How to Turn a Place Around is a friendly, common-sense guide for everyone from community residents to mayors on how to understand and improve the public spaces in their communities. The ideas presented in this book reflect Project for Public Spaces’ twenty-nine years of experience in helping people to understand and improve their public spaces. The community-based and “place-oriented” process outlined in this book is organized around the eleven basic principles of creating successful public spaces along with methods that anyone can use to evaluate a space.
Source: How to Turn a Place Around: A Handbook for Creating Successful Public Spaces
Published: 2001