Archives of Participatory City

PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES

The Project for Public Spaces has been a mayor influence on the Keskuskelupuisto project. This New York based Non-Profit organisation has been dedicated to the question: what makes a good public space? How does it evolve? Their work is based on and extends the pioneering urban research by William Whyte and Jane Jacobs. Whyte studied […]
6 years ago

PARTICIPATORY CITY IN PRACTICE

The good people of the Particpatory City Foundation and the Dutch “Specht in the Stad” initiative have collected citizen driven projects from all around the world. Projects that potentially can change neighbourhoods, to make them more accesible, inclusive and fun. For the participants of keskuskelupuisto this could be a good inspiration for their own design […]
6 years ago

THE PARTICIPATORY CITY

While researching for this project we realized how common the term “participatory city” has become. It is not so much the question of whether or not citizens should play a more important role in the planning and designing of “their” city that is discussed. There is an appearant consensus that this is in general a […]
6 years ago