urbanism."
Presentation to workshop at Realdania Foundation on 13 March 2015, by Nicola Bacon.
The workshop discussed community dynamics, and how a social sustainability framework could help built environment professionals strengthen their impact on local communities. The aim was to inform Realdania's Boligliv i balance programme.
This document discusses the need for social innovation in urban planning and placemaking. It argues that existing development models often fail to create thriving communities because they do not put people at the heart of the process. True social innovation requires recognizing how local residents feel about their community, trying new collaborative approaches, and using creative tools to address social needs in innovative ways. The document provides examples of social innovation projects from the UK and Denmark that have helped engage communities and address issues like disadvantage through new solutions developed with local participation.
AUTONOMA - Rafi Segal - Architecture of Collective LivingAutonoma Conference
Technology, changing habits of living, emerging economies of sharing, have all contributed to new notions of community. Collectiveness re-appears not necessarily as a political ideology,
dictated top-down by the institution or state, but rather a voluntarily adapted sustainable - social principle, environmentally conscious and more so a means to recover a sense of belonging and human connection
within our global and technologically driven world.
My presentation will discuss two projects of contemporary collective forms of living – one set within a semi-rural (agro-urban) environment of a kibbutz in Israel and the other within the dense mid-town of NYC. Both cases combine pre-designed and self-organizing aspects within a single architectural-urban project, and reveal the role of design in envisioning alternative spatial relationships between the private and public, individual and collective space.
The National Trust wants urban residents to feel its work is relevant to their lives. It suggests getting to know cities authentically by involving passionate local bloggers, writers and photographers to reflect what people love about the city through stories that trigger emotions rather than just facts. The goal is to add value to people's lives in cities over time by connecting with them through content that resonates at a feeling level.
The document summarizes Jane Jacobs' ideas about urban planning and their influence on modern approaches. It discusses how her critique of mid-20th century urban renewal and suburban sprawl led to emerging responses like new urbanism, smart growth, and transit-oriented development that aim to create walkable, mixed-use, and diverse neighborhoods based on her placemaking principles. The document emphasizes that applying all of Jacobs' elements together is needed to achieve healthy, sustainable cities and communities.
Slides from a presentation to Arizona State University’s Barrett Honor College ‘Urban Experience’ orientation for freshman students. it was given at the ASU's Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) campus on August 16, 2010.
Presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) North America Conference in Winnipeg on the design assistance progress, it's adapted models, and how it applies to a variety of community settings.
Placemaking involves designing public spaces to serve the people and bring communities together through mixed uses, successful streets, open spaces, appropriate urban scale, movement frameworks, and a sense of place. It is about making spaces that people gravitate towards and that capture the soul of a neighborhood by creating local identity and embracing the people, buildings, events, and nature in an area. The goal is to take back the public realm and create character and meaning to make a space a living place for the community.
The Story Behind 17 Different Covers of JOKOWOWWaizly Darwin
In 2014, Marketeers (www.marketeers.com) in collaboration with Kreavi (www.kreavi.com) & Fabula (www.fabula.co.id) initiated a co-creation project for Marketeers "JOKOWOW" Cover Design.
This collectors issue has won multiple award in Indonesia and beyond. Check out this deck to know more about the project.
Promoting spatial diversity as a tool to improve neighborhoods livelihoodJimly Faraby
This document discusses promoting spatial diversity as a tool to improve livelihoods in neighborhoods through informality. It uses the case of Keparakan District in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The district has created spatial diversity through informal processes over time, resulting in a unique spatial pattern with high population density, mixed land uses, and internal connectivity. Economic activities are organized into four potential zones focused on art/culture, tourism, culinary arts, and handicrafts. The district has benefited from this spatial diversity by improving its attractiveness and livelihoods.
This document outlines an agenda for a workshop on inclusive community engagement. The workshop features several presenters from planning organizations who will discuss why inclusive engagement is important, how approaches need to change with the times, and stories of engagement efforts. Attendees will then break into small groups to discuss an assigned engagement scenario and report back. The goals are to emphasize that input leads to better plans, communities have a right to participate, and planners must stay alert to engagement opportunities while upholding principles of transparency and genuineness.
Designing for social sustainability, presentation to RTPI Scotland 7th Octobe...social_life_presentations
Nicola Bacon's presentation to RTPI Scotland's centenary conference in Glasgow in October 2014 on Social Life's work on social sustainability, how this can be understood, actioned and measured.
Laura Zucker - Public Art: Making Creative PlacesContract Cities
The document outlines the civic art policy and procedures for public art projects in Los Angeles County. It discusses how 1% of construction budgets over $500,000 are allocated to civic art. There are over 130 artworks in the county's collection. The civic art process involves establishing a project coordination committee made up of representatives from relevant county departments, supervisorial offices, cities, and community members. Artists are selected through a process that identifies project values and opportunities for artwork. The civic art program aims to create high quality, site-specific artworks that engage communities and enhance the built environment.
RV 2014: Equitable Development- TOD in a Distressed EconomyRail~Volution
Equitable Development: TOD in a Distressed Economy
Equitable development starts with a commitment to robust community engagement, continues with strategic public investments to "prime the pump," and ends with development that meets community needs and allows investors to make a buck or two. Learn how public and private partners can work together to lay the groundwork to finance and deliver TOD in the face of a distressed local development market. In Minneapolis: A community along a future BRT corridor plans for future investments in transportation, economic development, housing and placemaking. In Pittsburgh: A diverse community adjacent to a busway station attracts public and private investments for a successful project. In Phoenix, nonprofits working together to ready publicly-owned property for development and create a loan program to bring affordable and market rate residential mixed use to the light rail.
Moderator: Melinda Pollack, Vice President, Enterprise Community Partners, Denver, Colorado
Daniel Klocke, Downtown Phoenix CDC, Phoenix, Arizona
Patricia Fitzgerald, Economic and Community Development Division Manager, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ernie Hogan, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Council Member Brad Lander discussed participatory budgeting that has been implemented in New York City's 39th district. Participatory budgeting allows community members to directly decide how to spend part of a public budget through a democratic process. In the first year over 6,000 voters and 250 budget delegates were involved in the district's participatory budgeting process. It identified community project ideas and funding priorities through neighborhood assemblies and delegate meetings. While challenges remain, participatory budgeting has deepened civic engagement and trust in government by giving residents a direct say in budget decisions.
This document summarizes interviews with experienced practitioners on creating walkable communities. It discusses that communities should be engaged through inclusive processes to develop a shared vision and identify champions. It also stresses the importance of listening to communities and addressing their real concerns. Additionally, it notes that walkability requires changes to both projects and policies, such as implementing "gateway projects" to demonstrate walkable design, prioritizing pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and aligning rules and funding incentives to support walkable development. The overall message is that successful walkability requires addressing both the social and built environment aspects of a place.
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a cultural institution in San Francisco that was founded in 1993. YBCA uses exhibitions, performances, films and other programs to generate culture that moves people and supports social change. It believes that arts institutions have a responsibility to support social movements. Some of YBCA's programs include fellowships for creative citizens, youth arts education, and partnerships with community organizations. YBCA also hosts an annual summit that brings together 100 influential cultural figures to discuss questions shaping the future of culture.
Ubuntu is a location-based database that connects NGOs, individuals, and companies to share resources and plow back into social causes. It aims to make it easy for people to find credible organizations to volunteer with or donate to by providing user feedback on NGOs and channeling resources to where they are needed most.
This document summarizes a research project examining how public art incorporates the history of Glasgow's East End into regeneration initiatives. It outlines the research aims, which are to analyze how and why new buildings reference the area's social and industrial heritage through images and text. It also discusses how decisions are made around selecting and representing spatial narratives. The document then provides context around public art and placemaking from academic literature. It examines several case studies of regeneration projects in Glasgow and how they attempt to connect people to place through heritage and art.
CNU24 Open Innovation: Design For Good / Design For ImpactMallory B.E. Baches
From the Congress for the New Urbanism:
"Pretty designs are easy to sell, while impactful designs need more careful thought. These OI sessions are centered on the philosophies, data, and markets of good design. Learn how local concerns of jobs and safety can be addressed with thoughtful community design. Explore the Charter of the New Urbanism through the lens of social impact. And participate in a brief digital design workshop to activate abandoned spaces.
This panel is an exploration of the Charter of the New Urbanism through the lens of the Community Design movement by three designers, each reflecting on their practice and teaching experience in considering ways that the values of design equity, social impact, and inclusive processes are supported by the cornerstone beliefs of the Congress for the New Urbanism."
Presentation to workshop at Realdania Foundation on 13 March 2015, by Nicola Bacon.
The workshop discussed community dynamics, and how a social sustainability framework could help built environment professionals strengthen their impact on local communities. The aim was to inform Realdania's Boligliv i balance programme.
This document discusses the need for social innovation in urban planning and placemaking. It argues that existing development models often fail to create thriving communities because they do not put people at the heart of the process. True social innovation requires recognizing how local residents feel about their community, trying new collaborative approaches, and using creative tools to address social needs in innovative ways. The document provides examples of social innovation projects from the UK and Denmark that have helped engage communities and address issues like disadvantage through new solutions developed with local participation.
AUTONOMA - Rafi Segal - Architecture of Collective LivingAutonoma Conference
Technology, changing habits of living, emerging economies of sharing, have all contributed to new notions of community. Collectiveness re-appears not necessarily as a political ideology,
dictated top-down by the institution or state, but rather a voluntarily adapted sustainable - social principle, environmentally conscious and more so a means to recover a sense of belonging and human connection
within our global and technologically driven world.
My presentation will discuss two projects of contemporary collective forms of living – one set within a semi-rural (agro-urban) environment of a kibbutz in Israel and the other within the dense mid-town of NYC. Both cases combine pre-designed and self-organizing aspects within a single architectural-urban project, and reveal the role of design in envisioning alternative spatial relationships between the private and public, individual and collective space.
The National Trust wants urban residents to feel its work is relevant to their lives. It suggests getting to know cities authentically by involving passionate local bloggers, writers and photographers to reflect what people love about the city through stories that trigger emotions rather than just facts. The goal is to add value to people's lives in cities over time by connecting with them through content that resonates at a feeling level.
The document summarizes Jane Jacobs' ideas about urban planning and their influence on modern approaches. It discusses how her critique of mid-20th century urban renewal and suburban sprawl led to emerging responses like new urbanism, smart growth, and transit-oriented development that aim to create walkable, mixed-use, and diverse neighborhoods based on her placemaking principles. The document emphasizes that applying all of Jacobs' elements together is needed to achieve healthy, sustainable cities and communities.
Slides from a presentation to Arizona State University’s Barrett Honor College ‘Urban Experience’ orientation for freshman students. it was given at the ASU's Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) campus on August 16, 2010.
Presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) North America Conference in Winnipeg on the design assistance progress, it's adapted models, and how it applies to a variety of community settings.
Placemaking involves designing public spaces to serve the people and bring communities together through mixed uses, successful streets, open spaces, appropriate urban scale, movement frameworks, and a sense of place. It is about making spaces that people gravitate towards and that capture the soul of a neighborhood by creating local identity and embracing the people, buildings, events, and nature in an area. The goal is to take back the public realm and create character and meaning to make a space a living place for the community.
An environmental NGO in Finland called Dodo works on urban environmental issues. It was established in 1995 and takes a progressive approach by promoting global thinking, citizen-based action, and testing solutions with permission to fail. Dodo focuses on issues from an urban perspective and involves people of all backgrounds through positive, non-expert events and workshops. Its activities include an annual urban sustainability festival called Megapolis, urban planning initiatives, urban farming projects, and development programs in Africa addressing desertification, forest conservation, and sustainable livelihoods.
This document provides an overview of theories and ideas that have shaped cities from a planner's perspective. It begins with an introduction on the interdisciplinary nature of planning and then divides the rest of the document into sections on historic planning theory, modern planning ideas, transportation demand theory, and further resources. Some of the key theories and ideas discussed include Jane Jacobs' approach to cities as ecosystems, Kevin Lynch's theory of legibility and imageability, the City Beautiful movement, regional planning, urban renewal, and transportation planning concepts.
Jane's Walk Vienna: Embracing fun, curiosity and diversity on more than 100 V...Andreas Lindinger
This document summarizes the history and growth of Jane's Walk Vienna over the past 6 years. It began in 2014 with 4 walks and has grown significantly to over 100 walks with around 2,800 total participants. The document discusses strategies for finding walk leaders, building partnerships, promotion, and addressing challenges to continue growing the event and engaging more of the Vienna community.
Mind your language - concepts of placemakingJulian Dobson
This presentation is for the opening workshop at the Regeneration Academy, Bradford. It examines some of the concepts of 'place' and of action to improve places, and starts to explain the often confusing terminology.
Placemaking aims to transform neighborhoods from places people want to leave into places they never want to leave. It fosters community identity and spirit through public spaces, cultural activities, and social interaction. Placemaking can add value by increasing foot traffic, creating unique identities, and building community goodwill. Case studies demonstrate using art, neighborhood revitalization, and tactical urbanism to activate spaces. Placemaking requires long-term strategic civic engagement, vision planning, and programming to sustain lively public destinations.
The document summarizes the concepts and approaches of urban planning in Curitiba, Brazil. It describes how Curitiba prioritized people-focused design and public transportation over automobile-centric planning. The mayor redesigned the city to be more pedestrian-friendly and implemented an innovative bus rapid transit system. It also discusses Curitiba's social programs helping street children and implementing an innovative garbage collection-for-food program with local farmers. The document argues Curitiba provides an example of more sustainable and equitable urban planning compared to typical automobile-focused redevelopment in many cities.
Project for Public Spaces - Streets as Placesmetroplanning
Fred Kent of Project for Public Spaces (pps.org) made this presentation on streets as places in Chicago on March 15, 2007. Contact PPS to invite him to speak in your city.
A Finnish environmental NGO working in urban environments - example of Dodo (...Titta Lassila
A Finnish environmental NGO working in urban environments - example of Dodo. Ecology and management of urban green space, Helsinki Summer School, University of Helsinki 2014.
A presentation that looks to the Renaissance as a model for fostering community growth by encouraging innovation, creativity and collaboration, which in turn creates empowered citizens who are likely to contribute to the community.
The document discusses the role of designers in city planning and placemaking. It notes that while planned communities have existed for over 200 years, there is still much to learn about what truly makes communities work. Intervention is sometimes needed when places decline, but too much can stifle organic growth. The ideal is putting people at the heart of placemaking by promoting social relationships, shared spaces and activities, and a sense of identity and belonging. Well-designed public spaces and buildings can encourage mixing and strengthen social bonds in a community.
Sp3 Evanston Plan 2030 presentation to evanston city council – june 17cityofevanston
This document summarizes a presentation made to the Evanston City Council about updating the city's comprehensive plan. Key points include:
- The new plan will focus on addressing major issues and expected changes facing Evanston, like demographic shifts and economic trends.
- Chapter topics will explore maintaining jobs, differing housing preferences of younger generations, and supporting economic development.
- Community engagement and outreach will take place throughout 2013 and 2014 to gather input and feedback on draft plan sections and recommendations.
- The process aims to produce a comprehensive plan that leads to an improved community and reflects the choices and priorities of Evanston residents.
Zoning: Evolutionary or Revolutionary (Part 2)Paul Schumann
The document discusses design-based zoning, also known as new urbanism or form-based coding, which focuses on the physical form of development rather than land use. It originated from garden city and new urbanist movements to promote walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods. Key aspects include an emphasis on design over use, intensive public charrettes, and strict standards for building placement, streetscapes, and public spaces to generate dense, compact, mixed-use development. The document then discusses critics of the approach and argues for a hybrid model incorporating use, impact, and design considerations.
Place matters for health! A growing body of research over the last several decades has shown the connections between place and health. From obesity and chronic disease to depression, social isolation, or increased exposure to environmental toxins and pollutants, a person’s zip code can be a more reliable determinant of health than their genetic code.
In 2016, Project for Public Spaces compiled a report of peer-reviewed research that found key factors linking pubic spaces and peoples’ health. And public spaces are more than just parks and plazas – our streets represent the largest area of public space a community has!
This webinar will introduce participants to the placemaking process, the research behind the findings linking place and health, and how to envision streets as places – not just their function in transporting people and goods, but the vital role they play in animating the social and economic life of communities.
Complete Streets and Aging - Karen Alexandernjbikeped
The document discusses how complete streets and aging in place initiatives overlap and support each other. It defines complete streets as being designed for safe access for all users, including older adults, and notes how aging affects mobility with changes like reduced vision and flexibility. Both complete streets and aging in place aim to promote inclusion, participation, and independence by ensuring safe and accessible transportation options that allow people to stay in their communities as they age. The document provides examples of initiatives and policies towns have implemented that support both complete streets and aging well.
Presentation shown at the second public meeting on May 7, 2015 for the South Branch Library, part of the Cleveland Public Library's Community Vision Plan.
For more information, please visit: www.cpl150.org
Merhav overview - The Movement for Israeli UrbanismNachman Shelef
The Movement for Israeli Urbanism
Improving affordable access to opportunities by - Creating sustainable and humane cities and communities in Israel
We, the members of the Movement for Israeli Urbanism, strive to improve the quality of urban life in Israel and actively promote the development of a sustainable and humane urban environment in Israel.
We founded MIU in order to transform the quality of urban life in Israel by applying:
People-oriented planning that prevents deterioration and atrophy of cities
Sustainable local development that enhances opportunities
Democratic urban planning processes
Similar to Orillia's 6th Annual Jane's Walk 31 May 2017 (20)
This document discusses different types of planning and considerations for choosing a planner. It outlines non-planning, un-planning, rational and continuously adaptive models of planning. Factors to consider in choosing a planner include their skills, reputation, communication style and compatibility. Complexity is the most important predictor of planning costs, and community engagement is an important part of the planning process. The document provides guidance on determining budget and scope for a planning project.
The document summarizes Jane Jacob's view on the importance of walking and outlines the key elements of land-use planning such as protecting the landscape, creating streetscapes, and ensuring neighborhoods are walkable with a mix of uses. It discusses biblical references to caring for places and people and encourages imagining and drawing neighborhood designs that incorporate these planning principles.
This document discusses Indigenous perspectives on planning in Toronto:
- Toronto has been known by different names in Indigenous languages like Mnjikaning (Ojibway), Tkaronto (Mohawk), and Lac de Taronto (French), meaning "where there are trees standing in the water."
- Several First Nations have traditional territory that includes present-day Toronto, including Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River, and others.
- The document presents seven principles for Indigenous planning: friendship, sharing land, respect for difference, acceptance of similarity, dignity of uniqueness, land as kin, and patience.
The document outlines a 12-step planning cycle for communities. It discusses the key phases of planning: decision, research, implementation, and management. Each phase contains 3-4 numbered steps to guide the planning process, from creating a vision and goals to monitoring outcomes. The document concludes by asking meeting attendees to discuss what steps their own community has taken in the planning process and who was responsible for those steps.
Planning Professionals: Land Use in First NationsDavid J. Stinson
The document discusses factors to consider when evaluating plans and planners for land management. It outlines different planning models, styles, firms, individual planners, and the planning cycle. The goal is to help choose the plan and planner that best meets the needs of the community.
Planning 101 - Land Use in First Nations CommunitiesDavid J. Stinson
The document summarizes a meeting of the Land Use Planning Pilot Initiative held on March 7, 2012. The meeting focused on community land use planning and discussed principles of community development, strategic thinking, conservation planning, smart growth, local economic development, and social determinants of health. It outlined targets for community engagement, long-term vision, natural environment, neighborhoods, livelihoods, well-being, and wisdom. The meeting also presented a 12-step process for community land use planning that includes vision creation, assembling a team, goal establishment, scoping the project, needs assessment, designing alternatives, feasibility assessment, policy selection, pilot projects, solution adoption, program administration, and outcome monitoring.
The document discusses integrating environmental planning and community development. It presents the perspectives of Chief Sealth and Patrick Geddes, who both saw planning as protecting the environment, people, and livelihoods. The document then outlines a planning framework that involves mapping areas for open space, growth, and settlements like hamlets and villages. It also involves assigning zones from natural to urban. The framework is demonstrated through a case study of the Moose Deer Point First Nation, which is undertaking various economic development and land use initiatives through expansion of its reserve lands and a sustainability plan.
The document discusses ecological footprints and how they measure humanity's demand on the planet's resources. It finds that the global footprint exceeds the Earth's biocapacity by over 60%. Individual countries' footprints vary widely, with some over 4 times the fair share per person. A shifting climate is exacerbated by carbon emissions and agricultural land use. Urgent action is needed to avoid catastrophic climate impacts according to several experts, yet there is still chance to transition to a sustainable future through integrated ecological solutions and a shared sense of global responsibility.
This document summarizes principles and frameworks for Indigenous consultation and participation in planning. It includes:
1. Seven principles for Indigenous planning including friendship, sharing land, and respecting differences.
2. An overview of the Crown's duty to consult and accommodate Indigenous groups when actions may impact rights and titles.
3. A participation ladder framework showing different levels of participation from non-participation to full partnership.
4. Examples of Indigenous groups' interests in official plans around archaeology, natural areas, climate change, and protecting traditional lands, resources, and cultural practices.
5. Further links on Indigenous planning, the duty to consult, and the role of planning in truth and reconciliation.
Presentation by Rebecca Sachs and Joshua Varcie, analysts in CBO’s Health Analysis Division, at the 13th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists.
The Power of Community Newsletters: A Case Study from Wolverton and Greenleys...Scribe
YOU WILL DISCOVER:
The engaging history and evolution of Wolverton and Greenleys Town Council's newsletter
Strategies for producing a successful community newsletter and generating income through advertising
The decision-making process behind moving newsletter design from in-house to outsourcing and its impacts
Dive into the success story of Wolverton and Greenleys Town Council's newsletter in this insightful webinar. Hear from Mandy Shipp and Jemma English about the newsletter's journey from its inception to becoming a vital part of their community's communication, including its history, production process, and revenue generation through advertising. Discover the reasons behind outsourcing its design and the benefits this brought. Ideal for anyone involved in community engagement or interested in starting their own newsletter.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Bharat Mata - History of Indian culture.pdfBharat Mata
Bharat Mata Channel is an initiative towards keeping the culture of this country alive. Our effort is to spread the knowledge of Indian history, culture, religion and Vedas to the masses.
Indira awas yojana housing scheme renamed as PMAYnarinav14
Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) played a significant role in addressing rural housing needs in India. It emerged as a comprehensive program for affordable housing solutions in rural areas, predating the government’s broader focus on mass housing initiatives.
1. Orillia’s 6th Annual Jane Jacobs Walk
31 May 2017
• “No one can find what will work for our cities by
looking at … suburban garden cities,
manipulating scale models, or inventing dream
cities. You’ve got to get out and walk.”
- Jane Jacobs, Downtown is for People, 1957.
14. Integration
• ALL the above elements must be used
together to achieve a healthy human
habitat
15. How does Planning matter?
When done poorly:
destroy countryside
produce sub-urban sprawl
When done well:
preserve the countryside
build the city
Does Creating Place matter?