Valuing the community as an expert in the built environment revitalisation process

Jacqueline Bleicher states that the community you’re working with knows best what’s not working and how to fix it. “Often their ideas are better, more salient, comprehensive and viable than […]
Urban Girls Catalogue

This catalogue contains new methods and tools for local urban development and planning that promote sustainable urban public spaces, that are applied in Swedish low-income areas, or in informal urban […]
Shaping better places together

The publication of this practical report marks what we believe is the first serious attempt to examine the role of facilitation in participatory placemaking. The topic is a highly relevant […]
Placemaking: What if we built our cities around place?

Within this guide, learn about the Power of 10+, the key aspects that create a place, 11 Principles for Creating Great Community Places, and the approach Towards a Place-Led Future. […]
Place Led Development – Creating vibrant communities & human scale areas

Although placemaking and real estate development often seem to be categorised in separate worlds, or even labeled as adversaries, we believe they should not be. Placemaking should be intertwined into […]
Main Streets Manual

The Main Streets Manual is an extensive tool on how to improve the main streets of cities that goes beyond the field of transportation. Focussing on six key areas (equity, […]
Locally-led neighbourhoods: A Community-led Placemaking Manual

This step-by-step methodology provides guidance, worksheets, and tips to help your community, council or organization support the implementation of community-led placemaking. This guide outlines the CoDesign Studio framework for how […]