Place Making and VicUrban
Place Making is a conscious objective to create public living spaces that promote people's health, happiness and well being, today and in the future.
Find out more information about the Melbourne Place Making Series, sponsored by VicUrban.
Disciplines Involved in Place Making
The development of place brings together a range of disciplines including:
- Economic development
- Urban design and Environment
- Culture
- Community Development and Engagement
- Finance, Delivery and Governance
- Strategic Marketing
VicUrban's Role in Place Making
VicUrban’s role is to create great places for people to live, work and visit. We are place makers, not just developers.
In carrying out this role:
- We innovate
- We advocate
- We champion local communities and economies
- We understand local context
- We actively partner / collaborate with government and other agencies
- We manage political processes
- We demonstrate the value of upfront investment
VicUrban Place Making Projects
Some of our place making projects include:
- Aurora Northern Town Centre: community workshops
- Revitalising Central Dandenong: redesigning the station forecourt to concentrate activity
- Docklands second decade: creating specific character areas to increase diversity within Docklands
Melbourne Place Making Series
The Melbourne Place Making Series – a collaboration between VicUrban, Department of Planning and Community Development, City of Melbourne, Federation Square and Village Well – will start a conversation to engage policy makers, practitioners, influencers and decision makers in debating the value of place making as an urban development response to these challenges.
Visit www.placemakingseries.com.au to join in the conversation and debate and be part of the change.
Illustrations, diagrams and plans shown in this website are artist impressions for presentation purposes only and are subject to change.
