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November 19, 2012 | 9:30 am

Municipal Placemaking Mistakes 03: The importance of a meaningful vision

In our last post in this series, we covered the three steps of placemaking. The first of these steps, crafting a meaningful vision, is the most straightforward, yet it is also the most underleveraged.

It is underleveraged because communities do not understand its political implications. As a result they do not adequately invest in getting it right.

Mistake #3: Refusing to do the heavy lifting that is required in order to create a meaningful vision.

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Category Architecture, Community Development, Development, Economic Development, Planning and Design, Public Engagement, Resilience3 CommentsTags development, economic development, environmental performance, Envision Utah, health impact analysis, Municipal Placemaking Mistakes, Nathan Norris, NIMBY, Tony Nelessen, visioning, Visual Preference Survey

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