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Placemaking Monthly Newsletter - Project for Public Spaces

Posted March 7, 2017 - 06:36

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.
Project for Public Spaces
February Newsletter
This newsletter connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.
Ideas & Issues

Announcing Placemaking Week 2017: Join us this October in Amsterdam!

Building upon the momentum of last year’s successful event in Vancouver, Project for Public Spaces, in partnership with STIPO, City at Eye Level, Placemaking Plus and Pakhuis de Zwijger, are thrilled to announce Placemaking Week 2017, which will take place this Fall in Amsterdam on October 11-14, 2017.

 

 

This Must be the Place: Learning by Doing in Mexico City
In early 2016, with support from PPS and the Southwest Airlines Heart of the Community Program, the Lúgares Publicos team set out to better understand the life of Foro Lindbergh, in México City's Parque Mexico. They used all kinds of engagement activities to gather information from people in the Foro, encouraging them to share ideas about how to improve and activate the space. Read the whole story here (in English or Spanish), and be sure to check out the video!

 

 

The Placemaking Factor in Philanthropy and Funding
The successful development of grantmaking and philanthropy for environmental and social projects depends on how it deals with place and inclusion, explains PPS Fellow Maria Adebowale Schwarte. Here, she outlines six factors for ensuring that placemaking can disrupt the status quo in funding efforts.

 


Beers with Engineers: Round 2

Beers with Engineers is a forum in which planners, design professionals, and the public talk to transportation engineers about how to work together to improve our streets and strengthen our communities. PPS recently co-hosted this event at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in St. Louis, and we hope to see you in Seattle for the Congress for the New Urbanism conference this May for the next "round"!
 
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Place Talk

Great places need anchors...they need small areas that are full of activities and things to do. It turns out, what this place needed was a place.
- Guillermo Bernal of Lúgares Publicos, on the recent activations in Mexico City's Foro Lindbergh
 
 A focus on place enables one to come at challenges and opportunities from a different perspective, offering up almost limitless possibilities for innovation and creativity.
- Rip Rapson, President, The Kresge Foundation

 
These are the places we remember most vividly, the places where serendipitous things happen, the places we tell stories about.
Submit your Great Public Space today!
 
Upcoming Events

PLACEMAKING: MAKING IT HAPPEN
May 10-12th, 2017 | New York City

HOW TO CREATE SUCCESSFUL MARKETS
June 16-17th, 2017 | New York City

 
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