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A Market Strategy for Every City | Placemaking Weekly

Posted October 10, 2021 - 08:55

This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

A New Resource for Market Leaders
We now take it for granted that most cities of a certain size have an arts and culture strategy to support their local community of artists and arts organizations. But forty years ago, this practice barely existed. Imagine for a moment: What if forty years from now, we could take it for granted that every city had a public market strategy to support their ecosystem of public market managers, vendors, food producers, and distributors?

We’re thrilled to be partnering with HealthBridge Foundation of Canada, and Slow Food International to work towards this vision by launching a new resource—marketcities.org—for public market practitioners featuring research, guides, events, and a new biweekly newsletter! Read more.
 

More from the Blog


Getting Kids Outside for Better Health with the Makers of Claritin®
September 29, 2021 • by Priscilla Posada

Flyover Park: Empowering the Next Generation of City Builders in Calgary
June 25, 2021 • by Ximena González

Social Alchemy: Jim Walker on Placemaking as Utopian Experiment
May 12, 2021 • by Jim Walker
 

Events & Opportunities
October 1 - November 1, 2021 • Call for Proposals: Community Activator Program Grants, My Main Street

October 21, 2021 • Perspectives and Practices on Making Green Spaces BIPOC Inclusive, Park People  

November 4, 2021 • Call for Proposals: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation   
 

Have an event or opportunity you would like to share? Email us at [email protected].
 

Public Space News
William H. Whyte’s "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" is available again! William H. Whyte’s classic 1980 study of New York’s plazas, "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces," started a revolution in urban planning and design. We're thrilled to make this important book available internationally for $35. (Amazon)

Surveillance & Tourism. In a misguided effort to make Venice more livable for locals, the city offers to track tourists via surveillance cameras as "a way for officials to spot crowds they want to disperse." Locals worry the measures will actually serve to completely remove the city's charms. (New York Times)

Chicago's Anti-Biennial. This year's Chicago Architecture Biennial has gone outdoors in light of the ongoing pandemic. The new focus takes architects out of their usual surroundings and into more than a dozen site-specific installations in underutilized lots in Chicago’s South and West sides, which have been empty because of disinvestment in those communities. (Bloomberg)

Placemaking Playbook
As always, here's a roundup of placemaking projects and ideas that inspired us this week:

  1. Philly is giving its residents 1,000 free trees to plant this season (Next City);

  2. A university in Toronto acknowledges the land's indigenous history with a sculpture (Azure);

  3. Denmark is giving old wind turbines a second life as bike shelters (My Modern Met);

  4. Here's a planning guide anyone can use to plan a zero-waste event (Park People);

  5. Activists in Indonesia make a museum out of plastic to bring attention to the climate crisis (Washington Post).

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