SHAPING BETTER PLACES A Place-Based Regeneration Standard, Helping Communities, Environments and Economies to Prosper…
BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL
BUILDING NATURAL CAPITAL
BUILDING CULTURAL CAPITAL
• Make a public realm that improves the diversity and quantity of human interactions, everyday meetings and the possibilities for future positive events.
• Use the new architecture of ecological design and bioreceptive materials to make healthy, high quality and distinctive living and working environments.
• Use the skills, enterprise, and capacity already in place to build expectations for the future and sustain the value of the past.
• Combine and connect public spaces to make legible networks for communal life.
• Rewild planted and landscaped space to combine beautiful natural displays with life-cycle resources for urban biodiversity.
• Build social life by making it easy for shared activity to happen in a public context, encouraging diverse collaboration and participation to add value to common spaces. • Make public spaces into good habitats for humans by insisting that they are, in the smallest detail, life-sustaining.
• Patch the built environment with biological hot-spots, spreading a network of accumulating ecological gain. • Make physical and biological connections between the 3 urban infrastructures, green, grey and blue, to improve the urban metabolism, enhance ecological function, and build resilience to climate change.
• Create and extend learning networks, using information and communication technology to connect people and projects in a growing body of local knowledge. • Break down the barriers between people and place by establishing relevance; provoking attention by capturing imagination. • Utilise the distinctive cultural purposes of a place: its scientific, recreational, aesthetic and inspirational values, the imprint of human personality upon it.