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Last call for our Streets as Places training | Placemaking Weekly

Posted September 20, 2020 - 07:26

This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces [1] connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

Last Call for our Reimagining Streets as Places Training [2]
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There are only five days left before registration closes for our Reimagining Streets as Places [2] training course. So if you've always wanted to learn how placemaking applies to streets, or how the Dutch approach to mobility applies to public space, don't forget to register before September 25! Learn more. [2]

More Events & Opportunities


Sep. 21 • Free Conference: The Art of City Building [3], featuring PPS board member Kimberly Driggins

Sep. 30 • Webinar: Don’t Just Tick the Box, Think Outside It: Reimagining Public Engagement in Parks and Public Spaces [4], Park People 

Oct. 1 • Call for Proposals: EDRA52Detroit: Just Environments [5], Environmental Design Research Association

Oct. 5 • Webinar: Open streets or equitable cities: Who will write urbanism’s next chapter? [6] Park People

Oct. 9 • Call for Proposals: Winter Places: A Design Competition for Winter Placemaking [7], BenchCo

Oct. 31 • Survey: Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers Markets [8], Farmers Market Coalition

Video Now Available: Does Planning Care about Black Lives? [9], plenary panel from Walk/Bike/Places conference

Missed any of our webinars on COVID-19 and public space? Watch the videos on our Events page. [10]

From the Blog
How an Atlanta Park is Connecting People to Housing through Place-Based Social Service Provision [11]
August 26, 2020

Sneak Peak: Mobycon on the Dutch Approach to Streets as Places [12]
August 21, 2020

Restoring the Joy of Parks in Communities Impacted by Natural Disasters with the Makers of Claritin® [13]
July 31, 2020

Public Space News

Winter Is Coming. But don’t write off the darkest season just yet. Even with colder weather and shorter days, it’s still possible to plan for pandemic-safe life outdoors (CityLab [14]). Have ideas of your own on how to adapt? Check out this new winter placemaking ideas competition [7] from our friends at BenchCo.

The Soft Side of Displacement: Why do low-income residents oppose development even when displacement risk is low? There’s more than one way to be excluded from your community (Shelterforce [15]).

Toward the Six-Foot City: The pandemic is transforming how Americans use public libraries, parks, and streets—and it's depriving vulnerable people of space when they need it most (Insider [16]).

The Myth of Concensus: Public meetings often disprove the notion that communities have a unified stance on any issue. With this in mind, researcher Jeremy Levine argues that we must move past trying to find consensus and focus on uplifting the most marginalized voices (Shelterforce [17]).

Sociable Distancing Strikes Back: What are architects and urban planners foreseeing as people cautiously gather? Streets “curated” for various uses and dynamic cityscapes that both advance wellness and knit communities together (New York Times [18]).

Placemaking Playbook

Here's a roundup of 10 inspiring placemaking ideas from the week:

  1. A silo-busting resident-led design initiative that remade a community center in Toronto, ON (Brookings [19]) 
  2. Seven grassroots strategies to empower urban communities (Planetizen [20])
  3. A “parks after dark” program that adapted to the pandemic in Los Angeles (OpenSpace [21])
  4. A toolbox for remaking streets for kids during COVID-19 (Planetizen [22])
  5. A kayak church enables safe gatherings in Pennsylvania (RNS [23])
  6. The astounding world of activity under Tokyo’s elevated railways (CityLab [24])
  7. A group of figure skaters that swapped indoor ice rinks for outdoor pavement (New York Times [25])
  8. The pedestrian railings causing a political uproar in Hong Kong (CityLab [26])
  9. A day at the park: Eleven stories about how public spaces become a part of us (Park People [27])
  10. The secret to success for pedestrian malls that have survived since the ‘70s (Fast Company [28])

New Spanish Translation:
La transformación más ligera, rápida y barata del espacio publico [29]
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La calidad de un espacio público siempre ha sido mejor definida por las personas que lo utilizan. El creciente éxito de los proyectos ligeros, rápidos y baratos en todo el mundo, son una prueba de que las iniciativas costosas y laboriosas no son las únicas, ni las más efectivas formas de llevar energía y vida al espacio público de una comunidad. Lee mas. [29]
 

¡Feliz Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana [30]!

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[1] https://www.pps.org/
[2] https://www.pps.org/events/reimagining-streets-as-places
[3] https://www.artofcitybuilding.ca/
[4] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reimagining-public-engagement-in-parks-and-public-spaces-tickets-117798866581
[5] https://www.edra.org/general/custom.asp?page=edra52
[6] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/who-will-write-urbanisms-next-chapter-tickets-117797111331
[7] https://benchconsulting.co/winter-places/
[8] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpS_4eqHte3rq3aU5XRGoMrC1IG4MSEbKCAx7Ywz_dNGo88g/viewform
[9] https://www.pps.org/events/does-planning-care-about-black-lives
[10] https://www.pps.org/events
[11] https://www.pps.org/article/how-an-atlanta-park-is-connecting-people-to-housing-through-place-based-social-service-provision
[12] https://www.pps.org/article/sneak-peek-mobycon-on-the-dutch-approach-to-streets-as-places
[13] https://www.pps.org/article/restoring-the-joy-of-parks-in-communities-impacted-by-natural-disasters-with-the-makers-of-claritin
[14] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/how-to-prepare-for-a-coronavirus-winter
[15] https://shelterforce.org/2020/09/02/why-do-low-income-residents-oppose-development-even-when-displacement-risk-is-low/
[16] https://www.insider.com/how-public-space-will-change-after-pandemic-class-race-inequality-2020-9
[17] https://shelterforce.org/2020/09/04/community-consensus/
[18] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/arts/design/architecture-urban-planning-coronavirus.html
[19] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/09/14/how-a-community-led-design-initiative-in-toronto-is-redefining-neighborhood-revitalization-from-the-bottom-up/
[20] https://www.planetizen.com/node/110506
[21] https://www.nrpa.org/blog/parks-after-dark-in-motion-meeting-community-needs-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/
[22] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/09/14/how-to-remake-streets-for-kids-during-covid-19/
[23] https://religionnews.com/2020/09/04/kayak-church-gathers-pennsylvania-church-in-person-and-on-the-water-amid-pandemic/
[24] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-10/what-the-world-can-learn-from-life-under-tokyo-s-rail-tracks
[25] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/arts/dance/ice-theater-of-new-york-on-pavement.html
[26] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/hong-kong-s-much-hated-pedestrian-fences-won-t-die
[27] https://parkpeople.ca/2020/06/22/a-day-at-the-park-the-series-about-how-city-parks-shape-us/
[28] https://www.fastcompany.com/90549564/the-secret-to-revitalizing-urban-downtowns
[29] https://www.pps.org/article/la-transformacion-mas-ligera-rapida-y-barata-del-espacio-publico
[30] https://hispanicheritagemonth.gov/
[31] https://www.pps.org/donate
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