Introduction
BREDA – For four years the 23-year-old Ignaz Hameetman has been one of the driving forces behind the voluntary organisation I am Sonsbeeck .
I am Sonsbeeck fights for the eponymous park in the district called Boeimeer. The key points of this organization are to increase the biodiversity, maintain the park and to involve children in parks and nature.
Ignaz, student Urban Design, grew up in the Florisstraat, which is located near Sonsbeeckpark Breda. He started to work on Sonsbeeck park the moment Breda decided to replace shrubs and hedges for strips of plain grass. This would spare the town hall maintenance work and the park would be cheaper to maintain. Local residents started to speak their dismay because no one wanted the …show more content…
When the social cohesion is right people tend to stick around and are more likely to settle down in the neighbourhood.
When people are familiar with their neighbours they will automatically be more comfortable within the area. This is an important aspect for the quality of life. Intruders will be recognised sooner, neighbours can ask each other for help and there will be more people on the streets. To establish this they need to make contact first.
This can be achieved through citizen participation. While maintaining the neighbourhood and setting up projects the attending civilians will build a bond. There will be more interaction in the neighbourhood, through active work in the neighbourhood. One of the newer methods to let neighbourhoods bond is Place making, this concept will be explained in the next paragraph.
One of the risks are the people that don’t want to cooperate. These people miss out on the activities and won’t get to know their living area. This way they’ll be secluded from the new bonds their neighbours are starting to build. They will get socially isolated from their living …show more content…
These people chose not to participate in the activities and have the possibility to join in on the next activity. Some of these civilians aren’t committed to their living area. This could be because they aren’t planning on staying for long or because they have all their activities in other places, so they only use their homes for sleeping. People with a low income, no work or less education are less likely to participate in the set up activities. As long as there will be enough opportunities to join these people have their own choices to join or not to join. (Dekker, 2007)
Place making
Place making is supposed to strengthen the connection between people and the places they share. It inspires citizens to collectively reshape and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. People are supposed to collaborate through an creative process. They’ll brainstorm together and strengthen the social cohesion.
Place making promotes a better urban design, it defines a place and develops the natural evolution within the neighbourhood. Every district has its own style, place making tries to maintain and improve the identities within every
BREDA – For four years the 23-year-old Ignaz Hameetman has been one of the driving forces behind the voluntary organisation I am Sonsbeeck .
I am Sonsbeeck fights for the eponymous park in the district called Boeimeer. The key points of this organization are to increase the biodiversity, maintain the park and to involve children in parks and nature.
Ignaz, student Urban Design, grew up in the Florisstraat, which is located near Sonsbeeckpark Breda. He started to work on Sonsbeeck park the moment Breda decided to replace shrubs and hedges for strips of plain grass. This would spare the town hall maintenance work and the park would be cheaper to maintain. Local residents started to speak their dismay because no one wanted the …show more content…
When the social cohesion is right people tend to stick around and are more likely to settle down in the neighbourhood.
When people are familiar with their neighbours they will automatically be more comfortable within the area. This is an important aspect for the quality of life. Intruders will be recognised sooner, neighbours can ask each other for help and there will be more people on the streets. To establish this they need to make contact first.
This can be achieved through citizen participation. While maintaining the neighbourhood and setting up projects the attending civilians will build a bond. There will be more interaction in the neighbourhood, through active work in the neighbourhood. One of the newer methods to let neighbourhoods bond is Place making, this concept will be explained in the next paragraph.
One of the risks are the people that don’t want to cooperate. These people miss out on the activities and won’t get to know their living area. This way they’ll be secluded from the new bonds their neighbours are starting to build. They will get socially isolated from their living …show more content…
These people chose not to participate in the activities and have the possibility to join in on the next activity. Some of these civilians aren’t committed to their living area. This could be because they aren’t planning on staying for long or because they have all their activities in other places, so they only use their homes for sleeping. People with a low income, no work or less education are less likely to participate in the set up activities. As long as there will be enough opportunities to join these people have their own choices to join or not to join. (Dekker, 2007)
Place making
Place making is supposed to strengthen the connection between people and the places they share. It inspires citizens to collectively reshape and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. People are supposed to collaborate through an creative process. They’ll brainstorm together and strengthen the social cohesion.
Place making promotes a better urban design, it defines a place and develops the natural evolution within the neighbourhood. Every district has its own style, place making tries to maintain and improve the identities within every