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Herod, Megan R.

Citizen-led planning is about the power and strength of neighbours to shape the reality they want to create in their communities. It is an approach to planning practice that is driven by local knowledge, community action and the amenities and assets that already exist in a community. Placemaking is the connection that we feel or create in a space. We facilitate placemaking through individual acts to make a space our own but also through community-led initiatves such as tactical urbanism, everyday urbanism and restorative cities; all models of urbanism that seek to transform spaces into communities that foster a sense of belonging and a feeling of home. The cultivation of this emotional response to a space is the essence of citizen-led planning. These emotions of love and care for a community or particular place mobilize citizen engagement and ignite change. In our daily environments we seek places for sadness, happiness, stillness, etc. These places that are so crucial to our emotional well-being and sense of belonging are the spaces that improve our everyday reality. They are often places too tiny to fit into a community plan or strategy. They are the “places in between.” A term created for this project that means places on a neighbourhood scale that are an important party of our everyday routine. This project argues that through innovative approaches to planning, architecture and design, as demonstrated through an example in Vancouver’s Kensington-Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood, we can create communities that truly create a feeling of home and work to address our needs on the smallest of scales: the everyday.

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University of British Columbia. SCARP Graduating Projects

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0342691

Applied Science, Faculty of; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of

Graduate

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