People Make Places

People Make Places, Melissa Mean, Charlie Tims, Demos, London (2005), (pdf file, in english)

Based on in-depth studies of three British towns and cities Cardiff, Preston and Swindon, People Make Places explores how the best public spaces are created by people and communities themselves. The book sets out the forms of governance, design principles [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, City, City Planning, Co-Creation, Community, Emergence, Institutions, Local Services, Locality, Participation, Self-Organization, UK

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These Open Peer-to-Peer design steps should be considered more as guidelines than a complete methodology: we should apply them, test them, study them more (as in research as in practice).
And this is the right time to study [...]

Tags: Bottom of the Pyramid, Business/Service, Design Methodology, Design Research, Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Local Services