RE-PURPOSED space An overall strategy is to ensure more “people space” in downtown. The quick win approach is to identify the places in downtown with potential for becoming permanent well-functioning and inviting public space, by only adding few elements, taking out cars or closing slip lanes for traffic. Space with great potential - today used for parking cars.
The quick win is an exercise of re-purposing open space in downtown with potential for becoming a “people space” instead of a “car space”.
A quick win; introducing permanent opportunities for public life to unfold in space previously preserved for cars
Approach: • Identify potential places • Work with property owners/agencies to develop a new purpose. • Invite the local “front-runners” - artists, non-profits, architects and designers to engage and implement permanent but flexible-, sustainable, low cost interventions. • Focus on small interventions and urban acupuncture, on the edge, experimental, new. • Focus on seasonal uses - 24/7/12 - to invite a wide range of user groups.
A number of places throughout downtown have been identified for possible quick wins; re-purposing space
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