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Janine Shea

Project for Public Spaces | What is Placemaking? - 0 views

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GroundUp Placemaking Community-Level Sustainability Crowdsourcing Non-Profit

shared by Janine Shea on 30 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • “’Placemaking’ is both an overarching idea and a hands-on tool for improving a neighborhood, city or region. It has the potential to be one of the most transformative ideas of this century.”
  • Placemaking is both a process and a philosophy
  • his process is essential–even sacred–to people who truly care about the places in their lives.
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  • parks, downtowns, waterfronts, plazas, neighborhoods, streets, markets, campuses and public buildings
  • unite people around a larger vision for a particular place
  • Placemaking is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. Put simply, it involves looking at, listening to, and asking questions of the people who live, work and play in a particular space, to discover their needs and aspirations. This information is then used to create a common vision for that place. The vision can evolve quickly into an implementation strategy, beginning with small-scale, do-able improvements that can immediately bring benefits to public spaces and the people who use them.
  • Unfortunately the way our communities are built today has become so institutionalized that community stakeholders seldom have a chance to voice ideas and aspirations about the places they inhabit.
  • Experience has shown us that when developers and planners welcome as much grassroots involvement as possible, they spare themselves a lot of headaches.
  • underperforming development projects can be avoided by embracing the Placemaking perspective that views a place in its entirety, rather than zeroing in on isolated fragments of the whole.
  • guidelines that help communities integrate diverse opinions into a vision, then translate that vision into a plan and program of uses, and finally see that the plan is properly implemented.
  • designing cities that catered to people,
  • perpetuate the community-driven, bottom-up approach that Placemaking describes.
  • Placemaking Grows into an International Movement
Janine Shea

State Impact Newsletter | Michigan Outreach - 0 views

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Michigan Impact GroundUp Community-Level Colleges Validation Engagement

shared by Janine Shea on 07 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • It is my pleasure to introduce you to Michigan Impact. The University of Michigan is having tremendous impact throughout our communities. From the downtowns of Detroit and Grand Rapids and the shorelines of Traverse City and Muskegon, to the community colleges of the Upper Peninsula and the medical clinics in mid-Michigan, U-M is committed to improving the quality of life in the Great Lakes State.
  • A new $9 million U-M Great Lakes research and education center will guide efforts to protect and restore the world's largest group of freshwater lakes by reducing toxic contamination, combating invasive species, protecting wildlife habitat and promoting coastal health.
  • Nearly $1.7 billion in support for the U-M comes from donors and gifts from every county across Michigan. Support also comes from alums, and that happened in a significant way this year in the arts at U-M.
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  • Long-standing collaborations with urban, rural and Native American communities around the state—in issues of the environment, K-12 education and higher education preparedness, public health, community and economic development and more—continue years later to contribute to the well-being of the state of Michigan and its citizens.
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