Taking into consideration the last post about elements of great place and PPS, I was interested to see if anything had been written by PPS on Australian public spaces and placemaking aspirations. I came across an article that documented a key placemaker at PPS, Ethan Kent, and his trip across Australia. His observations are ones [...]
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Placemaking Frameworks…
“Project for Public Spaces” (www.pps.org) has produced this diagram to be used in the placemaking process. There are many attributes to this diagram that can help create a great place. It’s a well proven diagram, but does it include everything that is needed to create a great place in an Australian context? Alternatively, does it [...]
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs was one of the pioneers of placemaking. Her ideas and ways of creating inclusive places form the foundations of how we understand placemaking today. One of her greatest and simplest values was ensuring diversity and vitality was a key component in the creation and renewal of place. How though can placemakers incorporate such [...]
The qualities of place, not just space…
Separating our understanding of place and placemaking can be difficult and often hard to do during development. For placemaking to be successful, it is sometimes necessary to define both (place and placemaking) in order to create a place that is inclusive of all people. Gustafson (2001) argues that ‘place’ has: distinction: the ‘place’ is identifiable [...]
Place Planning, Place Delivery, Place Management
We’ve been having some good discussion around a framework for place making. Of course a place is never fully made or complete so we are considering the idea that place making has three parts – planning, delivery and management, and that this process is continuous as cities grow and change. Different professions and the wider [...]
2011 Ogden Transport Lecture – A free public event
The 2011 Ogden Transport Lecture is a free public event arranged by the Institute of Transport Studies at Monash University. Retrofitting Suburbia: Pragmatic ideas for a resilient built environment Presented by: Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Based on a vision that saw people living in the country while working in the city, [...]
Where to from here?
Life after the conference – the place making movement. A key tenet of place making is that one place is different from another. I can be ‘here’, which is different from over ‘there’. Take this idea of movement up a level… It is also true for where place making is at ‘here and now’, compared [...]
Welcome to the Melbourne Place Making Series Conference!
After seven months of lead up events, the Melbourne Place Making Series Conference today welcomed its speakers, international guests and sponsors at a reception in VicUrban’s corporate office. At the welcome event, these key conference stakeholders the need for more collaborative development models if cities in Australia (and around the world) are going to deal [...]
Iconic buildings and Place
Article Reference: Australian Financial Review: Grocon Tower draws attention, Nick Lenaghan 15/09/10 Iconic Buildings. What do they mean to you? Perhaps it’s Flinders Street Station, or the new ANZ building on Collins Street? What about St Kilda pier or even Sam Newman’s Pamela Anderson impression on a wall in Albert Park? These structures are imprinted [...]
Place Making on a Budget?
Some great ideas in this publication! http://www.downtowndevelopment.com/placemaking_on_a_budget.php Here’s an overview of the chapters: Chapter 1 illustrates the importance of placemaking and discusses how the placemaking on a budget approach can benefit communities. Chapter 2 provides two approaches to identifying good placemaking projects based on community values and resources. Chapter 3 centers on understanding the resources [...]
