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Placemaking and the Evolution of Innovation Districts | Placemaking Monthly

Posted August 4, 2019 - 13:22

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, a new report by the Global Institute on Innovation Districts estimates that since the year 2000, over 100 innovation districts have sprung up across the world

This week, stay tuned to the 3rd International Placemaking Week website for the release of the conference program!
A new report by the Global Institute on Innovation Districts estimates that since the year 2000, over 100 innovation districts have sprung up across the world, and perhaps more than any previous research on the subject, this new report recognizes the important role that placemaking must play in this increasingly popular economic development strategy. However, it also contains some insights that may challenge placemakers to evolve themselves.

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  • Lizarding to lingering: how humans really behave in public spaces (Guardian Cites)
  • The future of the city doesn't have to be childless (Brookings Metro)
  • Can the Internet Save the Department Store? (Wall Street Journal)
  • How a Washington, DC, park can serve as a model for bridging social and economic divides (Brookings Metro)
  • Death to Livability! (CityLab)

“The new innovation districts will be more like the market districts of a hundred years ago than the financial district of fifty years ago.”

— Ramon Marrades, Chief Strategy Officer, La Marina de València
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