Placemaking
Placemaking is a collaborative and creative process to help communities transform public spaces. A placemaking approach to mobility seeks out interventions to make streets and sidewalks feel like places to spend time in, rather than spaces simply to move through.
These interventions can lead to improvements in traffic safety and accessibility as well as encourage a sense of community.
Placemaking projects are good pilots to test or make the case for policy changes in transportation and community design.
Placemaking interventions can be permanent adjustments to the built environment to change how people move through spaces, interactive additions to encourage social activity or play, or temporary interventions.
iSome examples of placemaking include:
sidewalk expansions, conversion of roadway into pedestrian space, and static pieces of public art
exercise facilities, push-button heat lamps, and collaborative digital art
events, performances and farmer’s markets.
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