Urban Thinkers Campus Report: Making Cities Together - The City We Need through Safe, Inclusive and Accessible Public Spaces
Urban Thinkers Campus Report: Making Cities Together - The City We Need through Safe, Inclusive and Accessible Public Spaces

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Executive Summary
In the ‘Making Cities Together’ Urban Thinkers Campus the development of public space took center stage. High quality public spaces are excellent starting points for improving the standards of urban life for all citizens. They are crucial for well-functioning, inclusive and sustainable cities.
In the Sustainable Development Goals, public spaces have been recognised as a crucial element for attaining sustainable human settlements and by extension, sustainable development. This UTC contributed to target 11.7 that states, by 2030, to provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children and older persons and persons with disabilities. Another pivotal Sustainable Development Goal to implement sustainable public spaces is number 17; revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. Through bringing together the international community focussing on the Global South, we enhanced the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilized and shared knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries - as target 17.16 states.
The UTC contributed to the New Urban Agenda (NUA) mainly on article 37, 41, 53 and 67. In short this articles state that member states commit to promote public spaces and participation. Moreover, Article 100 states that member states support the provision of public spaces. This UTC developed action points for multi-stakeholder groups that have been shared at the Governing Council 26 of UN-Habitat in May 2017, where member states convened.
This UTC ‘Making Cities Together’ focused on how to implement these goals and agenda to promote and provide public spaces to ensure the development of high quality and inclusive public spaces to create the City We Need by using participatory processes, like placemaking. It offered participants the opportunity to actively engage in dialogues, living labs and networking sessions - learn-by-doing. Together we explored action-oriented approaches to the answer question ‘How can you and your organisation contribute to implementation of public space interventions as a tool for regenerating and planning neighbourhoods and cities worldwide.’
Anchored on this, the UTC “Making Cities Together- implementing safe, inclusive and accessible public spaces to create the City We Need” aimed to:
Objective #1: Bring together the international community during an interactive UTC, in order to bring out all voices, create strong linkages and exchange knowledge between all partners and above all, to create engagement and commitment to take actions that are relevant to create good quality public spaces in their cities.
Objective #2: Design together action-oriented frameworks regarding the implementation of the topics and themes of the New Urban Agenda on public spaces and participation. The focus will be on placemaking, up- scaling and replicating, finance, maintenance and governance in public spaces for communities in cities around the globe.
Objective #3: Share the outcomes with the international community. The outcomes will be practical frameworks as input for their national and local action plans to implement the New Urban Agenda regarding public spaces.
Organising this UTC in Nairobi, Kenya at the UN-Habitat Headquarters with partners that have worldwide experience in placemaking, and public spaces was a great opportunity to share knowledge and experiences with an international audience, including the strong Kenyan public space network. We selected 100 participants out of 300 applicants in order to have a comprehensive and well balanced group that was able to engage and commit to action during a two day Campus. 93 delegates (48 females, 45 males) joined the Campus, and represented 22 nationalities from Africa, Asia, Europe, South and North America, of which Africa and Europe were most represented. Seven partner groups were presented: Local and Sub-National Authorities, Grassroots, Business and Industries, Civil Society Organisations, Children and Youth, Professionals, Research and Academia. From Kenya the local authority of Nairobi and a large private sector New Town developer were present. This enabled the UTC to create strong public-private partnerships, which are crucial regarding the development of public spaces for all.
The delegates were warmly welcomed by our team at the UN compound. The UTC was introduced by Christine Auclair, Project leader of the World Urban Campaign and the initiator of the UTC, the International New Town Institute, followed by its key partners Project for Public Spaces, UN-Habitat and Placemakers. They introduced the Campus and shared the role they play in the field of public spaces and placemaking. After the introduction the Urban Thinkers Sessions took off with 2 groups of each 4 Keynote speakers followed by dialogues on placemaking, public space developments in New Towns, small-scale placemaking initiatives and large scale public space transformations.
In the afternoon, the Urban Labs ‘Living Labs’ took place at different locations in or in the surroundings of Nairobi. The Living Lab method was used to bring different partner groups together in an project context to turn global discussions into practice on-site. The Living Labs were in most cases connected to the activities of the partners that organised this UTC, like the New Town Lab in Tatu City, the Making Cities Together’s Model street project in neighbourhood Dandora and the Nairobi City County’s city-wide public space inventory and placemaking week. The developed Design Thinking tool to integrate research and innovation processes guided the participants. Through a process of analysing Observations, Needs and Ideas for Improvement 8 concrete action points per Lab were developed. The action points that derived from the labs were related to 6 categories:
- Place Governance;
- Mapping existing situation & Identity;
- Programming of Public spaces;
- Financial models & Partnerships;
- Capacity Building and Leadership; and
- Green Public spaces.
The next day the action points were integrated in an action-oriented framework during Interactive Partner group sessions. This enabled the participants to prioritize the actions points and to analyse the roles, responsibilities, benefits, time-lines that are necessary to take collaborative action. Implementation of public spaces was acknowledged as a collaborative process, therefore it was crucial to define responsibilities ‘who will initiate the process?’ and ‘how can we convince other partner groups to join the process, what is in it for them?’.
The Key outcomes, the prioritized actions, were:
- Meeting and work with new partners;
- Communication on ‘what is public space’ to enable the conversation;
- Create long-term partnerships to create jobs and sustainable (productive) public spaces;
- Organise an urban experiment: a small-scale placemaking activity in public space and communicate about it afterwards;
- Map the existing context to create new paradigms for New Towns;
- Build a toolkit for leadership & community empowerment on public spaces; and
- Set up a steering committee on programmes in public spaces on city level;
During the UTC, the participants were very much engaged and realized that it is time to take action, learning-by-doing. Many of them already started to make future plans in groups during the informal sessions. The commitment of participants to implement these actions after the UTC was advanced by the final session: an interactive game where every participant had to select the actions point(s) they are planning to implement.
Introduction to the Campus
Background
This UTC was grounded on the co-creation and implementation experiences from the public space project Making Cities Together (2014-2017 in Nairobi) of the organising partners and other international public space projects. The Making Cities Together project aims to develop a sustainable, viable, and long term agenda for Nairobi’s public spaces. Making Cities Together (MCT) adopted the Placemakers methodology. This methodology seeks to revive public spaces by understanding the existing context by evaluating the local potential and capitalising on the local assets and ideas. The Urban Thinkers Campus was a crucial step of the roadmap MCT project in order to share knowledge and to develop up-scaling and replicating tools to create more impact.
MCT Roadmap
- Demystification of Nairobi’s social-spatial ecosystem (Placemaking inventory)
- International Placemaking Design Lab (Placemaking strategies)
- Implementation of one of the Placemaking strategies (Showcase Model street)
- Platform on public spaces (UTC conference and other international/local events)
Placemaking toolbox for an interactive UTC
In order to bring a diverse group of stakeholders together in an action-oriented Campus, a placemaking toolkit for this event was developed. The different tools stimulated interaction of the participants - with the various locations in Nairobi, and with each other.
First, by using the ‘space for thought signage’ towards the Campus space as a space for thought and discussion provoking questions, such as ‘Have you ever felt excluded in public space’, ‘Where did you have a picnic in the park?’ and ‘If you were in charge, which public space in your city would you improve first?’. This intervention also promoted the UTC event to all other visitors to the UN Compound, and the importance of public spaces.
Second, during the introduction of the UTC an informal plenary questionnaire on public space was held. Each participant was appointed a colour of a certain Partner group and was asked to put up their coloured triangle shape when they, for example, felt safe in their neighborhood, or when they had experience with the design or development of public space. This way, the UTC participants quickly got to know each other's’ backgrounds, worries, hopes and motivations.
Third, on the way in 6 buses to the various Living Labs across the city, each UTC participant was given a ‘public space working card’ to fill in during the bus ride. On the way there, the participants got to know Nairobi’s different faces and they were triggered to look at the city differently with a playful ‘Bus Bingo’. Are there happy people, playing children, elderly or protests in the streets? It invited the participants to start a conversation with their neighbors about why they had come to the conference. It also included information on SDG’s and the NUA in order for people to read more in-depth, while they were stuck in traffic jams. On the way back, the working card requested the participants to share experiences of the Living Labs by means of creative expressions such as quotes and drawings.
Fourth, during the Living Labs, each group was invited to ‘On-site Design Thinking’ towards action with the help of large posters or ‘canvasses’. Starting with the main themes, issues and assets of the location and ending with clear-cut and practical actions to improve the site, each group used this canvas to fill in and formulate their future tasks together.
Fifth, during the final ceremony, all UTC participants were asked to make clear decisions for the action after this Campus, representing their Partner group. Each Partner group was given a ‘box’ to stand in. The participants showed their commitment publicly by stepping out of their Partner group ‘box’ into a ‘box’ titled with a specific action point. This resulted in different groups of people with the same goals for action. The groups were pictured together and the pictures were shared afterwards. This physical commitment in front of all the participants stimulated to Make Cities Together in the future, starting today (during the UTC).
Last but not least, the closing drinks were intervened by students with a ‘truth or dare game’, asking the participants to, for example, find three things they had in common, share their favourite spot in their city or make a ‘selfie’ together. Again, a playful and informal intervention aimed at stimulating interaction between the participants for the future of public space. The effort put into making this Campus particularly interactive proved effective, creating many strong connections among the participants, showed by collaborative action and feedback.
Summary of all session
- Urban Thinkers Session 1 and 2 (keynotes)
In each two sessions, four Keynote speakers were invited to hold a 5 minute pitch, followed by an interactive dialogue with the audience.
Session 1
Public spaces in New Towns

Session 2
- Urban Labs ‘Living Labs’
The Living Labs took place at 6 locations in or near Nairobi organised together with 6 local partners working on public spaces. During the Living Lab 8 actions points were developed by different partner groups to implement safe, inclusive and accessible public spaces. An On-site Design Thinking ‘canvas’ guided the participants to note down observations, needs, ideas for improvement to finally define the priority for action. The feasibility of the action points was discussed and reported in an action-oriented framework during the Interactive Partner group session on Day 2.
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Urban agriculture could contribute to a financial model of the spaces and make the features that generate more viable business;
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There is a potential for male empowerment to avail more role models i.e. father figures;
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Hip-hop could be a useful tool to share experiences and empower youth.
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Generating a development kit for neighbourhoods to steer growth and development;
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Up-scaling by using local craft like beadwork and artwork.
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Better street lighting as a strategy for encouraging ‘eyes on the street’;
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Better drainage and use of retention of stormwater in harvesting;
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Uniform design for the kiosks;
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Use of art for community education.
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Use of art performances for key messaging to encourage behaviour change;
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Create places to stay in and install street furniture to encourage the same;
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Create productive spaces through which locals can earn their livelihood;
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Organizations could partner and collaborate to create awareness, train and mutually exchange ideas;
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Improved productivity of the space e.g. through urban agriculture.
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Maintaining momentum generated through competition;
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Expanding the reach of initiatives;
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Connecting spaces and acknowledge different types of community public spaces from the courtyards to the streetscape.
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Management of courtyards by immediate neighbours to foster ownership. The information of how to manage these spaces spreads to other groups or courtyards by word of mouth. Residents are encouraged to contribute a monthly financial upkeep fee. The spaces can also generate revenue through charges for parking, job creation (e.g.: security guards) etc;
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Phase 4 of Dandora took a year of providing free services (e.g.: space management and parking) to gain trust of residents and encourage them to pay a monthly security fee (100 Kshs);
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Some landlords collect the fee through rent and pass it on to DTL (the CBO);
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Dandora has great opportunities for placemaking because the land is leased;
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Courtyards are a community-level public spaces open to everyone but predominantly used by adjacent residents;
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Efforts to make placemaking inclusive for women and children are a challenge as it is currently male dominated. Possibilities are acknowledged in including them in possible urban agriculture in the area;
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Overcrowding in community play grounds leads to quickly worn out spaces;
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Improved accessibility by using open gateways instead of locked ones;
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There is a need to raise awareness of possible benefits of placemaking to steer future development processes.
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The personal responsibility over spaces fosters the motivation to care for them;
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Strong and sustainable leadership is essential for the success of community–led initiatives.
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Inclusive programming;
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Sustainable leadership;
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Larger sense of identity within Nairobi.
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Experience sharing to promote a collective identity;
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Integrate the financial model in placemaking;
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Inclusive diverse programming;
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Use public space in leadership development within communities. Placemaking can be a tool for community empowerment;
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Community-led organizations to inform a city-wide strategy.
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The public spaces should be made more inclusive;
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The effects of the changing political climate;
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There is a lack of follow-up activities by partners;
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Lack of adequate female participation;
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Lack of access to long-term founders/sponsors for operational costs and for improving existing projects;
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There should be a sustainable way of generating income within the community;
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There is a need for green spaces;
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There is a need for stability;
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There is a need for commitments within the members and partners.
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The youth groups are trying to create programmes that will attract more women into the space;
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Funding- and partner commitment seems to be key challenges;
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The initiative has had important guests such as the Secretary General’s who inspired the local member of parliament to promote the area by providing roads;
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Finding the right donors that are willing to work with youth can be challenging;
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Money generating endeavours can assist in covering operational costs of the public spaces.
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Capacity building;
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Mentorship programmes;
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Income generating projects;
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Gender diversity;
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Long-term partnerships for sustainability as it is being a major challenge in the progress of the public spaces available;
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Initiating new business, social, spiritual and health projects would improve the people’s way of living.
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There are concerns on the need for diverse economic groups living in Kilimani;
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The chances of success are improved when residents are included in the process of finding a solution.
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Mapping is very important to get involvement from the private sector. It can also be used as a tool for private investment;
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Introducing a variety of stakeholders (especially in the mixed areas) is crucial;
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There is a potential to add valuable public spaces in already used spaces such as green areas and exercise areas.
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Recreational spaces;
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Mapping;
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Programming;
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Utilization of road reserves.
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Street design;
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Affordable housing;
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Vocational training possibilities;
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Facilities and infrastructure to the disabled;
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Recycling;
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Provision of affordable services and amenities;
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Use of events and festivals to bring inclusiveness and activate the area in an early stage.
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Top-down planning approach;
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Gated communities’ exclusivity;
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Issues of governance.
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Define public and private while including variation;
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Connect green spaces into a blue-green network as a water park and water retention;
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Development of Tatu city as a circular city;
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There is a need for temporary programming as an instrument to develop a permanent program.
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Involve existing and future communities;
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Improve public space plans (ownership);
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Ensure cultural relevance;
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Improve connectivity through a circular city plan;
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Prototype temporary programs;
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Develop a governance model.
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Safety;
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Street furniture;
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Advertisement in public spaces;
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Public/ street art;
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Privatisation by corporates;
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Poor maintenance;
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Green spaces.
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Walkability;
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Bike riding spaces;
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Good environmental quality;
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Networks and connectivity;
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Lines of communication.
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There is a need to publish an inventory report and general information regarding public spaces.
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A need for policing of infractions against public spaces.
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Increase of the number of public spaces;
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Public spaces serve as an avenue for opportunities for people;
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A need for better communication;
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Strategy is very important in creating awareness.
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Using the power of 10 + (see Key note of Ethan Kent, Projects for public spaces);
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Mapping is essential;
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Stakeholder engagement is key;
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Need for necessary and applicable laws;
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Create communication campaigns.
Second day of the UTC

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We all have set up a meeting which we did not know before! (over 40 commitments)
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All of us will communicate on ‘what is public space’ to enable the conversation. (over 40 commitments)
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We will create long-term partnerships to create jobs and sustainable (productive) public spaces! (27 commitments)
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We will organise an urban experiment: a small-scale placemaking activity in public space and tell the story afterwards! (23 commitments)
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We will map the existing context to create new paradigms for New Towns! (23 commitments)
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We will build a toolkit for leadership & community empowerment on public spaces! (16 commitments)
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We will set up a steering committee on programmes in public spaces on city level! (12 commitments)
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We came by foot today. (7 examples of public space users!) [footnote: This was the answer to an ice-breaker question. Outcome is part of the list, because the individual action to walk and cycle more in cities will make public spaces more vibrant and cities more sustainable.]

Key outcomes of the UTC
The outcomes Objective 1
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93 participants
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22 Nationalities (Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South Ameria)
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8 Partner groups (Grassroots, Business and Industries, Civil Society Organisations, Children and Youth, Professionals, UN Agencies, Research and Academia)
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48 Women and 45 Men
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9 action points participants committed to take action within the action-oriented frameworks;
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Participants from different organisations collaborate already on action points, see the outcomes of objective 2.
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Place governance,
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Mapping existing situation & Identity,
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Programming of public spaces,
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Financial models & partnerships,
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Capacity Building and Leadership and
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Green Public spaces.
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May 2017: Public space training for regional public space ambassadors for UN-Habitat which created Public space ambassadors at UN-Habitat regional offices (Egypt, Lebanon, Afghanistan)
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May 2017: UCLG in Jakarta trained on public spaces and explored public space projects in the region. October 2017: Placemaking Week in the Netherlands. PPS, Placemakers and other partners will organise small scale placemaking interventions and dialogues.
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June 2017: The Public Space bill that was released that was discussed by a large group of the UTC Participants and influence was requested.
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July 2017: Crowd funding Campaign for the Making Cities Together project “UPcycling commUNITY’ included different participants after the UTC.
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August 2017: Public space project in Vietnam by Placemakers, CCCO DaNang and UN-Habitat
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November 2017: 2nd Placemaking Week in Nairobi, Kenya. The strengthened network will contribute to Placemaking and activate public spaces by organising placemaking interventions and dialogues.
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November 2017: New Town Lab in Tatu City with INTI and other participants focusing on planning and design of public spaces within the framework of green and watermanagement.
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Urban Renewal Network in Kenya
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Safe, inclusive and accessible public spaces developed in Upper Hill, Nairobi
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Amended public space bill will contribute to long term improvements of public spaces in Nairobi.
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Building Tatu City aiming at safe, inclusive and accessible public spaces (and 7 other cities are built in Africa by the same real estate company)
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5 May 2017: Presentation and debate organised by Naipolitans together with our UTC partners in Nairobi to discuss the outcomes of the UTC with urban enthusiasts in Nairobi, Kenya.
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8 May 2017: Networking and knowledge sharing continued to a greater and different audience (national/ member states) during the 26th Governing Council of UN-Habitat. The outcomes were presented during a well attended side event organised by Arcadis (lead partners WUC) and the WUC. And in the pop-up public space the outcomes of the UTC was presented as well.
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9 June 2017: The debate on public spaces in New Towns was continued by INTI at the UTC ‘Education for the City We Need’ organised by the Technical University of Delft (NL) during the Urban Lab session ‘Adaptive planning for African New Towns’. The Design Thinking tool was used again to guide participants to develop concrete action points.
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June 2017: Meet up Placemaking week in Amsterdam with PPS and Placemakers and other partners on Placemaking.
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26 June 2017: Presentation ‘Lessons from the slums’ part of the series on the NUA in Pakhuis de Zwijger, an urban platform in the Netherlands. MCT and the UTC were presented for an audience with professionals and citizens.
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Key note presentations:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B08JzZd_QD4BZGhzakpPWGF5UlU
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Please follow the link to access the presentations made by the teams of the various Living Labs: http://utc-makingcitiestogether.weebly.com/action.html
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Introduction presentations1: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B08JzZd_QD4BSTRDNGRPWklab3M
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Conclusion & way forward
The Urban Thinkers Campus “Making Cities Together: The City We Need through safe, inclusive and accessible public spaces” was an international interactive conference to create strong collaborations and to develop action-oriented frameworks. The goal was to define actions to implement the New Urban Agenda: promoting and providing public spaces to ensure the development of high quality and inclusive public spaces to create the City We Need by using participatory processes, like placemaking. The UTC contributed to the international action-oriented discussion on public spaces, bringing together different partner groups from civil society organisations, grass roots organisations, children and youth, local and sub-national authorities, business and industries, professionals and research and academia from 22 countries.
High quality public spaces are excellent starting points for improving the standards of urban life for all citizens. Public spaces are under pressure by rapid urbanization that is taking place, especially in the global South. The Keynote speakers addressed crucial elements on development of public spaces and placemaking processes. Public spaces will function well for a city if they are equally distributed, built up as a network, with linkages between different economic groups, represent the local culture and address the continuum of human to city scale. Placemaking contributes to bring social and economic change, inclusion and to promote culture. Placemaking is needed as an interdisciplinary and participatory design, planning, construction and management process, preferably place-led, involving all stakeholders.
In the Living Labs the discussion on small-scale community initiatives in public spaces focused on using the momentum and leveraging on local leaders’ motivation and good ideas for Local Economic Development and cultural activities. Support is key through leadership trainings and long-term (financial) partnerships, whereas the authorities could use the knowledge, ideas and projects as input for a city wide strategy. Public spaces in New Town development should act as a driving force for integration in the surrounding environment. Community participating in planning and programming to ensure cultural relevance is recommended as well as developing new governance models in New Towns. The discussion at the local authority level focussed on mapping public spaces, engaging stakeholders to challenge the issues on public spaces, like safety, green spaces, privatisation of spaces and maintenance.
The outcomes of the Living Labs was used to develop action-oriented frameworks focussing on the main themes: Place governance, Mapping existing situation & Identity, Programming of public spaces, Financial models & partnerships, Capacity Building and Leadership and Green Public spaces. The Framework enabled the participants to define the roles, responsibilities and incentives for stakeholders to take action on short and long term.
The outcomes of this UTC show a lot of knowledge and ideas on every level are present and the next step is taking action. This UTC enabled the participants to take the first steps with concrete action points and stimulate collaboration by using different placemaking tools.
Concrete action points:
- All of us will communicate on ‘what is public space’ to enabling the conversation,
- We will map the existing context to create new paradigms for New Towns,
- We will organise an urban experiment: a small-scale placemaking activity in public space and tell the story afterwards,
- We will build a toolkit for leadership & community empowerment on public spaces,
- We will create long-term partnerships to create jobs and sustainable (productive) public spaces, and
- We will set up a steering committee on programmes in public spaces on city level.
The UTC also functioned as a podium, highlighting existing projects and active placemakers all over the world. Projects and collaborations were strengthened with knowledge, ideas, inspiration and action plans. Many follow-up activities are being organised by different configurations of participants, like the Placemaking Week, UTC on urban design education, UN-Habitat public spaces ambassadors, Placemaking Network Nairobi and the New Town Lab on public spaces in Tatu City: Making Cities Together.
Recommendations to National Governments
On the basis of the UTC outcomes, what are your recommendations to National Governments and other Stakeholders, including local and sub national governments, in order to effectively contribute to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda ?
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creating an inventory on public spaces and publishing information regarding public spaces.
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Stakeholders engagement for input in the city wide strategies and to build and design public spaces together.
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Developing a city wide public space strategy.
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policing of infractions against public spaces.
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Increasing of the number of public spaces;
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Using the power of 10 + (Human to city scale)
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Implementing necessary and applicable laws;
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Creating communication campaigns.

Monitoring & reporting
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Amount of meetings with an UTC participant. (over 40 commitments)
Amount of action that came out of the meeting. -
Have been communicating on ‘what is public space’. (over 40 commitments)
How often, how and which platform/network. -
Amount of intentions or created long-term partnerships (27 commitments)
With whom are you intending or creating a long term-partnership -
Amount of planned or happened urban experiments: (23 commitments)
What was organised and how was the story told afterwards. -
Amount of participants that mapped the existing situation and stakeholders (23 commitments)
Was this for new towns? What did you map and which tool was used? -
Amount of toolkits for leadership & community empowerment on public spaces that were build (16 commitments)
Was there collaboration between the participants? For which topics toolkits were build? -
Amount of steering committee on programmes in public spaces were set up. (12 commitments)
On city level? What are the goals and which stakeholders are involved? -
Amount of people that go on foot to their work (7 examples of public space users!)
Do you observe public spaces and the use of them more after the UTC?
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(short term 1-2 years) 500 words
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The outcomes of the UTC were shared during the 26 Governing Council of UN-Habitat to reach out to the international community and member states.
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The debate on public spaces in New Towns was continued by INTI at the UTC ‘Education for the City We Need’ organised by the Technical University of Delft (NL) during the Urban Lab session ‘Adaptive planning for African New Towns’. The Design Thinking tool was used again to guide participants to develop concrete action points.
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Develop a placemaking interactive toolkit for other UTC conferences to stimulate strong networks.
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A public space toolkit for leadership & community empowerment on public spaces will be build and shared with the international community and other partners that are implementing the New Urban Agenda.
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(long term up to 2030 to implement the SDGs, up to 2036 to implement the NewUrbanAgenda) 500 words (naomi)
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The Placemaking Week will be organised in different cities world-wide supported by Project for Public Spaces and the UTC network will be involved to create awareness and to stimulate culture, design and social activities.
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Share a report with UN-Habitat on the long term outcomes of the UTC.
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creating an inventory on public spaces and publishing information regarding public spaces.
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Stakeholders engagement for input in the city wide strategies and to build and design public spaces together.
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Developing a city wide public space strategy.
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policing of infractions against public spaces.
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Increasing of the number of public spaces;
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Using the power of 10 + (Human to city scale)
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Implementing necessary and applicable laws;
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Creating communication campaigns.
List of key speakers
- P.K. Das, P.K. Das Associates, India, Indian
- Ethan Kent, Project for Public Spaces, US, American
- Michelle Provoost, International New Town Institute, The Netherlands, Dutch
- Nick Langford, Rendeavour, Kenya, English
- Tatu Gatere, Kounkuey Design Initiative, Kenya, Kenyan
- Robinson Esialimba, Dandora Transformation League, Kenya, Kenyan
List of Participants
List of Partner Groups Represented
- Grassroots organisations
- Research and academia
- Children and Youth
- Business and Industries
- Local and sub-national authorities
- Professionals
- Civil Society Organizations
List of organizations represented
- Orkidstudio
- Independent Cultural Heritage Consultant
- Ain Shams University
- UN-Habitat
- Fojab arkitekter
- A City Made by People
- Planning Systems Services Ltd.
- Medair
- Urbar
- AICS Nairobi
- Avanti Architecture
- Kurema Kureba Kwiga
- Riziki source
- AKU - East African Institute
- University of Amsterdam
- Kounkuey Design Initiative
- Spearhead Africa Limited
- PK Das and Associates
- Kounkuey Design Initiative
- Beyer Blinder Belle
- PPS
- INTI
- Placemakers
- KUWA
- Architects without Borders
- Land + Civilization Compositions
- Cape Town Partnership
- WUC Project Leader
- UN-Habitat
- WUC Steering Committee
- Arcadis
- World Urban Campaign
- Private sector constituency group
- Dandora Transformation League
- Tatu City
- Rendeavour
- Nairobi City County Government
- Mathare Environmental
- Hoperaisers/Korogocho streetscape
- Pamoja Road Safety Initiative
- Upper Hill District Association
- Safer Nairobi Initiative
- Kitui Town Administration
- Destined For Greatness Kenya
- Mazingira Safi Initiative
- CKO Design
- Kajiado County Government
- Urban Design Team - KE
- Jiji Plan
- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
- University of Nairobi
- MSc. Candidate
- JKUAT
- Technical University of Kenya
- Centre for Creative and Cultural Industries
- Kenyatta University
List of countries represented
- Canada
- China
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Montenegro
- Portugal
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