Communities of practice collaborative project. Valuing creative place making: development of a tookit for public and private stakeholders
2018
Link to the resource: https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:32653
- Format:
- Guide
- Target population:
- Local administrations and citizen associations
- Objetive:
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Support the public and private sector in placemaking activities that reinforce the creative and community value of urban public space.
- Methodology:
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The guide provides a compendium of tools, conceptual frameworks and methodologies to carry out placemaking initiatives in urban public space, including measurement scales, detailed processes and valuation guides, among others.
It also provides a series of indicators, contexts and recommendations on approaches to placemaking, the processes and actors involved, and reflections on unwanted effects such as “gentrification” or “homogenisation” of public space.
- Opportunities and limitations:
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It is based on a review of the scientific literature and compiles useful resources for placemaking projects of various kinds.
However, it does not provide a clear implementation path, and serves more as a series of references and inspirational cases.
- Indicators:
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Walkability. Employment/unemployment rate. Degree and type of participation of local people in participatory processes. Crime rate. Number and diversity of local actors/groups involved.
- Thematic:
- Cohesion and social capital Public space
- Link to health:
- Social
- Scale of the field of study:
- Housing / street / building / bounded public space Block - set of buildings or spaces Neighbourhood (or higher)
- Implementation phase:
- Diagnosis / pre-project Implementation
- Methodological approach:
- Observation Qualitative / Participatory Questionnaire
