The Future of Public Spaces and Placemaking: Summary of Findings from the Knight + Urbanism Next Portland Workshop
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Date
2020-06
Authors
Crowther, Jean
Howell, Amanda
Larco, Nico
Reid, Ted
Ross, Lynn
Stewart, Mary
Stoll, Matthew
Surguine, Marsie
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University of Oregon
Abstract
The Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon, in partnership with Alta Planning + Design, Spirit for Change, and Metro hosted the Future of Public Spaces and Placemaking workshop on January 24th, 2020. This one-day workshop, supported by the Knight Foundation, brought together a wide range of community activists, government officials, policymakers, urbanists, planners, designers, technology representatives, and other professionals to share ideas and concerns, and to discuss emerging technologies such as new mobility, Mobility as a Service (MaaS), autonomous vehicles (AVs), and e-commerce, and their impacts on urban space and placemaking. The workshop concluded with a site-specific charrette aimed at investigating how communities can best prepare for these changes and adapt their public spaces to create places that are resilient, dynamic, equitable, and sustainable.
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18 pages
Keywords
urban design, sense of place, auto-oriented land uses, buzz/vitality, equity, programmatic shifts