What is placemaking?
Placemaking is creating great public places, together. It is a community-led process inspiring inclusive and thoughtful planning, design, and creative use of community spaces. Placemaking is grassroots community development, celebrating the love of, and encouraging the stewardship of, local places.
Why community engagement?
Community engagement provides people with opportunities to be a part of creating and shaping their community. It assumes that local people are the experts of a place, offering essential ideas, inspiration, skills, and knowledge for improving places which resonate with a community's values and interests.
ABOUT
Claire Tebbs, Principal
Claire Tebbs is a seasoned community planner and educator. She is passionate about building creative, inclusive communities where people feel connected and a part of the places they are in. Claire has been involved in rural and urban sustainable community planning and design, and community and youth engagement in both the US and Canada for the past 20 years.
Claire is a member of the American Planning Association and its Northern New England chapter (NNECAPA). She maintains professional certification through the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Claire holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Education from the University of Vermont. She hails from the UK and lives in Vermont with her family, whom she adores.