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When Project for Public Spaces and STIPO hosted the 2nd International Placemaking Week in Amsterdam, we were amazed by the city's "broedplaatsen," over 60 cultural incubators that were created through a municipal program to reuse empty buildings and spaces.
In this guest post from Dutch placemaker Rinske Brand, she synthesizes what she learned from speaking to twenty leaders behind cultural hubs across the Netherlands—both formal ones like the broedplaatsen and naturally occurring ones, too—about the dos and don'ts of making places for culture and creativity. Read more.
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THIS TUESDAY, Mar. 9, 2021 • Webinar: Making Communities Livable for People of All Ages: Special Guest AARP
Danielle Arigoni and Mike Watson from AARP Livable Communities provide an introduction to their Community Challenge grant program and how your community can apply.
June 15-18, 2021 • Conference: Walk/Bike/Places
North America's premier conference for walking, biking and placemaking professionals is back! Our early bird registration rate ends March 29, 2021. Learn more.
More Events & Opportunities
Mar. 9, 2021 • Grant: Canada Healthy Communities Initiative, Community Foundations of Canada
Mar. 12, 2021 • Request for Applications: Rural Design Workshops & Learning Cohorts, Citizens' Institute on Rural Design
Mar. 15-18, 2021 • Conference: InTents: The Farmers Market Conference 2021, featuring PPS's Kelly Verel and Kurt Wheeler on creating local conditions to build better markets
Mar. 19, 2021 • Conference Session: Streets for People: How a Pandemic and Advanced Mobility Are Changing Our Relationship to the Street, Urbanism Next Virtual Forum 2021 featuring PPS's Alessandra Galletti
April 18-25, 2021 • Global Event: Placemake Earth Challenge, PlacemakingUS (orientation is March 12)
Apr. 30, 2021 • Grant: Asphalt Art Initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies
May 19-21, 2021 • Conference: CNU 29. Design for Change, Congress for the New Urbanism
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NYC 25x25. This week, Project for Public Spaces joined a group of more than 80 advocacy groups and nonprofits asking the next generation of city leaders to reallocate 25% of streets currently used by vehicles into other purposes by 2025. (Gothamist)
When Placemaking Meets Infrastructure. President Biden ran on a platform of "Build Back Better, " and the new administration seems focused on delivering much-needed infrastructure across the country. But what role should design, programming and management play in this agenda? (New Civil Engineer)
The 15-Minute City? Hold on a Minute. Urban experts warn that a popular post-pandemic design principle may not translate well from Europe to North America, and could exacerbate inequality. (CityLab)
As Canadian equity-based placemaker Jay Pitter argues, imposing the much-celebrated idea of the "15-minute city" on American cities "doesn't take into account the histories of urban inequity, intentionally imposed by technocratic and colonial planning approaches, such as segregated neighborhoods, deep amenity inequity and discriminatory policing of our public spaces.”
Traffic Noise: A Not-So-Silent Killer. In the last decade, a growing body of research has revealed air and road-traffic noise as a major environmental stressor and connected it to heightened risks of cardiovascular ailments. (The Atlantic)
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Here is a roundup of 10 inspiring placemaking ideas from the week:
- The case for a duty to the city: If you own property, you should not leave it empty (CityLab)
- A wintertime light and sound installation to revive Montreal's arts and culture district (Azure)
- A report card on the state of placemaking in Singapore (Design and Architecture)
- A new 10-mile-long park under the train tracks of Miami (Fast Company)
- An architect creating projects that reclaim a uniquely Sámi sense of place (Azure)
- A "Magic" new park renovation in Los Angeles (Urbanize LA)
- Five ways the Biden administration could improve diversity outdoors (Atmos)
- The retiring curator of Portland's inspirational "random bike art" museum (Bike Portland)
- Five lessons from New York City Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver (Azure)
- A conversation about Jane Jacobs and gentrification, featuring PPS's Nate Storring (Urban Omnibus)
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