1st Edition

Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

By Lesley Malone Copyright 2018
192 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

192 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Desire lines are the paths that people create through regular usage. They appear where people repeatedly choose to walk and usually signify a route from A to B that’s quicker than the formal path provided. In most cases they indicate the mismatch between what local people want and what designers think people want. By employing some social research basics in the design development process,... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Research Essentials for Community Participation  3. Observation  4. Diary Studies, A Quick Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis  5. Exhibitions and Public Meetings, A Quick Guide to Public Events  6. Survey Methods  7. Focus Groups, A Quick Guide to Communications  8. Collaborative Approaches, A Quick Guide to Reporting Research  9­­­. Ethical and Inclusive Practice  10. Participants’ Experiences

Biography

Lesley Malone has a MSc in Social Research Methods, specialising in the study of public realm. With a career background in the built environment in a variety of research, information, and communications roles, she now works as a freelance writer specialising in research methods for people-centred public space.