Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition is not just about pavement. It’s about people.

Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition is not just about pavement. It’s about people.

“The most important tenet is that the process must be open and welcoming to all who want to participate. This is not to say that everyone will get what they want out of Placemaking. The point is that there will be an opportunity for people not just to share what they want, but also to listen to their neighbors’ ideas, and to be part of the process of shaping the public spaces that they share with those neighbors. The end result should be a space that’s flexible enough to make room for many different communities, and encourage connections between them.”

Vibrancy does not need to be limited to a few 'unusual' areas; if you look for unusual ways to use them, all public spaces can be vibrant / Photo: PPS

https://www.pps.org/reference/placemaking-as-community-creativity-how-a-shared-focus-on-place-builds-vibrant-destinations/

Place Making

Place Making

“Placemaking is not just a design endeavor. Or a business proposition. Or a public health pursuit. Or an equity concern. Or an avenue for culture and the arts. It’s all of these things, and more. It’s the basis for how we, as human beings, organize ourselves. It’s how we physically embody our values in the built environment. It’s how we make opportunity available to all. It’s how we build resilient local economies and legitimize the prospects for people of all stripes to build wealth over their lifetimes.

But in the context of our present regulatory and financial environments, that doesn’t necessarily happen naturally, requiring the need for municipal intervention to ease the pains of change. Two things in particular: enabling meaningful placemaking so that good places can be built faster to meet demand; and, as that process unfolds, protecting — via tax policy, affordable housing initiatives, and similar endeavors — the most vulnerable who are frequently the casualties of rapid change.”

http://www.placemakers.com/2017/02/28/placemaking-geek-niche-or-the-root-of-pretty-much-everything/