in Seven Weeks or Less
Revitalise Your Town Centre
The essential placemaking guide for local government authorities and communities
$49 + pp
214 Pages - 142 Colour photos and diagrams
Sick of endless talk... and unaffordable wish lists?
Are you bogged down in talk and more talk?
Revitalise Your Town Centre in 7 Weeks or Less is a practical, step-by-step guide on how to breathe new life into the civic heart of your town or neighbourhood shopping precinct. It shows you how to stop talking, and start creating real change on the ground... right now!
$49 + pp
Learn 36 trade secrets
for how to create a prosperous and vibrant town centre.
Always start your makeover by creating 'linger nodes' in your 'eddy spaces'. If you don't have a town square, don't panic. Your eddy spaces are far more valuable.
Many of these techniques cost little or nothing to implement
Simply putting outdoor cushions on a boring park bench can make people feel more at home
Audit Tools & Ideas Generation
Every one of the 36 trade secrets has one or more audit questions to help you evaluate your space... and one or more ideas-generation questions to help you brainstorm some creative interventions.
$49 + pp
Packed full of practical examples
Learn the power of trials... and see how they have been used in the real world to create change.
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Revitalise Your Town Centre in 7 Weeks or Less has 142 full colour pictures and diagrams.
A must-read...
Visionary and practical.
Many of the ideas can be implemented quickly by local businesses themselves...
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It will help you create a thriving and successful town centre or shopping precinct.
Dean Cracknell, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Town Teams Movement
Discover why placemaking...
is first and foremost a psychological task and a citizenship task... not primarily a design task. Design is the carriage at the back of the train, not the engine driving it.
$49 + pp
