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Designing our Cities for Play

Jodi Mansbach

Urban Design Matters

Park Pride

March 21, 2016

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Play

Beyond the Playground

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Get out of the car!

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Design principle 1

Embrace density

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Design principle 2

Pay attention to scale

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Design principle 3

Focus on the public realm

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MIXSON

North Charleston

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Corral the car

Shared common space

Active commons

Rooms of public space

- Ross Chapin

Pocket Neighborhoods

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FLATS at Mixson

Smaller footprint – more common

areas

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Common spaces

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INDUSTRY CITY

Brooklyn

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INDUSTRY CITY

Brooklyn

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Streets turn into courtyards

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PONCE CITY MARKET

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New York

1926

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The Midway

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Miniature Golf

The Sign

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Slide

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Heege

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Food

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CHATTAHOOCHEE NOW

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discover your city has a riverfront

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Los Angeles River

Pop Up Parks

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Imagine the public realm

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the surfaces, streets, walls,

sidewalks, plazas, corridors,

transit stations, public plazas

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