1st Edition
Designing the Compassionate City Creating Places Where People Thrive
1. Introduction 2. Human Needs 3. Embedding and Receiving the Messages in the Urban Environment 4. What Makes a Place Nurturing or Neglectful? 5. Living in the Cmpassionate City 6. Play Quarters, London 7. Benches Collective, Various Locations in The Netherlands and Overseas 8. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London 9. De Ceuvel, Amsterdam 10. Woonerven, The Netherlands and Overseas 11. Christie Walk, Adelaide 12. The Secular Pilgrimage and South Melbourne Commons, Melbourne 13. Stewartstown Road Centre, Belfast 14. UN Habitat Placemaking Projects in West Bank Villages, Palestine 15. The Obstacles and Pitfalls to Creating Places Where People Thrive 16. Designing the Compassionate City 17. The Characteristics of the Compassionate City 18. Applying Compassionate City Principles 19. Conclusions
Biography
Jenny Donovan is the Principal of the Melbourne-based urban design practice, Inclusive Design. She set up the practice to focus on and advocate for urban design that emphasizes improved social outcomes. Her work spans urban and landscape design, social and environmental planning and neighbourhood renewal in Australia, the UK, Palestine, Ireland, Ethiopia, Kosovo and Sri Lanka.
