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

• Main Author: Nelessen, Anton C. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2021
• Subjects: City planning > Citizen participation; Public spaces > Evaluation; Social surveys > Methodology
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"Community Visioning for Placemaking is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities to design better public spaces. It provides a toolkit to encourage and assist organizations, municipalities and neighborhoods to organize visually-based community participation workshops to evaluate thei...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to community visioning
• The progression of urban change
• Research, development and results
• Measuring visual responses for place making
• Ten steps for a successful community visioning process
• A visioning session
• Prologue to the five vision focus areas
• Vision preferences for natural areas
• Vision preferences for rural areas
• Vision preferences for suburbia
• Vision preferences for small towns
• Vision preferences for urban cores of larger cities
• Communicating vision preferences : recommendations and realizations
• The future of planning and public engagement
• Why I am hopeful and sometimes not.