7 Ways to Disrupt Your Public Space: Proactive Placemaking

A preview of Project for Public Space’s 7-point list:

By directly involving communities in shaping their public spaces–leading with people, not design–Placemaking is in fact a highly disruptive approach. Placemaking tosses out the idea that an architect or planner is more of an expert about how a place should be used than the people who are going to use it. By bringing people together around a shared physical place, it’s also a powerful tool for disrupting local complacency. Great public spaces give people a tangible way to connect with their neighborhoods, building a stronger local constituency–akasense of community–over the long term.