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3 Ingredients to Creating a Successful Public Place

 
3 Ingredients to Creating a Successful Public Place

When we are involved in public place projects we bring a somewhat unique perspective to the process, often challenging the typical approaches and introducing different ways of going about things.

4 Reasons to Adopt a Creative Placemaking Approach in your Urban Renewal Program

 
4 Reasons to Adopt a Creative Placemaking Approach in your Urban Renewal Program

Creative placemaking helps to contribute to the local economy during the building phase of the project by involving locals in the process. Local materials are sourced and local tradespeople and artists are engaged to help create the outcomes. The engagement and participation of locals is part of the way in which authenticity is created.

Public Space & Clean Energy Production

 
Public Space & Clean Energy Production

How might we create public environments that harvest natural resources in order to generate the power that these same public places consume?

Energy consumption and production is one of our most pressing global challenges. Fusing energy production with architecture and public space design is an emerging field which demands a knowledge of the technologies available for integration into built form. Currently we have a knowledge gap in this area which means that advancement is slow. 

Community Driven Urban Renewal

 
Community Driven Urban Renewal

Community driven urban renewal is a complex and challenging process which often requires close collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders. Stakeholder engagement acknowledges the people in the places we are concerned with, engages the community in the development of their places and facilitates a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to the design of urban environments.

Fix Your Struggling Town - A Community Driven Process

 
Fix Your Struggling Town - A Community Driven Process

In May 2020 POMO set about establishing a community action group in Nambour. The group is comprised of community members from a wide range of backgrounds who are generating bottom-up solutions to the challenges that the town faces.

Urban Design Principles for Knowledge Precincts

 
Urban Design Principles for Knowledge Precincts

Since the 1990’s the global economy has been undergoing rapid change and unprecedented growth thanks to the impact of the internet, nanotechnologies and the dot com boom. (New Economy, N.D) The central driver of this global change has been knowledge and the way in which it has come to be produced, mobilised and internationally commercialised.

Flexible Working Makes City-Sense

 
Flexible Working Makes City-Sense

In these times of Covid, as we all adapt to working from home, we might take a moment to think about the positive change that these arrangements have had, and could continue to have on the liveability of our cities and our broader environment.

Are There Any Flaws In Our Smart City Vision?

 
Are There Any Flaws In Our Smart City Vision?

For several decades, cities who have implemented tech-based innovation have become known as ‘smart cities’ and as Saunders (2015) comments, “the combination of sensors, data and advanced computing has promised to speed up information flows, reduce waste and sharply improve how efficiently resources can be managed.”

What’s Killing our Public Places?

 
What’s Killing our Public Places?

The privatisation of public places goes to the heart of their functioning as publicly accessible assets which can deliver wide ranging well documented social and economic benefits to communities.

Successful Public Places as Local Economic Drivers

 
Successful Public Places as Local Economic Drivers

So what makes a successful public place? According to the Project for Public Places (PPS) “in evaluating thousands of public spaces around the world, PPS has found that to be successful, they generally share the following four qualities: they are accessible; people are engaged in activities there; the space is comfortable and has a good image; and finally, it is a sociable place: one where people meet each other and take people when they come to visit.

Crime in Public Places & What to Do About It?

 
Crime in Public Places & What to Do About It?

Every terrible act of crime perpetrated in a public place raises many complex questions none of which have simple answers. The recent murder of a Melbourne woman walking through a public park is no exception. Questions are being asked on all fronts right now and surely it is the responsibility of us all to try and bring about change.

Six Signs of A Failing Town and What to Do About Them

 
Six Signs of A Failing Town and What to Do About Them

I live and work in a Queensland regional town with a population of around 20 000 which is about 20km to the beach. Once upon a time it was the regional centre of this area but like many townships it suffered when it was bypassed by the highway, when local farmers could no longer compete with cheap agricultural imports and when the residential pull of the beachside communities became more attractive. Without doubt, it has gone through some tough times.

Renewing Urban Spaces for Community & Commercial Gain

 
Renewing Urban Spaces for Community & Commercial Gain

This article explores one aspect of the role that POMO plays in these important projects - the creation of an urban renewal design strategy.

Transforming privately owned public spaces into thriving community and commercial environments is helping lead the revitalisation of town centres around Australia.