Project for Public Spaces is pleased to offer a training at CNU 26.Savannah taking place on Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 (1-5pm) as part of the event’s pre-conference activities.
Placemaking and New Urbanism have the same desired outcomes: to improve the quality of our built environment and the experiences we have there. Both approaches can find themselves at the same endpoint, but often via different paths. Therefore in this 4-hour afternoon training session directed at new urbanists, smart growth practitioners, esteemed thought leaders, and placemaking extraordinaires, PPS will share ideas and knowledge around our pioneering, bottom-up approach to engagement and design known as placemaking. Placemaking’s place-led, community-based process empowers residents and stakeholders to diagnose their own neighborhoods, streets, and communities first, then enlist the decision-making government leaders and the discipline experts so that all can work together on public and private interventions.
Diving in head first and hands on, in this training participants will receive an overview of PPS's placemaking approach and learn some of the tools used in creating vibrant places. For example, participants will learn:
- the fundamentals of a place-led process
- the principles of transforming a public space
- how to use placemapping (such as PPS's Power of 10 activity) to look at placemaking at multiple scales
- learn how to develop streets that function as places, not just spaces for moving vehicles
- how to implement and manage public spaces with a Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper (LQC) approach (also known as guerilla urbanism, pop-up projects, city repair, D.I.Y. Urbanism, and Tactical Urbanism).
Weather permitting, participants will use PPS’s Place Game tool to evaluate a public space in downtown Savannah. [Conference planners and PPS will work ahead of time to define a plaza, square, waterfront, or street to audit.] Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
We hope to see you there!