Place making urban design

Adaptive Streets is an illustrated handbook to inspire and guide citizens, planners and officials to re-imagine how our streets can be adapted to increase utility and delight as well as enhance human

In this Guest Post from our colleagues at Project for Public Spaces, they delve into why good public space matters and how to make it.

Placemaking according to Fred Kent <3

Placemaking is a participatory process for shaping public space that harnesses the ideas and assets of the people who use it.

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With community-based participation at its center, an effective Placemaking process capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration, and potential, and it results in the creation of quality public spaces that contribute to people's health, happiness, and well being.

The Place Diagram http://www.pps.org/reference/what_is_placemaking/?utm_content=bufferfb748&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Indian streets are vibrant public spaces, yet over 70% lack pedestrian footpaths, resulting in unsafe conditions for the city's growing population.

“A Guide for Creating a Playable City” explores the idea of a "Playable City" as an ecosystem of playable opportunities intertwined within the existing urban infrastructure that doesn't just disrupt o