20/20 Visions

Chapter|4What is Collaborative Planning and Placemaking?

‘The essence of community planning is simple – all around us we are surrounded by people who have within themselves, whether they recognise it or not, a great wealth of common intelligence and knowledge. If we can tap that knowledge and intelligence we can enrich all the processes that we are involved in, we can bring about much better solutions and we can even involve the people in sustaining these solutions in the future.’

JOHN THOMPSON, FOUNDER CHAIRMAN, JTP, AND HONORARY PRESIDENT, ACADEMY OF URBANISM (AOU)

When considering the future of a place there are numerous ways of connecting communities and gathering information, including surveys, questionnaires, social media, one-to-one ...