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Placemaking Monthly Newsletter - Project for Public Spaces

Posted January 9, 2017 - 09:41

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

2016: The Year Placemaking Went Global
For placemakers, 2016 saw a series of inspirational, global gatherings, amidst growing pressure on our agency as citizens in public space to support democracy. The past year made it clearer than ever that the future must be increasingly defined by local communities, and it needs to be organized at a global scale.

 

PPS's Top Ten Articles of the Year
From innovation districts to Pokémon GO!, a round-up of PPS's 10 most popular articles from 2016.

 

Investing in People and Places: Interview with Laura Trudeau
In light of her recent retirement from the Kresge Foundation as Director of the Detroit Program, Laura Trudeau and PPS’s Steve Davies sat down to discuss placemaking, philanthropy, and the transformation of Detroit’s public spaces. During her 15 years with Kresge, Trudeau was instrumental in revitalizing a number of Detroit's assets—including Campus Martius and Eastern Market—which are among PPS's most notable projects.


Democracy Still Lives in Public Spaces
Protests were alive and well in 2016, reminding us that public space is much more to citizens than just a place to sit down, eat, or shop. In fact, accessible public space is crucial, and central, to our democracy.

 

PPS Releases New Report: "The Case for Healthy Places: Improving Health through Placemaking"
The Case for Healthy Places offers evidence-based research, guidance, recommendations, and case studies to which health institutions, community organizations, and other partners can refer in supporting healthy placemaking initiatives.
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Place Talk

A square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture.
- Michael Kimmelman, New York Times
 
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.
- Jan Gehl, Architect
 

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
- Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian and activis
These are the places we remember most vividly, the places where serendipitous things happen, the places we tell stories about.
Submit your Great Public Space today!
Upcoming Events

PLACEMAKING: MAKING IT HAPPEN
(registration opens 1/15)
May 10-12th, 2017 | New York City

HOW TO CREATE SUCCESSFUL MARKETS
(registration opens 1/15)
June 16-17th, 2017 | New York Cit
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