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NYC Zoning - Zoning Tools - 0 views

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GroundUp Waterfront nyc Public_Spaces

shared by Janine Shea on 25 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Public Access Requirements In all districts, residential, commercial and community facility developments on waterfront zoning lots (except for residential uses in low-density residence districts, heavy commercial and industrial uses in Use Groups 16, 17 and 18, and certain city infrastructure facilities, such as airports) are required to provide and maintain public open space at the water’s edge with pedestrian links to upland communities. Public access is also mandated on piers, platforms and floating structures. Water-dependent uses, such as docks for ferries and marinas, are also required to provide waterfront public access areas but are subject to a more flexible standard.
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.”
  • parks, downtowns, waterfronts, plazas, neighborhoods, streets, markets, campuses and public buildings
  • his process is essential–even sacred–to people who truly care about the places in their lives.
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  • Placemaking is both a process and a philosophy
  • 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
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