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Placemaking Monthly Newsletter | Our Top Ten Blog Posts from 2018

Posted January 7, 2019 - 10:39

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.

As we enter a new year, we at Project for Public Spaces are looking back at our best 2018 articles. Check out our roundup of last year's most-read articles!
 

More from the Project for Public Spaces blog:
2018: A Year of Transformation and Growth
Place, People, and Possibility: Announcing the Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking
Taking Back Main Street in Hailey, Idaho
Placemaking Takes Root in China
  • Transformative Placemaking: Expanding Opportunities for People and Places (Brookings)
  • 2018 Was the Year of the Aspirational Park (CityLab)
  • New anti-homeless architecture: Seattle uses bike racks to block rough sleepers (Guardian Cities)
  • 'Ingenious' fix for Japan's empty houses - homes for single moms (Place)
  • D.C.’s Downtown Was a Public Bathroom Desert. That Could Soon Change. (CityLab)
  • Game off! Why the decline of street hockey is a crisis for our kids (Guardian Cities)
  • Placemaking in Economic Development (Medium)

 

“The development of an informal public life depends on people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus.” 

— Ray Oldenburg
Hotel de Ville, Paris, France:
A great example of winter public space activation, the Hotel de Ville in Paris has a yearly ice skating rink that draws in visitors and locals, alike. While enjoying this cold-weather activity, ice skaters can connect with the deep sense of history in the space; a site of countless historic speeches and rallies over the centuries. 
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