What does Placemaking mean and how does it relate to Urban Design? This PPT introduces Placemaking and urban design, its scope and role in the creation and management of attractive places for people. More information available at http://www.placefocus.com/Urban-Design-101/place-101.html
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2. Albert St Picnic, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS (Source URBNE)
▸ TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO CREATE AND
ATTRACTIVE PLACES.
▸ Upon completion you should have:
▸ an understanding of Placemaking and urban design and the
delivery of quality places within our urban, regional and rural
communities
▸ related the theory, leading concepts and principles
to your work environment
▸ awareness of a range of practical tools and techniques
to ‘hit the ground running’
▸ access to national and international best practice
▸ generated ideas to improve placemaking outcomes
in your place
OUTCOMES
3. Bee Gees Way, Redcliffe, QLD, AUS
1 Placemaking + Urban Design 101
2 Place Values
3 Place Qualities
8 Outcomes
4 Place Typology
5 Place process
6 Place roles
7 Toolkit - placemaking ideas
9/10 Links+ conclusions
PROGRAM
What+Why
How+Who
4. INTRODUCTIONS
▸ Stand up and introduce
yourself:
▸ Name
▸ Job
▸ Share something
remarkable about your
place
▸ “Attracting or worthy of
notice, especially for being
unusual or extraordinary”.
Hosier Ln (Graffiti Ln) - Melbourne, VIC, AUS
6. INTRODUCTIONS
▸ Introduce yourself
▸ Name
▸ Job
▸ Share something
remarkable about your
place
▸ “Attracting or worthy of
notice, especially for being
unusual or extraordinary”.
Hosier Ln (Graffiti Ln) - Melbourne, VIC, AUS
7. Coronation St, Bardon, QLD, AUS
PLACEMAKING
▸ “Placemaking is enabling and
empowering people to create
attractive place”
10. Church St, Dubbo, NSW, AUS
PLACEMAKING BY PROJECT
▸ Incrementally creating quality
places through independent urban
design projects which enable
activities and sense of place.
11. Church St, Dubbo, NSW, AUS
PLACE ACTIVATION
▸ Popup Placemaking
▸ Lighter, quicker, cheaper
12. Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, AUS
STRATEGIC PLACEMAKING
▸ Larger-scale
transformative projects,
strategies and activities
for a location.
13. Ruthven St, Toowoomba, QLD, AUS
CREATIVE PLACEMAKING
▸ Partners from public, private,
non-profit, and community
sectors shape the physical
and social character of a
neighbourhood, town, city, or
region around arts and
cultural activities
14. Popup Restaurant and Bar, Church St, Dubbo, NSW, AUS (Source: What's On In Dubbo)
PLACEMAKERS
▸ Day to day activities of
people contribute to creating
attractive places
15. Wilson Ave, Brunswick, VIC, AUS
PLACE MANAGERS
▸ Is a Placemaker who
manages a defined area of
significance
▸ Proactive intervention which
maintains the qualities of a
successful place and
responds to change.
17. THE VILLAIN I
'City of Light' by the Hilltop Hoods
I'm from the city of light, with a sky of vanilla,
Known as the city of churches home of the serial killer...
Cans and markers, Country Road parkers,
Hands of an artist left the landscape enchanted,
Until the government pigs had all the paint washed,
From our city walls, end of the renaissance,
And so walls where the colours once played,
Were replaced by the buff, now a sullen blunt grey,
White washed, shitty, all grey, all black,
Waiting for the kids of this city to take their walls
back.
21. BP City Road, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
PLACES FOR PEOPLE NOT JUST CARS
22. ▸ Urban design creates authentic, sustainable and
quality places for people across the range of urban
environments.
Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
WHAT IS URBAN DESIGN?
25. Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW, AUS
RANGE OF PUBLIC PLACE
NEW CITY LIFE Jan Gehl
▸ Urban stroll ways: boulevards, avenues, streets
▸ Main city space: squares, frame events
▸ Local city space: playing and staying
▸ Ceremonial city: seats of power, celebrations
▸ Transport hubs: dominated by people in transit
▸ Green city spaces: variety of uses
▸ Staged city space: staged sensory experiences
▸ Temporary city space
▸ Aquatic city space
▸ Waterfront city space: access to views and water; and
▸ City space for play and sport: permanent specialised equipment
▸ Deserted city space: large surfaces few activities
26. QUALITY PUBLIC SPACE
▸ William H Whyte :
“It is difficult to design
a space that will not
attract people.
What is remarkable is
how often this has
been accomplished .”
Melton, VIC, AUS
27. Banksy “Blank walls are criminal” (Source: https://www.touchofmodern.com/sales/banksy-on-canvas--4/blank-walls-are-criminal
29. Pennyweight Walk, Bendigo, VIC, AUS
SENSE OF PLACE
“Urban design is not just
about physical form, but
lived experience as well.
It has a social and
psychological dimension:
creating a sense of
continuity and
authenticity.” (Buchanan,
2009)
Bendigo
▸ 1990's - Streetscape
▸ 2000's - Shared Zone
▸ 2000's - Laneways
▸ 2000's - CBD Plan
▸ 2010's - Place manager
▸ 2010's - Active + Healthy
30. Nocturnal - City of Greater Dandenong, VIC, AUS (Jason Edwards Photography)
SENSE OF PLACE
▸ a feeling not a location
▸ special or unique, authentic and
belonging
▸ Engwicht Secret 1 - make
people feel at home
31. Royal Croquet Club, Victoria Square, Adelaide City, SA, AUS
SENSE OF PLACE
▸ Built environment
+++ features, events,
people and activities
▸ Social Fabric
▸ Emerging attributes:
opportunity, identity,
innovation, creativity,
authenticity – more
powerful attractors
32. Currie St, Nambour, QLD, AUS
URBAN DESIGN V PLACE ACTIVATION
▸ Urban design:
▸ The Stage
▸ House
▸ Hardware
▸ New buildings and
infrastructure
▸ design
▸ Space
▸ Utilitarian
▸ Experts?
▸ Enables placemaking?
▸ Place Activation:
▸ The Show
▸ Home
▸ Software
▸ Existing buildings and
places
▸ Activities
▸ place
▸ Social
▸ People
▸ People watchers?
33. PLACEMAKING = ENABLING
Better Block - Dallas, Texas
▸ “Placemaking has a broader
scope than urban design.
▸ Behind urban design there is
a collective of interdisciplinary
specialists in the field.
▸ Behind the concept of
placemaking there are the
voices and perspectives of a
whole community. Not
relegated to a passive
consultation process, but
actively engaged in the
design concepts and
outcomes.” Online participant
37. 1. SUMMARY
▸ Placemaking – enabling,
empowering
▸ Urban design is one tool
▸ Inherently collaborative and
multi-disciplinary
▸ Form and function
▸ Range of public places
▸ Sense of place
▸ Our role is critical
City Square, Melbourne City, VIC, AUS
SUMMARY
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Every city seems to need markets (and laneways)!
The Nolli plan (in this instance Rome) is a useful urban design tool. It shows buildings in black and the spaces in between in white. Generally the more complex the pattern the more interesting the place. Think of the pattern of your nearest big box shopping centre - box in black surrounded by hectares of white parking!
What would the Nolli plan be of your favourite place?
Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours?
Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours?
Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours?
Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!).
Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!).
Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
Stories like the bible or the koran have always played a critical role in our society
In fact many people argue that our brains are wired to remember stories.
We often tell stories about places.
Particularly with songs.
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What song is this?
What place?
What story does it have?
What is Council doing?
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Stories like the bible or the koran have always played a critical role in our society
In fact many people argue that our brains are wired to remember stories.
We often tell stories about places.
Particularly with songs.
(click)
What song is this?
What place?
What story does it have?
What is Council doing?
(click)
A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!).
Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
It's all about the quality of the public space - the area between the buildings (usually in public ownership) which is quickly forgotten.
Lindy + Allan's house in my street contributes to the street by defining the transition from public to private space. It features an obvious front gate and low fence, front door leading to the veranda (a place for strangers out of the rain), front room is semi public (sitting room not a bedroom). Garage to the side.
A good introduction to urban design – which hasn’t dated. Beautiful hand drawn illustrations of European cities by the author.
An easy book to read (do yourself a favour and borrow it from the library!) which confirms that cities need public places with different functions. Not just deserted city spaces!
It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street!
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street!
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street!
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street!
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
Great places benefit from a ‘sense of place’...
which is broader than built form. Places tend to be our favourite parts of the city - whereas spaces tend to be dead or unsafe?
A lookout along Latrobe Tce in Paddington, Brisbane – one of my favourite places (has anyone seen the TV remote?).
Often social fabric (soft infrastructure) is critical to placemaking - the events, festivals etc
The arrow marks the couch!
I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
We know what to do with community consultation – we don’t always do it well though?
The cascades in Oatlands is a landscaped pathway designed as a compromise to the existing community who didn't want a street connection.
These houses relationship to the street is facilitated by rear garages.
Have a look at the ‘Built to Last” movie on the internet site and tell me what you think? There are a couple of other movies on this site you might like to view as well.
http://www.youtube.com/user/1standMain#p/u/2/VGJt_YXIoJI
What do you understand about New Urbanism?