This past weekend a Regional & Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT) from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has been leading community revitalisation workshops in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, an area devastated by hurricane Katrina. The Lower Ninth Ward is an urban district of New Orleans surrounded…
The Blaenau Ffestiniog case study in 20/20 Visions describes a charrette focused community planning process to create a strategy to regenerate the town that once roofed the world. In this inspiring video, charrette team member and artist Howard Bowcott shows us the spectacular slate sculptures and other installations that emerged…
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Regional Urban Design Action Team (R/UDAT) model has played a hugely important role in the development of collaborative planning and placemaking. Established over 50 years ago as a response to the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, R/UDATs have brought the skill of architects…
In the second half of the 20th century, a decline in the textile industry resulted in the towns along the Upper Calder Valley, Yorkshire, England suffering from neglect and failing local economies. JTP architects and community planners were commissioned by the then regional development agency Yorkshire Forward to run the Upper…
20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning & Placemaking is now available to order from RIBA Bookshops. In researching for the book, the author, Charles Campion, wrote case studies on Charrette processes from around the world. Many were based on first-hand experience and always with input and guidance from the many people who led…
20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning & Placemaking is due to release in mid-May 2018. In researching for the book, the author, Charles Campion, wrote case studies on Charrette processes from around the world. Many were based on first-hand experience and always with input from the many actors who took part in…
Mit gemeinsamer Stadtplanung das Zusammenleben in Vielfalt gestalten by Dr Ulrike Spohn Politicians decide on a project. Experts design the proposals. A committee suggests modifications. Then a compromise is negotiated. Finally, the project is implemented – and then it turns out: the citizens wanted something completely different (and simpler)…
During 2017 a specialist team from the University of Dundee (led by Dr. Husam AlWaer), Eclipse Research and Kevin Murray Associates, supported by the Scottish Government, undertook ground-breaking research into ‘the facilitation of participatory placemaking’. Dr. Husam AlWaer said, “The publication of the resulting report – ‘‘Shaping better places together” –…
On the 17 January, UCL Bartlett hosted a second event in London as part of its Large Scale Urban Development series. This time it was a unique opportunity to compare one of London’s opportunity area developments (Old Oak & Park Royal) with international projects of a similar scale. Of particular…
The first case study in 20/20 Visions: Collaborative Placemaking and Planning is of the Santa Fe Railyard Regeneration. It’s a fascinating story of a town coming together to fight a plan for a disused railway yard drawn up without their involvement, to save its heritage and to radically envision an…