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Hack>Tinker>Analyze>Design:
How Short-Term Placemaking Experiments Transformed Philadelphia's University City
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University City District (UCD) is not your usual Business Improvement District. While this Philadelphia district management organization was founded 20 years ago to provide public maintenance and safety services, its approach to community and economic development has expanded significantly over time to provide transportation services, host signature events, support neighborhood jobseekers and businesses, and to design, build, and maintain public spaces.
In this guest post on the PPS blog, University City District's Nate Hommel and Alissa Weiss reflect on what they've learned—and the community spaces that have emerged—from years of “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper" placemaking experiments. |
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Future doctors in Philadelphia are learning how to think like city planners, thanks to a new hybrid university program at Jefferson that combines medical training with design classes. Launched in 2015 at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, JeffDESIGN focuses on a broad range of design applications aimed at impacting real people’s health, from 3D printing that will help improve surgery to redesigning the physical space of hospitals. Most importantly, it’s about exploring the ways infrastructure, community, and the built environment can have a positive impact on health. (NextCity)
Can trust-building and community engagement battle a rising tide in Louisiana? To date, the Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Project is the only government-funded climate change relocation in the country—and a test case for more to come. As “omnipresent floodwaters” threaten the housing and accessibility of the island, local members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw band of Native Americans have become " America’s first climate refugees." While a new town is being planned for their relocation, questions of vulnerability, economic vitality, and lifestyle continue to factor large in the process. ( CityLab)
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More Placemaking Stories & Ideas
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Walk/Bike/Places 2018 is coming up this year in New Orleans!
Submit your proposals before February 2
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Events and Opportunities
- CFP: Friends of Congress Square Park (Due: January 31, 2018)
- Grant: National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund (Deadline to submit LOI: January 31, 2018)
- CFP: Walk/Bike/Places 2018 (Deadline: February 2, 2018)
- Conference: UN-Habitat World Urban Forum, Cities 2030 (Kuala Lumpur, February 7-13, 2018)
- Call for Applications: Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) Workshop: Rural Communities Facing Design Challenges (Application Deadline: February 16, 2018)
- Call for Applications: State of the Art Transportation Training, T4America Creative Placemaking Workshops (Deadline: February 23, 2018)
- Call for Submissions: EDRA 2018 Great Places Awards (Deadline: February 26, 2018)
- Speaker Series: "Placemaking as a Tool of Economic Development" with Ethan Kent, Montgomery County Planning Department (Silver Spring, MD: February 28, 2018)
- CFP: Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) Initiative (Deadline: March 30, 2018)
- Conference: 2nd Annual Complete Streets Conference, "Intersections: Creating Culturally Complete Streets" (Nashville, TN: April 3-4, 2018)
- Conference & CFP: 55th International Making Cities Livable (Ottawa, Canada: May 14-18, 2018)
- PPS Training: How to Create Successful Markets (NYC, June 1-2, 2018)
- PPS Training: Placemaking: Making It Happen (NYC, Coming Soon, Spring 2018 )
- Conference: EDRA49, "Social Equity by Design" (Oklahoma City, OK: June 6-9, 2018)
- Conference: Walk/Bike/Places 2018 (New Orleans, LA: September 16-19, 2018)
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