Regenerative Placemaking

It was a pleasure to attend the Living Cities Forum on Tuesday. The line-up of speakers was considered and inspiring in equal measure. This year's theme was ‘Cities made with Care’. It might just as well have been called ‘Homes Made with Care,’ as housing dominated nearly every session, a timely focus given where the housing conversation is right now. However, this phrase gave us pause. Because shouldn't care be the baseline? Dan Hill (Melbourne School of Design) and Shannon

In our last Regen Series post, we discussed the importance of creating a new regenerative narrative for our places. This week, we explore how we can make Regenerative Placemaking understandable, usable, and easily connect people to their places. Village Well has been working on the ground delivering successful places for years. So we asked, how do we integrate the complex ideas of regeneration into our processes to enhance the resilience of our places and communities? Here’s

Creating places that give back We keep hearing that we’re at a tipping point, and this is true: seven of nine planetary boundaries* have been surpassed. Extreme weather events are accelerating. The gap between what we know and what we do about it feels like it keeps growing. Most alarming perhaps is how normal it’s all starting to feel. Have we resigned ourselves to this new normal? What can be done? What will make a difference? Currently, development takes more than it give

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