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, Project for Public Spaces is partnering with Claritin® this year on the Clarity Parks Project™, an initiative that will improve public spaces in three communities around the U.S. that have been impacted by natural disasters: Republic Square in Austin, Texas; Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans, Louisiana; and H.A. Chapman Centennial Green in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This edition of the PIMA Bulletin is guest-edited by researchers at RMIT University, Australia, and presents a snapshot of work being undertaken by members and associates of the European Union-funded Jean Monnet Network, which is based in the European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University. The Jean Monnet Network brings together researchers from the University of Glasgow, Australian National University, Nanyang Technical University in Singapore and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, policy think-tanks and Non-Government Organisations who share a primary interest in enhancing the contribution of the European Union to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Asia Pacific.