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. In this edition,  as residents, designers, and policymakers adapt public spaces to face the threat of COVID-19 and its social and economic fallout, success will depend a great deal on our ability to experiment, observe, and learn. So what better time to revisit the work of trailblaizing public space researcher and PPS mentor, William H. Whyte? This Thursday, join Project for Public Spaces staff for a free watch party of Whyte's influential 1980 documentary, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Register now.

The current pandemic reveals contrasting approaches from governments and leaders to keep societies afloat. What we know for sure is that it is time to reflect on how we can achieve a more resilient and sustainable future, instead of returning back to the norms we were accustomed to pre-COVID-19. Therefore, for the past month, we have been sitting down with experts to discuss how cities are coping and what measures can be set in motion to improve our future urban environment.