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Walk/Bike/Places Program Now Available | Placemaking Weekly

Posted July 7, 2020 - 07:54

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, we announce that the program for Walk/Bike/Places Online is now live!.

Walk/Bike/Places Program Now Available

The program for Walk/Bike/Places Online is now live! Although we aren't convening in person this year, there will be many opportunities to connect virtually. The program features over 40 breakout sessions and activities that relate to our theme of implementation. The sessions will also fall under seven different tracks: infrastructure, planning, place, health, transit, advocacy, and excellence. Learn more.

More Events & Opportunities


Missed any of our past webinars on adapting to COVID-19 in public space? Watch recordings for free on our Events page.
 

From the Blog

Essential Places: Warren Logan on Open Streets Beyond Brunch and Bike Lanes


"We have to do better at engaging the community, not only when there’s a project, but in an ongoing conversation as friends or family where we can disagree but at least align on the principal goals."

In this interview, Warren Logan from the City of Oakland, California, talks about how he is striving toward equity in their respons to COVID-19 in public space by creating an ongoing community dialogue, treating tactical urbanism as a means to an end, and starting a unique new program focused on access to essential resources. Read more.

More from the Blog


Equitable Development During & After COVID-19: Five Takeaways
June 12, 2020 • by Nate Storring

Black Lives Matter
June 1, 2020

A Placemaker's Perspective from Wuhan
May 29, 2020 • an interview with Zheng Yue (郑玥) 

The Recovery Will Happen in Public Space
May 16, 2020 • by Phil Myrick
 

Placemaking in the News

Our news section is taking a break this week due to the 4th of July holiday in the United States. We will be back with a double dose next week!

Placemaking Playbook: In the meantime, here's a roundup of 8 recent innovative placemaking projects and ideas making headlines:

  1. A new idea book on design for distancing with help from Johns Hopkins (City of Baltimore)
  2. Reflections on the Americans with Disabilities Act on its 30th birthday (New Mobility)
  3. A lawn mowed into a social distancing checkerboard (Urban Gardens)
  4. The case for legalizing alcohol consumption in New York, NY public spaces (StreetsBlog)
  5. A park plan that stresses quality over quantity in San Diego, CA (Next City)
  6. A beach town reopening safely with the help of PPS in Salisbury, MA (The Daily News)
  7. A primer on queer space (Azure)
  8. A plan for more equitable open space in Vancouver, BC (TheCityFix)

Great Public Spaces

Tenri Station

Tenri, Nara, Japan

This multi-use rail station is home to a bicycle rental shop, a cafe, boutiques, an information kiosk, indoor and outdoor playing areas with play equipment like trampolines, and meeting spaces. The 6,000-square-meter plaza also includes multiple sculptural amphitheaters meant to evoke the area's 16,000-year-old tombs, known as "kofun," where emperors and empresses are thought to be buried. Read more.
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