Creative placemaking
Creative placemaking serves livability, diversity, and economic development goals. Instead of a single arts centre or a cluster of large arts and cultural institutions, contemporary creative placemaking envisions a more decentralised portfolio of spaces acting as creative crucibles. In each, arts and culture exist cheek-by-jowl with private sector export and retail businesses and mixed-income housing, […]
Parkwatch
In May 2023, Make Space for Girls asked people to take part in a citizen science project, counting how many teenagers were using the facilities in their local park, and how many of these were girls. This report sets out the results. The data shows how much girls really are designed out of parks. Make […]
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 some of the ideas being imposed upon them.”In this chapter of Our City she gives the reader tactics and insights on how to work with […]
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 settlements in the global south. This publication shows that a feminist approach to urban livability is important in understanding the diversity of perspectives on livability […]
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 subject, given the increasing application of participatory and community design-led events in Europe and elsewhere. This practical report provides an insightful guide, identifying the many […]
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. This resource turns theory into practice and is for anyone interested in placemaking – whether that be a veteran of projects to keep coming back […]
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 the real estate development process. This is what over the last decade we started to call “Place Led Development”. Place led development transforms placemaking from […]
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, safety, health, economic vitality, environmental sustainability and community), the tool explores why transportation and main streets matter. Moreover, the manual offers recommendations for both physical […]
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 councils and communities can deliver placemaking projects. Step by step, it will take you from exploration of community ideas through to implementation and evaluation of […]
