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PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACESLos Angeles Metro's 2010 Pedestrian Symposium May 12, 2010

When you plan for cars and traffic…you get cars an trafficyou get cars an traffic.

When you plan for people…you get more peopleyou get more people.

PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES

35 years of Placemaking– 50 U.S. States, 7 Canadian Provinces– 41 Countries– 2500 Communities– 2 Million visitors to our web sites

(2009)(2009)– 35,000 people get our electronic

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Regions where Placemaking has RootsSingaporeSouth KoreaJapan

Czech RepublicMontenegroS

MexicoColombiaChileJapan

Hong KongSerbiaKosovoCroatiaAustralia

ChileSt Kitts/Nevis

South Africa

Hungary PolandSl ki

AustraliaNew Zealand

Netherlands

TanzaniaDubaiAbu DhabiSlovakia

RomaniaBulgaria

NetherlandsNorwayUK/ Scotland

Abu Dhabi

Chicago

GeorgiaArmenia

Italy

Canada

HoustonLos Angeles


Singapore - 10 Sites


What is Placemaking?

Placemaking is a dynamic human function: it is Placemaking is a dynamic human function: it is an act of liberation, of staking claim, and of beautification; it is true human empowerment.; pPlacemaking is turning a neighborhood, town or city from a place you can’t wait to get through city from a place you can t wait to get through to one you never want to leave.


“Placemaking” is an overarching idea and a hands-on tool for improving a and a hands on tool for improving a Neighborhood, City or Region. It has the potential to be one of the most the potential to be one of the most transformative ideas of this century

Metropolitan Planning Council - Chicago


When you focus on a place, d hi diff lyou do everything differently.

Benefits of Good PlacesFosters More Frequent & Meaningful Interaction

Nurtures & Defines Community Identity•Greater community organization

Builds & Supports the Local Economy

•Improved sociability•Cultural exposure & interaction•Exchange & preservation of information,

wisdom & values•Bolstered barter system

Reduced race & class barriers

•Sense of dedication & volunteerism•Perpetuation of integrity & values•“Mutual coercion, mutually agreed-upon”•Reduced necessity for municipal control•Self-managing

Local Economy• Small-scale entrepreneurship• More quality goods available• Higher real estate values• Local ownership, local value• More desirable jobs •Reduced race & class barriers

•Feeling of interconnection

j• Increased currency velocity• Greater tax revenue• Reduced need for municipal services

Place Draws a More Diverse Population

•More women, elderly, and children •Greater ethnic & cultural pluralism

S t f id g f ti iti & P t P bli

Creates Improved Accessibility

Place

•Support for wider range of activities & uses•New service, retail and customer niches•Variation & character in built environment•Instilled confidence to create one’s reality

Promotes Public Health & Comfort•Less crime•More outdoor physical activity•Generally stimulating

y•More walkable•Safe for pedestrians•Compatible with public transit•Reduced need for cars & parking•More efficient use of time & money


•Generally stimulating•Sense of belonging•Improved environmental quality•Feeling of freedom and limitlessness

•Visually attractive destinations•Greater connections between uses

“Converging Ideas around Place”

“The blunt calculation by public officials that if they can’t make their downtowns and

i hb h d li th ’t neighborhoods appealing, they can’t compete… all of these hinge on the deceptively simple challenge of creating deceptively simple challenge of creating places… that people intuitively like.”

G i g M g i-- Governing Magazine


Convergence of Movements

Civil Society/Democracy BuildingC i Democracy Building

Public Health and Community Livability

Community Development &Smart Growth

Environmental Sustainability

Energy & Consumption PLACES SustainabilityConsumption PLACES

Local Food Systems

Transportation & L d U

Local Economies

Historic Preservation


& Land UseHistoric Preservation

Shifting Context of Cities Then and Now

1910 20101910 Where people need to be

2010Where people want to be

Streets as Destinations and Community Anchors


If we can develop and design streets so that If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be—community-building places, attractive for all y g p ,people—then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.

-- ALAN JACOBS


Great Streets = Great Cities


Istiklal Street – Istanbul


Buenos Aires - San Telmo


Paris – A City of Boulevards


Paris

From Congested to Shared Streets in 5 yearsShared Streets in 5 years

Sidewalks widenedBuffered bike lanesDedicated bus lanes


Dedicated bus lanes

Paris – Sidewalk Cafe


London AFTER

Trafalgar Square

BEFOREBEFORE


Copenhagen

Gammel Strand 1988

Gammel Strand 1996


Copenhagen


Düsseldorf-Koenigsalle


Amsterdam Trams and It’s Squares


Amsterdam – The Dam


Amsterdam - Leidesplein


Amsterdam - Rembrandtplein


William H (Holly) WhyteWilliam H. (Holly) WhyteThe Organization Man,1956The Exploding Metropolis, 1958The Last Landscape, 1968Plan for the City of New York, 1969y ,The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, 1980City: Rediscovering the Center, 1988

The street is the river of life,th l h t t g th the place where we come to together,

the pathway to the center.– William H Whyte


William H. Whyte

Blank walls are an end in themselves. They declare the supremacy of architecture over humanity, of a building p y y, gover a person.

Museum of Modern Art NYC


Museum of Modern Art - NYC

Benches are artifacts, the purpose of which is to punctuate architectural photographs. They are not so

fgood for sitting.


One of the best things about water is the look and feel of it…It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.


If no one wants to go If no one wants to go out to the Park, no one is going to stop them.

Yogi Berra─ Yogi Berra


It’s hard for people to realize that creating a place is more important than design. ─ PPSp g


It has to be a Campaign

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PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACESPeople Who Make Dramatic Change By John Kotter

Wh When you come to a fork in the road,take it.

– Yogi Berra

BE BOLD!


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