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,  to draw attention to the potential of public spaces and lighter, quicker, cheaper placemaking in Nairobi, Kenya, the Changing Faces Competition (CFC) challenged over 100 community groups to transform neglected spaces into vibrant, safe, and healthy community places.

Today PASCAL inaugurates a new programme directed at the recovery of communities from the coronavirus epidemic.  The term “community” has been used a lot in the media in reference to the social context in which people are at higher risk of getting infected. We are interested in “community” as the social context in which people cope with the pandemic in ways that make the places where they live stronger and more resilient.