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- 1. placemaking & the politics of planning City Regions Studies Center @jen_keesmaat January 22, 2013
- 2. • Why making places matters (this isn’t a frivolous activity) • What’s at stake (who cares)? map • How we get there: building deep understandings • Critical success factors (stuff that can trip you up)
- 3. why making places matters
- 5. DENTIST HAIR DRESSER SCHOOL DOCTOR SCHOOL DRY CLEANERS
- 6. St George St, University of TO
- 8. great places, are designed for all… • children • youth • young professionals • families • active adults • retirees • seniors
- 12. N.Y. City
- 15. Vancouver, Dr Peter HIV Centre
- 18. Culture Centre – Nuuk, Greenland Culture Centre – Hong Kong Culture Centre – Rørvik, Norway Culture Centre – Tjibaou, New Caledonia
- 19. Chicago
- 21. • Housing Choice • Shopping Choice • Movement Choice • Economic Prosperity • Culture and Entertainment • Services and Amenities • Walkability • Innovation • Longevity • Inclusiveness
- 22. • Pedestrian-oriented environments that are car supportive: choice • A fine grain mix of uses and a variety of uses within walking distances qualities of • A high quality public realm including streets, public spaces and architecture successful • A strong civic purpose and presence places • Critical density of residents and activity to ensure a viable economy and vibrant street life in all hours and seasons • A unique personality and leveraging heritage • Congestion and parking shortages are signs of success • Sensitive to mitigating environmental impacts of human behavior
- 23. what it is not…..
- 25. what’s at stake (five things)
- 26. 1 we’re not as rich as we thought we were
- 28. maintenance = the long view $ X time = value operating costs capital investment time
- 29. pla ce ma ki n gg en er a te s va l ue /re sil i en ce
- 30. 2 demographics are changing…whether our cities change or not
- 31. 3 the new economy will leave us behind
- 32. 4 the race for the competitive edge is intensifying….
- 33. Map 2 Location of Previous Residence In Toronto 10% 6% 3% 33% 48% Downtown 5-km area surrounding Downtown
- 34. These individuals are choosing quicker commute times, proximity to amenities, workplaces and transit, locating in mixed-use communities. TD Economics, A Return to the Core, January 22, 2013
- 35. 5 the legacies we are leaving our children could be….frightening
- 41. Thousands of Ideas One Vision
- 42. Mississauga Public Engagement Overview 2007 DIALOG (Office for Urbanism) was retained a conversation with thousands of Mississaugans, to shape and influence the City’s new Strategic Plan ` Our Future Mississauga was the largest and most successful engagement exercise in the City of Mississauga’s history 100,000 people participated in some aspect of the process
- 43. Mississauga Community Leader Interviews 70+ community leaders attended stakeholder interviews
- 44. Mississauga Community Leader Interviews a Community Advisory Group (CAG) was recruited from community representatives, to be involved in all key moments throughout the process (members had to commit, in advance, to their availability and participation).
- 45. Mississauga Speaker Series Speaker Series designed to inspire and provoke Mississaugans to ‘think big’ about the future of their city provided a “fresh eyes”
- 46. Mississauga Speaker Series 3,000 participants
- 47. Mississauga Speaker Series Ken Greenberg and Jan GehlStephen Lewis and Glen Murray Justin Trudeau and Larry Beasley The Speaker Series involved 8 guest speakers, over four evenings Dr. Roberta Bondar and Tim Jones
- 49. Mississauga Speaker Series – Fresh Eyes Tours Fresh Eyes Tours allowed Speakers to learn first-hand about Mississauga… …also provided opportunities for City Staff and Leadership to engage with Guest Speakers.
- 50. Mississauga Lunch & Learn Series Lunch & Learn attended by the Mayor, Members of Council, and City staff. An opportunity for City leadership to engage Speakers in a more focused and intimate conversation
- 51. Mississauga Big Ideas Workshop Workshop (1 of 2) to engage the Strategic Advisory Group, Community Advisory Group, Mayor, Councillors, and Commissioners. to test and refine developing Conversation outcomes (Drivers and Pillars)
- 52. Mississauga Visioning Symposium 500 participants 2 days • capacity building presentations • interactive panels • workshops (conversation cafés) • music • and more…
- 53. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Event Structure
- 54. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Opening Presentations
- 55. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Interactive Panels
- 56. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Interactive Panels
- 57. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Interactive Panels
- 58. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Conversation Cafés
- 59. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Conversation Cafés
- 60. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Conversation Cafés
- 61. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Conversation Cafés
- 62. Mississauga Closing Presentations
- 63. Mississauga Closing Ceremonies – Honour Roll
- 64. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Staff Participation: Café Hosts
- 65. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Staff Participation: Café Hosts
- 66. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Staff Participation: Café Hosts
- 67. Mississauga Visioning Symposium – Staff Participation: Café Hosts
- 68. Mississauga Making it Real Workshop Workshop (2 of 2) transition from: a discussion of directions to one of implementation and actions
- 69. Mississauga Lemonade Stand
- 70. Mississauga Community Meetings 100 + community meetings and presentations across the city – engaged resident associations, schools, businesses, social groups, and cultural groups
- 71. Mississauga Puzzle Pieces 6,700 + ideas generated through puzzle pieces 1,800 from schools
- 72. Mississauga Rogers Television Partnership a three-part series: Our Future Mississauga – Be Part of the Conversation 170,000 Rogers subscribers in Mississauga aired on 15 dates
- 73. Mississauga Website 3,000 hits per day 3 areas: inspire, inform, and interact included: •surveys •polls •feedback forms •electronic puzzle pieces
- 74. Mississauga Consolidating Outcomes: Our Future Mississauga Consultation Elements Stakeholder Interviews Community Advisory Group Strategic Advisory Group Puzzle Pieces The Lemonade Stand Community Meetings Youth Engagement Mississauga Staff Engagement Drivers for Website change Speaker Series Rogers Television Show Big Ideas Workshop Visioning Symposium Symposium Survey results
- 75. Mississauga Consolidating Outcomes: Public Public Engagement Engagement Big Ideas Big Ideas Workshop Workshop Symposium Symposium Making it Real Making it Real Workshop Workshop The The Strategic Plan Strategic Plan Drivers Pillars Goals Measures and The The Indicators Implementation Implementation Targets Plan Plan Actions Champions
- 76. Mississauga Consolidating Outcomes: 1 A City of Hidden Jewels 2 Tremendous Opportunities 3 An Engaged and Energized Population 4 A New Financial Reality 5 Density and Pedestrian-Oriented Places ideas and 6 Place-Making comments were 7 Affordability synthesized as: 8 More Living Options 9 Innovative Businesses 10 Land Use and Mobility “18 Drivers 11 Post-Secondary Educational Opportunities for Change” 12 Modern Day ‘Port’ for Immigration 13 Expressions of Diversity 14 Unveiling the Waterfront 15 Growth in the Greater Golden Horseshoe 16 Capitalizing on our Strategic Location 17 Health and the Environment 18 Evolution of the City Centre
- 77. Mississauga Consolidating Outcomes: 1 MOVE developing a transit oriented city Drivers were, in BELONG ensuring ideas and comments were turn, tested, refined, and 2 youth, older adults and new immigrants thrive synthesized as: distilled into: “18 Drivers 5 Strategic 3 CONNECT completing our neighbourhoods for Change” Pillars for PROSPER cultivating Change 4 creative and innovative businesses 5 GREEN living green
- 78. Mississauga Consolidating Outcomes: Drivers were, in ideas and turn, tested, These Pillars comments were refined, and provided the synthesized as: distilled into: foundation for the City’s new: “18 Drivers 5 Strategic for Change” Pillars for Strategic Plan Change
- 79. Mississauga Consolidating Outcomes: These Pillars provided the foundation for the City’s new: Strategic Plan
- 80. Transit oriented development Extended tree canopy drive + transit Active uses at park grade level Active public realm Wider Sidewalks walk cycle Enhanced Crosswalks
- 81. Critical mass of people and activities Consistent building podium (street-wall) Distinct streetscaping Buildings face the street with active uses at grade level Pedestrian crossings at regular intervals Integrated transit system
- 82. Critical success factors (as you seek to build deep understandings)
- 83. 1 sustain the dialogue
- 85. 2 use tools that embrace a myriad of constituencies
- 87. How will we promote the campaign? FEELING CONGESTED CAMPAIGN COMPONENTS FEELING CONGESTED? Digital Incentives Social Advertising PR Microsite - TTC Pass - Daily Facts & - Digital Boards - Op Ed -Learn For Life Info graphics - Print Ads - Interviews/stories: -Engage - Bixi Credits - Star - FC Tweet Chat - Banner Ads -Find - Metro Morning - Free Parking - FC Daily Q - Radio -Share - Breakfast TV -Win - AutoShare - Share Ur - Signage - Omni -Download - Car2Go Commute - Global TV - NewsTalk 1010
- 88. 3 become communications savvy
- 89. Toronto is your city. Toronto is my city. Let’s build it together.
- 90. ownyourcity.ca
- 91. 4 embrace complexity als so y du cie ivi ind t environme nt
- 92. 5 unlikely, and likely, bedfellows are essential
- 94. 6 identify + nurture champions
- 95. brief summit
- 96. 7 always consider the region
- 97. 8 plan for the neighbourhood
- 98. consider the opportunity and amenity mid-rise neighbourhoods BMI
- 99. the places we create sustain us
- 100. ENSURING THE REVITALIZATION STARTS STRATEGY INSTITUTE : TRANSFORMING & REVITALIZING DOWNTOWN SUMMIT Office for Urbanism June | 2 | 2009
Editor's Notes
- I yet I come to you today with a sense of urgency: and it is this. I want to suggest that we, as urbanists, are moving too slowly. So much damage has been done to the possibility of city life – of a public life, that we share in common – by our misplaced planning efforts of the past 20 years. But, you might protest, as urbanists we have been constrained by the theories and trends of planning practise. Why blame urbanists, for the very un-urban failings of planning, politics, and governments over the past 20 years. After all, we see and have seen the problem – we’ve been the minority, the official opposition, unable to cultivate urbanism on a grand scale in mid-sized Canadian cities (which for all the ways they are remarkable, are more remarkable for how similar, how status quo their planning frameworks have been). I am proposing here that our interventions, on the whole, have been too small, too unambitious – a public square here, a little bit of infill there . Importance of neighborhoods and mainstreets – walkable places. This is where I need to end. Our failings have been at scale of the city. We’ve failed to link in a meaningful way our transportation planning and our land use planning – and now its time to reinvent ourselves. I believe this is possible - this reinvention of place. ADD EXAMPLES OF HOW EDMONTON IS DOING THIS. But not maybe for the reasons you would expect, and the primary tool, that I am going to talk about today, may also come as a bit of a surprize. I am going to focus the bulk of this presentation on one idea, and it is this: at the core of our planning practice, our politics, our city building – our choices – must be a commitment to BUILDING DEEP UNDERSTANDINGS of the ways the places we create, in turn, sustain us, and are essential to our future. How is it that our cities sustain us? Four parts to this click
- Our goal, when we are making places, is really to make “complete communitie”s are places where people of all ages & abilities can live, shop, learn, work and play, undertaking most of these activities within walking distance or a short transit ride of home. So lets begin with a little assessment: How many people in this room shop – for groceries – on foot? How many people in this room have the luxury of NOT owning a car? Can you do that in Edmonton? We know that around the world, in places where this option is viable, including in downtown TO, the new status symbol, the new expression of an urban sensitivity – of valuing experiences over stuff – is reflected in people choosing not to own a car. How many people in this room can walk to work? You’ll notice that I when I talk about placemaking, I talk a lot about movemebent – because how we move often defines our places.
- Places making matters b/c walking is the most sustainably form of transportation with the most ancillary benefits (health, community) Walkscore demonstrates this is becoming more and more valued
- My story - why I live where I do. The choice I made. Placemaking is really about providing choices, providing another way to live that is more sustainable.
- One example, of a street that is a place, and what that looks like.
- But in both of these examples, streets are treated as a key element of the open space system – places for people, for movement, as opposed to primarily places for cars Placemaking matters, because when we design our streets to be places, they turn out differently – their design, their use, their amenity, their sustainability – is transformed when we use the objective of place as a key driver for city building.
- This matters because places are, at their core, for people. It is cities that accommodate us in various stages of our lives, as our needs change…..
- Placemaking matters because when we are intentional about design, and beauty, we can be intentional about our efforts to minimize our environmental footprint. By being intentional about where growth will go, we are intentional about where growth will not go.
- Shown another way, these proximities, these urban areas, allow us to protect the waterways and greefields that sustain us as well. You see here the Greenbelt and Growth Plan that are driving the urban density you see in Toronto today. To give you an example, the share of starts in the regions outside of Toronto is shifting to apartment structures – 54% in 2009 compared with 24% 10 years ago This plan, aptly, is called Places to Grow
- When we focus on placemaking, we are able to plan our lives in such a way as to move about – if we so choose – on foot, or on a bike. This results in a fundamentally different kind of allocation of land, investment, and experience of every day life.
- It also cultivates different kinds of spaces and places that allow for innovation and entrepreneurialism to exist. We know that innovation – the creation and adoption of new products, services, processes and buisnesses models, drives economic development, income, and growth – and the competitiveness of places, especially high cost, developed places. In a knowledge based economy, innovation needs places to materialize. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, “Countries need to harness innovation and entrepreneurship to boost growth and employment, for innovation tis the key to a sustainable rise in living standards.” It is the synergies derived from well planned places that attract talent, and inspire it to thrive.
- Places, and placemaking, seeks to integrate a range of housing types – ownership, rental – for a diversity of family types…with every day life. As opposed to single use communities, placemaking.. click
- Recognizes the importance of compact forms of living that support neighbourhood amenity and the viability of high quality public transit. click
- Part of what placemaking allows, or this completeness of communities allows, is the critical mass of services and amenities to serve those in need. And the opportunity to use the “value” of a place to……. click
- Ensure a high quality of life for all. You see here a place where newcomers can find a home, a neighbhourhood and good work, and transition into Canadian life. This image you see here is of the Regent Park redevelopment, a best practice in community revitalization. This mixed use, mixed income community for 12, 500 – with state of the art community facilities, will be built out over 15 years. Because, after all….
- Great places are where we are learning to celebrate our differences, and live in peace.
- They are also places of beauty, and expressions of our culture, click
- And, if planned right, provide opportunities for culture to be a part of every day life through public art and shared public spaces….
- This diversity and intensity is an essential criterion for creativity and the generation of new knowledge.
- Why placemaking matters….
- Placemaking is not this – one use, one way to move, not prosperous, or innovative, or inspiring But herein lies our hope – these kinds of corridors, can become places – and I am going to talk about how we get there, but first: click
- Or put another way, I am going to walk through five drivers for change….
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- It turns out, this is costly form of development that has been heavily subsidized by both present and future governments. In Perverse Cities, Pamala Blais argues that as a result of crude public policies, a wide range of urban goods and services are subject to inaccurate pricing, which results in perverse subsidies – and incentives that promote sprawl while discouraging more efficient urban forms….despite what we say we want.
- Who is enjoying this street? Why benefits? And at what cost?
- Our family size is shrinking, we are living longer, more people are choosing to live alone… by 2031, 1 in 4 Canadians will be foreign born. We are more urban, more educated than a generation ago, but there is considerable evidence that our children will not as readily enjoy the quality of life that we have enjoyed. Echo boom generation – those today between 39-25, are a highly desired cohort…and according to a TD study released a few days ago, they are choosing urban places – specifically downtown TO So the risk is that…
- Urban, walkable places have resilience in downturns, and retain either value. A knowledge based economy is based on places. If we don’t change, we will be left behind. And the new ecomomy – I diverse, knowledge and innovation based economy – is essential to resiliency – to managing the boom and bust of a one company town
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- regardless of their housing choice – older or newer units – new single person or childless couple households are moving downtown - As a group we are all relatively well-housed, and as we age our changing housing preferences could have a significant influence on the city’s built form - Already 34% of us live in mid-rise or high-rise buildings. Toronto is Canada’s destination more than 50,000 new immigrants arrive in the GTA with many of them choosing to locate in the City of Toronto
- 19 – 39 year olds are the largest demographic in canada Almost 200,000 people Growth by 1/3 in past five years
- But it doesn’t have to be this way. I would like to propose a way forward… that is built upon something that is entirely within our control, and its this…. Click
- We also have a shared interest in being realistic about the implications of climate change on our infrastructure. When I saw this image – from NYC, just a few months ago – my heart sank. All I could think about was the damage, the cost, the 10 steps backwards this would represent for municipal infrastucture development.
- Or, we could leave another legacy.
- Its about policy, folks. But that is only half of the equation. Its much more complicated than that, although we need policy too.
- This is a transition point in my presentation. This is where the conversation becomes hopeful again. And it becomes hopeful because there are tools that we can employ to overcome the politics of place making, and I am going to walk you through an example that I believe demonstrates the possibilities that emerge when we build deep understandings. Another way of saying this would be to talk about building constituencies for urbanism. click
- belief and understanding….this is at the heart of politics and planning The sad truth is that many of urban planning and design moves that are essential to great placemaking – like the importance of spectacular public realm for great urbanism to flourish, or the need to plan walkable places with high densities if we wish to make public transit viable – are not new, innovative, or risky. And yet, so often, municipal leaders + consumers lack belief? Three tools to cultivate belief: - in depth explorations of best practises from elsewhere To cultivate understanding: need good data, - data and evidence: Perverse Cities, The High Cost of Free Parking, The Wisdom of Crowds But also need good processes to engage – platforms for using this data in meaningful conversations
- This is a more comprehensive description of all of the elements, all of the different mechanisms, that were tailored to allow people to participate on a variety of scales, and in a whole variety of ways, in the Our Future Mississauga Process. All of the input was received was reflected in the Drivers for Change. The public engagement process resulted in 18 Drivers for change. 1 A City of Hidden Jewels 2 Tremendous Opportunities 3 An Engaged and Energized Population 4 A New Financial Reality 5 Density and Pedestrian-Oriented Places 6 Place-Making 7 Affordability 8 More Living Options 9 Innovative Businesses 10 Land Use and Mobility 11 Post-Secondary Educational Opportunities 12 Modern Day ‘Port’ for Immigration 13 Expressions of Diversity 14 Unveiling the Waterfront 15 Growth in the Greater Golden Horseshoe 16 Capitalizing on our Strategic Location 17 Health and the Environment 18 Evolution of the City Centre
- Back to an overview again, I just want to point out a few things…you will notice the drivers emerge from….the strategic plan contains… the implementation plan contains…. Just a side note that we created this structure b/c we were getting so much feedback and some of it was actions, some were goals, and we realized that if we wanted to understand the feedback that we were receiving from people, that it was necessary to begin to order it in a meaningful way. and as such the structure for the strat plan emerged….
- Tell the story of road widings at approval – the budget process, approval of the planb
- Each of these plans are currently being implemented, and what I would like to do today is to flag some of the key considerations for implementation that I believe have been pivotal to implementation success. You can also call this….
- This conversation never goes away! click
- Its not enough, to consult now and then. If we truly seek to meaningfully inject our planning and our politics with an evidence based conversation that rises above the rhetoric and expediency of short term decision making, then need to be sustained and continuing. The ideas which underpin great urbanism, need to become a part transit planning, the budgetary process – these ideas should permeate at the Chamber of Commerce, they should be shared and espoused with your business leaders. But to get there, you are going to need to… click
- We are launching a consultation campaign in TO in the next couple of weeks, and….
- Our objective has been to make sure there is something for everyone. Ads on highway signs and ads in the subway Driving people to public meetings and to our online tool - bringing in new audiences through the use of incentives Really, what this is about is…..click
- I don’t want to imply that I am - this is a continual learning process for me – but…. click
- But we have to try. We need to like our great ideas about urbanism and place making to the tools and methods and that might just begin… click
- To build the conversation in new ways. I launched a blog – to try and reach out beyond the media…. Needed a tool to communicate directly with people, and to allow them to communicate directly with me. I am not sure if it works yet…but I am committed to figuring out what does work. In part, because… click
- Story of Portlands - we planned it worked Mississaugua – Lakeview, Hurontario, Sheridan College…all pieces of a puzzel that builds a great place.
- Civic Action, Metrolinx, Board of Trade…
- political, professional, the Board of Trade, advocates - latch on to anyone who “gets it” and invite them in to play a role in advocating within the sector where they have influence. Given that initiatives will be unfolding simutaneously, you will need many champions. click
- objective is to bring big thinkers to the table on essential issues: Industry (architects, landscape architects) Big thinkers (Anne Golden) Influencers (“Spacing magazine types”) Developers Broaden the table of city building champions
- What is the number one mistake of downtown planning today? Its regional and city wide growth.
- The neighbourhood is the place of everyday life – if we plan it to be so. click
- MID Rise City Standardize “Best Practices” from Avenue Studies to-date
- we need great places, but, they also need…us