Are we creating cities for people - or just for professionals who think they know what people want? These slides look at how we can start developing an urbanism for everyone.

1. Urbanism for everyone [?]
Julian Dobson, director, Urban Pollinators

2. BEYOND PLACE BRANDING
WHO IS URBAN DESIGN FOR?

3. ‘THE SOUL OF THE CITY -
THE STRENGTH WHICH
MAKES IT BREATHE,
EXIST AND PROGRESS -
RESIDES IN EACH ONE
OF ITS CITIZENS’
Jaime Lerner,
mayor of Curitiba

4. ‘THE REASON I’VE GOT A
VISION IS THAT I DON’T
HAVE ANYTHING ELSE...
IF YOU VISITED THE
TOWN CENTRE TODAY
YOU’D COME AWAY
THINKING IT WAS AWFUL’
Council leader, north Kent

5. ‘WITHOUT A VISION, THE
PEOPLE PERISH’
But without the people, what
value is the vision?

6. PLACES OF DISCOVERY AND OPPORTUNITY
FROM THE ELDERS AT THE CITY GATE TO URBAN EXPLORERS

7. ‘TOWN CENTRES THAT ARE FIT
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY NEED
TO BE MULTIFUNCTIONAL
SOCIAL CENTRES, NOT
SIMPLY COMPETITORS FOR
STRETCHED CONSUMERS’
The 21st Century Agora: a
new and better vision for
town centres

8. HOW CAN WE BECOME
FLANEURS IN OUR OWN
TOWNS?
‘The spectator is a prince
who everywhere rejoices in
his incognito’
Charles Baudelaire

9. PLACEMAKING AND EVERYDAY LIFE
THE VALUE OF THE UNFINISHED

10. ‘EVERYDAY LIFE
INVENTS ITSELF IN
COUNTLESS WAYS BY
POACHING ON THE
PROPERTY OF OTHERS’
Michel de Certeau,
The Practice of Everyday
Life

11. ‘BEHIND EVERY
PROJECT, REINVENTING,
RECYCLING, REUSING
AND RE-IMAGINING OUR
TOWNS ARE POP-UP
PEOPLE’
Dan Thompson,
Pop-Up People

12. BUILDING UP BY LETTING GO
HOW MUCH CONTROL ARE WE WILLING TO LOSE?

13. ‘I HAVE SEEN THE
POWER OF SMALL
ACTIONS AND IT IS
AWESOME’
Pam Warhurst,
Incredible Edible Todmorden

14. CAN WE TURN TOWN
CENTRE MANAGERS
INTO TOWN CENTRE
ANIMATORS?
‘Once we invest in and create
social capital in the heart of
our communities, the
economic capital will follow’
Mary Portas

15. ‘It is through the performance of creative acts, in
art, in thought, in personal relationships, that the
city can be identified as something more than a
purely functional organisation of factories and
warehouses, barracks, courts, prisons and
control centres.’
Lewis Mumford, The City in History

16. *endnote: if you think this isn’t about hard
economics, remember the first law of the
market: the customer is always right.

17. thank you
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www.urbanpollinators.co.uk
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