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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 [1] connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.
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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 [2]!
 

More from the Project for Public Spaces blog:
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2018: A Year of Transformation and Growth [3]
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Place, People, and Possibility: Announcing the Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking [4]
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T [6]aking Back Main Street in Hailey, Idaho [5]
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Placemaking Takes Root in China [7]
  • Transformative Placemaking: Expanding Opportunities for People and Places (Brookings [8])
  • 2018 Was the Year of the Aspirational Park (CityLab [9])
  • New anti-homeless architecture: Seattle uses bike racks to block rough sleepers (Guardian Cities [10])
  • 'Ingenious' fix for Japan's empty houses - homes for single moms (Place [11])
  • D.C.’s Downtown Was a Public Bathroom Desert. That Could Soon Change. (CityLab [12])
  • Game off! Why the decline of street hockey is a crisis for our kids (Guardian Cities [13])
  • Placemaking in Economic Development (Medium [14])

 

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

— Ray Oldenburg
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Hotel de Ville, Paris, France [15]:
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. 
Nominate a Great Public Space here [16]!
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[4] https://www.pps.org/article/place-people-and-possibility-announcing-the-bass-center-for-transformative-placemaking
[5] https://www.pps.org/article/taking-back-main-street-in-hailey-idaho
[6] https://www.pps.org/article/wandering-the-wuhan-waterfront-hankou-jiangtan-park
[7] https://www.pps.org/article/china-placemaking
[8] https://www.brookings.edu/events/transformative-placemaking-expanding-opportunities/
[9] https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/12/new-urban-park-design-2018-landscape-architecture/578827/
[10] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/24/anti-homeless-architecture-seattle-bike-racks-block-rough-sleepers
[11] http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=ced83a67-d1d3-4e6e-b71a-f83a0a1fbc5c
[12] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/washington-dc-where-bathroom-homeless-law-toilet-business/578587/
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[14] https://medium.com/@nimbleground/placemaking-in-economic-development-da0749ea5132
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