The #placemaking movement is going to a new level! #Placemakers are self-organizing around regional networks and upcoming events: #PublicMarkets19 #PlacemakingWeekEurope #PlacemakingLatinoamerica #PlacemakingWeek #NZPlacemakingWeek #PlacemakerWeekASEAN

We're excited about this new winter programme. Discover Ōtautahi/Christchurch through architecture. #architecture #Christchurch

#PlacemakingX will launch on Monday! Full website unveiled here: placemakingx.org Launch event at #PlacemakingWeekEurope on Thursday. Let’s take #placemaking to a new level together!!

The #PlacemakingX website is now live! This network of 100 pioneering #placemakers, and their regional networks, are poised to accelerate and amplify the #placemaking movement globally, transforming how we all shape, and are shaped by, #publicspaces. placemakingx.org

You work in Place. Place is the smallest unit of manageable complexity. We're looking for the healthy Patterns (essence) of home. Relationship is essential. Meaningful Purpose around Potential. It's a Practice. #billreed #regenerativedevelopment #chchconversations

Every Place is a unique and whole living organism. Work in place is powerful. #chchconversations #billreed #regenerativedevelopment

The public launch for #placemakingx is tonight at #PlacemakingWeekEurope! (9pm) with Charlot Schans @EBKent Sheila Foster Rony Jalkh Guillermo Bernal Laska Nenova @jplistens. #placemaking sched.co/Pequ

Want to learn more about seismic engineering and different levels of design? Come to our guided walk on Innovative Engineering 2pm, 6 July, $5+bf State of shock: How our buildings save lives but little else stuff.co.nz/national/nz-ea…

Best way to keep warm at #christchurchartsfest. No lambs arrived yet Neil McInroy but will keep lookout

If you had to sum up the most important and enduring argument in Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities, this is it. We still don’t fully understand how cities work, and big interventions to bring order to their chaos often destroys the real underlying order.

#PublicSpace has become a cross-cutting cause in #GlobalDev, & #placemaking a means to bring us together for faster, broader, & more systemic, impact. After a great #WUF10 launch of #PlacemakingX, placemaking leaders continued a big presence throughout the #WorldUrbanForum.

I was recently asked to present my formal road stopping procedures. I said it was more semi-formal.

This is how ya do it, Auckland.

Mike Fisher Oxford Tce looking much more suited to the 21st century these days.

The Octagon Pilot in Dunedin is a fantastic example of demonstrating what change looks like, how it feels, and importantly what it means. Asking people about change raises fears, demonstrating change creates new habits and understanding. #InnovatingStreets

Mike Fisher Proposal for surface carpark instead of friendship corner park.

Our social and cultural capital will be the foundation stone for new economic capital once we return to physical places and gain a new sense of local (as globalism will take longer to re-emerge) How do we capture the learnings from this to have a place led economic recovery

A story about parking and opportunity cost. talkingtransport.com/2020/04/03/a-s…

"Government stimulus in the form of roads aren't going to cut it. There is a huge opportunity for #placemaking in the recovery stage as it will focus on multiple outcomes (Economic, Health & wellbeing, Social, & Environmental) at a local level.
" Peter Smith #PlacemakingAus

After weeks in lockdown you're an expert in your neighbourhood. Show us what #LocalFind you've discovered. Then join us & Mike Dickison for a #wikitutorial & learn how to add your neighbourhood photos to Wikimedia Commons on Sun 3 May at 3pm or Wed 6 May at 6pm.