20/20 Visions : Collaborative Planning and Placemaking

Community involvement in planning and placemaking throughearly, inclusive participatory Charrette processes can build consensus, speedup planning and add social, economic and environmental value to projects,leading to healthier, happier and more sustainable places. 20/20 Visions is aninspiring and visually stimulating introduction to the practice of Charrettebased planning (and placemaking). 20 worldwide case studies, spanning 1990's projectsin USA to present day UK, explore the context, implementation and follow up ofthe co-design process to illustrate its effectiveness in engaging allstakeholders/communities and tackling multi-layered and often tacklingdifficult development and planning issues.