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Placemaking Evaluation

Placemaking evaluation is the structured assessment of whether a public-space intervention — a redesigned plaza, a reclaimed street, a new pocket park — actually makes the place more sociable, comfortable, and well used. Drawing on the observational tradition of William H. Whyte and Jan Gehl and codified by the Project for Public Spaces, it combines qualitative place-quality judgements with countable measures of activity, often comparing the same site before and after the change. The result is evidence that a place works for people rather than a designer's assertion that it should.

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Placemaking Evaluation (Assessing Public-Space Interventions)

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Carmona, M. (2019). Principles for public space design, planning to do better. URBAN DESIGN International, 24, 47–59. · DOI 10.1057/s41289-018-0070-3
Gehl, J., & Svarre, B. (2013). How to Study Public Life. Island Press. · ISBN 9781610914239

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