INTRODUCTION PLACEMAKING + URBAN DESIGN
Elizabeth St, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
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
Bee Gees Way, Redcliffe, QLD, AUS
1 Placemaking + Urban Design 1012 Place Values3 Place Qualities8 Outcomes4 Place Typology
5 Place process
6 Place roles
7 Toolkit - placemaking ideas
9/10 Links+ conclusions
PROGRAM
What +
Why
How + Who
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
INTRODUCTIONS
Hosier Ln (Graffiti Ln) - Melbourne, VIC, AUS
“It is an offence to mark graffiti
on property
that can be seen by the public unless the
owner has given you permission.... with
very serious penalties, including large
fines and imprisonment”
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
Coronation St, Bardon, QLD, AUS
PLACEMAKING
▸ “Placemaking is enabling and empowering people to create attractive place”
ENABLING
Warner Way, Caroline Springs, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
Howard St, Nambour, QLD,. AUS
EMPOWERING
Church St, Dubbo, NSW, AUS
PLACEMAKING BY PROJECT
▸ Incrementally creating quality places through independent urban design projects which enable activities and sense of place.
Church St, Dubbo, NSW, AUS
PLACE ACTIVATION
▸ Popup Placemaking
▸ Lighter, quicker, cheaper
Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, AUS
STRATEGIC PLACEMAKING
▸ Larger-scale transformative projects, strategies and activities for a location.
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
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
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.
There is no 'one size
fits all' to creating
better places
PLACEMAKING
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.
Woodsons Lane, Adelaide City, SA, AUS
CHANGE IS HAPPENING
URBAN DESIGN
Uruk (4,000–3100 BC)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uruk_Archaealogical_site_at_Warka,_Iraq_MOD_45156521.jpg
THE VILLAIN II
BP City Road, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
PLACES FOR PEOPLE NOT JUST CARS
▸ 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?
WHAT IS URBAN DESIGN?
QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
Import Lane, Docklands, Melbourne City, VIC, AUS
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
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
Banksy “Blank walls are criminal” (Source: https://www.touchofmodern.com/sales/banksy-on-canvas--4/blank-walls-are-criminal
THE FRONT DOOR TEST?
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
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
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
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?
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
LUCKY IT’S INTRINSIC
Urbne Festival, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
PEOPLE MAKING PLACES
Centre Place, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
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
VIDEO – JAMES KUNSTLER