How can we set-about shaping the future of market and coastal towns in Norfolk and across a nation? If our neighbourhood and town centres do not noticeably improve in the coming years, it won’t be because people don’t care. What will leave people frustrated and fail to deliver a much-heralded boost to ‘pride in place’,…
Pride in places is built on people’s sense of attachment and involvement in shaping neighbourhoods, town or city centres that are familiar to them. We can only hope to engender such pride by having a better understanding of such sentiments and how to reach out to different types of residents. Here, we share a younger…
We are excited to share that we have brought together Australian and United Kingdom know-how, to create a pilot course for boosting ‘pride in place’ in neighbourhoods, towns and city centres. And like all good community participation, we are inviting existing and would-be placemakers and managers from communities, councils and commercial interests to help…
What is the link between access to inclusive and inviting green spaces and our sense of satisfaction or pride in where we live? With the government seeking to boost ‘pride in place’ through improvements to green spaces, I thought I’d share benchmarks in access to parks in cities, towns and neighbourhoods, that might help understand…