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Placemaking Monthly | Five Inspiring Public Spaces

Posted March 3, 2019 - 17:49

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.

For many of us at Project for Public Spaces, one of the best parts of our work is learning from countless talented placemakers around the world. Everywhere we go, there is always someone experimenting with new ideas in public space and pushing against the status quo. For nearly two decades, our user-generated Great Public Spaces database has served as an inspiration to these local placemakers. Check out this month's five stunning new entries!

 

More from the Project for Public Spaces blog:
The Key to Safe Streets: Five Cities Humanizing Street Design
Workshops Help Elevate Placemaking in San Antonio and San Diego
A New Vision for Hanoi's Wet Markets
From the Archive: Community Gardens as Places of Connection and Empowerment
 
  • We Need More People to Go by Bike: Meet Amsterdam’s Nine-Year-Old Junior Cycle Mayor (The Guardian)
  • Amazon Calls the Whole Thing Off (Planetizen)
  • Bike-Friendly Cities Should Be Designed for Everyone, Not Just Wealthy White Cyclists (The Conversation)
  • Paris Will Finally Let You Have a Little Fun in Public Parks (CityLab)
  • 5 Challenges and Solutions to Building Bike-Friendly Cities in Turkey (CityFix)
  • Wall Street, Seeking Big Tax Breaks, Sets Sights on Distressed Main Streets (New York Times)

“Each act of placemaking embodies a vision of who we are and offers a hope of who we want to be as individuals and as groups who share a place in the world.” 

— Linda H. Schneekloth and Robert G. Shibley in
Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities
Garden Ring | Moscow, Russia

The Garden Ring, which consists of 20 streets and has a total length of 15.6 km, was created two centuries ago as a beautification project of Moscow's city center. In the 1930s, under Stalin, it became an aggressively car-dominated zone. Today, as part of Moscow's massive Moya Ulitsa ("My Street") program, gardens and greenery have returned to one of the city's major thoroughfares. Read more here!
Nominate a Great Public Space here!
 


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The 2018 Revised Edition of How to Turn a Place Around, PPS's comprehensive guide to placemaking, with new tools and case studies, a vibrant updated design, and a brand new section on how to run a successful placemaking process. Order now!
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