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Registration now open for Placemaking Training | Placemaking Round-Up

Posted June 18, 2023 - 17:39

This round-up 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.

Register for Placemaking: Making it Happen (Online Training)

Calling all placemaking champions! Registration is now open for our popular Placemaking: Making it Happen online training, which takes place September 5-21. Experience multiple sessions that dive into Project for Public Spaces' essential tools and principles for improving public spaces together with local communities. The early rate ends on July 20th at 11:59 PM ET.

By participating in this professional development course, you'll learn how to translate a community's vision for an outdoor site into a concrete plan while harnessing the power of Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper transformations. Our expert instructors will guide you through each step of the process, providing practical examples and solutions to common challenges. Learn more.
 

From the Blog
Uses & Activities: How to Create Multi-Purpose Places
June 2, 2023 • by Katherine Peinhardt

How Toronto’s Public Markets Are Integrating Equity, Inclusion, and Reconciliation
April 27, 2023

Explore Three Emerging Market Trends at the 11th International Public Markets Conference
April 5, 2023 
 

Events & Opportunities
Save the Date: We're excited to share Project for Public Spaces' fall line-up of online training courses:

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

Public Space News
Toronto Announces Public Markets Week. Last week, Project for Public Spaces hosted the 11th edition of its International Public Markets Conference in Toronto. The event brought together over 300 leaders from the world of public markets and inspired Toronto to designate the second week of June as Public Markets Week. This will be an opportunity to celebrate the city's more than 100 markets and bring attention to all of their benefits. (City of Toronto)
Participants at the 11th International Public Markets Conference in Toronto.
 
Ushering in Queer Urbanism. A recent article by Aaron Greiner explores the concept of Queer Urbanism, which aims to create inclusive and welcoming public spaces for queer people. Queer Urbanism emphasizes the need for a new framework that centers queer identities in urban development and challenges heteronormative assumptions. It also proposes practical steps for planners to incorporate Queer Urbanism, including involving queer individuals in planning processes and creating flexible spaces that meet diverse needs. (Planning Magazine)

New Summer Streets in NYC. This summer, New York City is transforming roughly 20 miles of its streets into car-free open spaces. The idea is to give New Yorkers across all five boroughs a "collective front yard" where they can gather and enjoy free programming. The program seeks to encourage people to meet their neighbors and provide local small businesses with more foot traffic among other benefits. (amNY)
 

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

  • A San Antonio park is bringing in goats to help clear overgrowth (KTSA)
  • Paris is diversifying the city's trees with more more heat-resistant species (CityLab)
  • A new eco-forward public toilet boosts a market in Uttarakhand, India (Design Boom)
  • Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, pilots closing some of its streets to traffic to free up more public space (WFYI)
  • Syracuse, New York, explores tearing down a highway in favor of a pedestrian-friendly avenue (New York Times)

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