Ten-step framework
The Urban Amenity Project created a ten-step framework for managing urban amenity. This is the framework used by the four councils who took part in the Urban Amenity Project trials.
- Define the urban amenity objective:
decide what you want to achieve. - Define the environment:
identify the physical environment you’ll work with. - Find out the characteristics of the community:
learn about the demographics of the people living in the environment. - Identify what urban amenity means locally:
consult with the community. - Identify the attributes:
analyse the results of your consultation. - Identify options for managing urban amenity:
assess what methods are available within council for creating a liveable urban environment. - Develop a monitoring strategy:
draw together council, community, and business activities to create a liveable urban environment. - Identify issues to monitor:
decide how you’ll measure the success of your strategy. - Develop indicators using a systematic process:
choose the threshholds, or benchmarks, for measuring your strategy. - Review and give feedback:
assess your work and share your results at each stage of the process.
Each of these steps is explained in detail in the Urban Amenity Project’s publication The Quality of our Built Environments: an Urban Amenity Guide. They also form the basis of the Ministry for the Environment’s shorter guide, Creating great places to live, work, play.
