RUDI: Place Making 2012: Sharing innovation in urban life
Great read with some good examples!
In creating PLACEmaking, we aimed to put together a publication offering food for future thought: the creation of social cities, the use of Big Data for civic benefit, the articulation of economic and social value, and the development of tools and processes that enable everyone to participate in the design and shaping of place.
Well worth the read! Every planner should read his views on the three planning scales (and read his book Cities for People). The on-street, human scale view is the one usually afforded the least amount of time but the most important!
Modern planning should be about life, space, and then buildings, in that order. It’s an international issue; throughout the world in spite of race, religion, and culture, biologically we all have the same development; we have the same senses. All the basics in our behavioral patterns are identical from one end of the globe to the other.
He also believes that you cant have a cycle culture without cycle infrastructure, a view I share!
