MLS Professional Services
Ethical Places
This workshops explores what makes places like neighbourhoods and town centres worth living in.
Many places are marketed on their investment potential, but other than metrics and statistics such as increasing property values and low crime rates, what do people actually want from the places they live in?
Here, we discuss whether neighbourhoods and town centres widely offer what people require to ensure their basic needs are met, such as secure and affordable housing, clean air and streets, safety, good infrastructure and amenities, and opportunities for work, wellbeing, good health and connecting with others. We will look at examples that stem from the idea of 15-minute cities/neighbourhoods. We also look at the challenges that can prevent some of these basic needs from being met, including the impact of activity from outside investors, private car-dependency, store and branch closures and poor infrastructure and a lack of support for businesses and residents.
This discussion is approached from a spatial justice standpoint, and engages the notion of land democracy and ownership to frame a number of different place-based issues.
Using the Doughnut model, we will also look at examples of places that have used the City Portrait to analyse their places, which in some cases, has led to significant strategic changes with positive, measurable outcomes for towns and cities across the world.
Many places are marketed on their investment potential, but other than metrics and statistics such as increasing property values and low crime rates, what do people actually want from the places they live in?
Here, we discuss whether neighbourhoods and town centres widely offer what people require to ensure their basic needs are met, such as secure and affordable housing, clean air and streets, safety, good infrastructure and amenities, and opportunities for work, wellbeing, good health and connecting with others. We will look at examples that stem from the idea of 15-minute cities/neighbourhoods. We also look at the challenges that can prevent some of these basic needs from being met, including the impact of activity from outside investors, private car-dependency, store and branch closures and poor infrastructure and a lack of support for businesses and residents.
This discussion is approached from a spatial justice standpoint, and engages the notion of land democracy and ownership to frame a number of different place-based issues.
Using the Doughnut model, we will also look at examples of places that have used the City Portrait to analyse their places, which in some cases, has led to significant strategic changes with positive, measurable outcomes for towns and cities across the world.
