Community Visioning for Place Making: A Guide to Visual Preference Surveys for Successful Urban Evolution

Community Visioning for Place Making is a toolkit that helps organizations, municipalities, and neighborhoods organize visually based community participation workshops to evaluate their existing community and translate images into plans that embody their ideal characteristics of places and spaces.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 358 pages
\n Publication date: 30 July 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Community Visioning for Place Making is a revolutionary guide that empowers communities to collaboratively design better public spaces. It offers a comprehensive toolkit to facilitate organizations, municipalities, and neighborhoods in organizing visually-driven community participation workshops, which serve as a powerful tool for evaluating their existing community and transforming images into actionable plans that embody their desired characteristics of places and spaces.

This insightful book is grounded in the outcomes of hundreds of public participation visioning sessions conducted across diverse cities and regions. These sessions vividly capture the preferences and dislikes of the people, providing valuable insights into what resonates with communities. By leveraging these community insights, the book has played a pivotal role in shaping policies, physical plans, recommendations, and codes that have been adopted and implemented in urban, suburban, and rural areas. It serves as a valuable bottom-up tool for designers and public officials, empowering them to make decisions that enhance the appeal and livability of their communities.

This book is a must-read for community and neighborhood organizations, professional planners, social and psychological professionals, policy analysts, architects, urban designers, engineers, and municipal officials who are seeking an alternative vision for their future. By embracing community visioning, these stakeholders can work together to create vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable places that reflect the unique needs and aspirations of their communities.

\n Weight: 866g\n
Dimension: 178 x 253 x 29 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367622831\n \n