Placemaking Training

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Placemaking is a simple concept based on a single principle – people choose to live in places that offer the amenities, resources, social and professional networks, and opportunities to support thriving lifestyles. Michigan’s leaders have embraced placemaking.

Background

MiPlace is a a statewide initiative with the purpose of keeping Michigan at the forefront of a national movement known as placemaking. It’s a simple concept that people choose to live in places that offer the amenities, resources, social and professional networks, and opportunities to support thriving lifestyles.

CEDAM is among the many partners that work to improve the quality of life of Michigan’s citizens by promoting the creation of vibrant cities, towns, and villages, and in so doing, make Michigan’s communities competitive in the new global economy.

Learn more about the MiPlace partnership, Sense of Place Council and the partners here: miplace.org/about-miplace

Placemaking Guidebook

This guidebook is currently available for free for Michigan residents. This tool describes much of the placemaking curriculum and highlights case studies.

A few ways you can use this guidebook:

• Supplement the information you absorbed in the different placemaking modules (either in person or by webinar)
• Fill in the gaps of knowledge from missed curriculum
• Refer back for examples and references

Learn more about it in this informational webinar.

If you are a Michigan resident and interested in obtaining a free copy of the Placemaking Guidebook, please fill out this user agreement.

Additional Resources

• MiPlace
• Steps to a Walkable Community
• Talking the Walk
• Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
• Sustainable Street Network Principles
• Model Street Design Manual
• Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
• Transportation for America
• Active Living Research
• Principles of Urban Retail Planning & Development
• Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
• Michigan Sign Guidebook
• GVMC: Form-Based Code Study
• The Architecture of Community
• Design Guidelines for Historic Buildings, Detroit Historic District Commission
• Smart Code Central
• National Charrette Institute
• Planning & Zoning News
• U.S. Green Building Council
• Form-Based Codes Institute
• Center for Applied Transect Studies
• Michigan Congress for the New Urbanism: Form-Based Codes in 7 Steps
• The Charrette Handbook (NCI)
• Placemaking Video (NCI)
• International Association for Public Participation
• Institute for Public Policy and Social Research
• Public Participation Spectrum (IAP2)
• Spicer Group: Hacking the Public Presentation
• Planners’ Communications Guide: Public Participation
• MiCommunity Remarks
• State of Michigan’s social media policy
• APA Webinar: Social Media for Planners
• Beginner’s Guide to Twitter in Local Government
• 10 Ways Facebook Can Help Local Government