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New Webinar Recording on Achieving Social Impact in Public Space | Placemaking Round-Up

Posted April 24, 2022 - 07:07

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.

Achieving Social Impact in Public Space
Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans, Louisiana after a placemaking transformation.
A great public space has the potential to support health equity, address our homelessness crisis, and promote sustainability, among a wide array of other benefits. To take a deep dive into unlocking this potential through social impact, we hosted a webinar earlier this month featuring grantees, funders, and public space experts. The free recording is now available online and we hope you enjoy learning about the process of co-creation and how social impact partnerships can bring public spaces to life. Watch now.
 

Recent Blog Posts
Announcing New Co-Executive Directors Kelly Verel & Nate Storring
March 27, 2021

A (Market) Place for Everyone
February 22, 2022 • by Priscilla Posada

Thinking Beyond the Parks Department: A Q&A with Javier Otero Peña
January 14, 2022 • by Priscilla Posada
 

Events & Opportunities
April 25 • Register for Cafecito Online Meetup, PlacemakingUS

April 27 • Register for Public Spaces and Technology Webinar, Next City & Knight Foundation

May 6 - 8 • Participate in Jane's Walk NYC, Municipal Art Society of New York

Now through June 30 • Apply for the 2023-2025 Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards, Levitt Foundation

Have an event or opportunity you would like to share? Email us at [email protected].
 

Public Space News
A New Library Social Impact Project! It's been an honor to work on expanding the Shafter Library & Learning Center in Shafter, California with support from GAF. Over spring break, the library was already averaging over 250 visitors per day! This article explores why funding for public libraries in California leaves them vulnerable to closure and the effects this has on local families. (Ed Source)

An Equitable Approach to Sidewalk Trees. New York City's borough presidents are proposing a revival of the city's MillionTreesNYC initiative. In this interview, Navé Strauss, the Director of Street Tree Planting at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, speaks about the benefits of a more equitable tree canopy including diversifying the workforce doing the planting and locating trees in communities with higher rates of air pollution (Urban Omnibus).

An Ancient Approach to Outdated Monuments. Erin L. Thompson, the author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments, explores what the United States can learn from ancient societies about responding creatively to contentious monuments. She lists examples from ancient Mesopotamia to ongoing plans to melt-down Charlottesville's Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statute to create something new that unites people. (Slate)
 

Placemaking Playbook
As always, here's a roundup of placemaking projects and ideas that inspired us this week:

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