csmp sg5

Question 1

placemaking

Answer 1

What is it? Designing/creating a space that would benefit the people and environment to create sustainability and strengthen connections between people and places.
Why is it important? Makes people form emotional attachments to an area, making them care about the place, small business attachment, welcoming community and sustainability

Question 2

who creates a place?

Answer 2

planners and architects: want to create a 24 hour city, design can reflect culture and history of place.
government: use placemaking to attract investment, places attract TNCs, more jobs so more disposable income so more money into economy, positive multiplier effect.
community organisations: social media allows people to create and exchange information, hold fundraising events, groups bring people together, influence the making of new places from the point of view of local residents.

Question 3

why did colombo need rebranding?

Answer 3

• traffic congestion, no pavements and air pollution is above WHO’s standards.
• lack ofplanning control, historical buildings are semi-derelict, and buildings are run down.
• USS grown within the city: focus for deprivationand disease and crime.
• regular serious flooding
• commercial environment is out of date and unattractive

Question 4

players in rebradning 1: flood control and government

Answer 4

• flood control: player is the metro colombo urban development project. Cleared canals an waterways choked with refuse, dredged canals and repaired anks to improve draining, installed wider rainage pipes, marshalands dredged to create artificial lakes to balance reservoirs and store waer,lakes cleared up and surrounding areas landscaped to create wetland ecosystes.
• governmeny: 70,000 USS households. 2011: USS clearance phase 1. Relocation of 65,000 households, 20 devlopment sites and more than 15,000 units have been built with toilets and showers, guaranteed ownership to the land and rent is 400-6000 ruppees

Question 5

rebranding colombo 2: history and port city

Answer 5

1 - upgrading historic buildings: player - colombo municipal council. Colombo has rich colonial ehritage with buildings, they werer semi-derelict. In the last 4 years many have been cleaned up and landscaped e.g. the town hall, old racecourse ground and national archives, increased tourism.
2 - port city: player - china. china spendong $15bn, due for completition in2018, recliame 250 hectares of land from the sea in the port area and create a city within a city, compromise of major commercial development, shopping malls, a marina, urban racetrack and entertainment complexes. Aimed at attracting FDI but not complete, and create a 24 hour city.