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Mitigating climate impact with your community | Placemaking Round-Up

Posted June 30, 2024 - 15:10

This round-up 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.

Mitigating climate impact with your community
Credit: Side A Photography

With our upcoming webinar on July 11, Made By All: How to Engage Communities in Climate Adaptation, our team has had resilience on the mind. Over decades, Project for Public Spaces has worked with communities all over the world to implement practices that reflect the interconnectivity of climate resilience and social resilience. Placemaking needs to happen before and after a climate shock or disruption—before, to establish and strengthen connections and co-create better spaces, and after, to activate communications channels so everyone has essentials like food, water, and supplies. 

To start, you can read this Resilience Roundup to take inspiration from a few places around the world that already demonstrate this healthy “blend.”

When placemaking is done right, both physical and social systems hold up long-term. When destructive Winter Storm Uri swept the Texas region after our work through the 2020 Clarity Parks Project™ Program, the landscape stood strong and the community mobilized. 

Public markets also play a pivotal role in how a place can prepare for, and bounce back from, a disaster, as exemplified in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. 

And finally, be sure to sign up for our Climate Adaptation webinar to learn how to strengthen your community in the climate crisis. More details below!

Events & Opportunities
 Less than two weeks away!  July 11, 12-1p ET • As part of Project for Public Spaces' "Made by All" webinar series, join us for How to Engage Communities in Climate Adaptation to learn about different placemaking approaches in building consensus and support for the necessary transformation of our cities in responding to the climate crisis. 
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June 16 - Applications are NOW OPEN for Project for Public Spaces' Community Placemaking Grant with Walton Family Foundation to support three placemaking projects in Northwest Arkansas' Washington and Benton Counties. Sign up for our info session and apply today! Deadline is July 15.
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Do you have an event or opportunity you would like to share? Email [email protected].

Public Space News

NYC's Chief Public Realm Officer shares 15 ways NYC is improving public spaces, including establishing a Public Space Academy to provide technical assistance and resources to public space partners. The plan focuses on making resources more attainable, such as open street permits by standardizing agreements and lowering insurance requirements. (NYC.gov)

An art Installation titled, "The Wabash Lights," will light up the underside of Chicago's L tracks, with prompts made by pedestrians. In this upcoming art installation, the artist will invite the public to activate 50-foot stretches of custom-built LEDs by scanning QR codes. (Chicago Magazine)

Queer urban design is less about functionality and more about nurturing the human spirit. Incorporating queer urbanism also requires involving queer people "at all levels of planning," including hiring queer planners and centering their voices. (ArchDaily)

Large weekly exchanges—sometimes involving cheese—are the way to your neighbor's heart! In a rapidly growing movement to reclaim cities through hyperlocal neighborliness, one group in Paris is aiming to increase interaction between neighbors from five times daily to 50 times a day. (The New York Times)
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