Weekly Placemaking Round-Up | Nov 27 - Dec 4, 2016 - Project for Public Spaces

Posted December 5, 2016 - 09:03

Here is the latest issue this new weekly roundup of news, ideas, opportunities, and more - a curated list of content for placemakers by placemakers - from the Project for Public Spaces.

This Week's Highlights: Nov 27 - Dec 4, 2016

Six cities across the world that have transformed their highways into urban parks.
In cycling news, a Baltimore study shows how protected bike lane infrastructure improves safety and even saves lives, while Marrakech, Morocco has become home to Africa's first bike share program.
Backing up the Jane Jacobs truism that "new ideas need old buildings," a study of 50 US cities finds that neighborhoods with a mix of building ages harbor more entrepreneurship, and also remain more affordable and multicultural.
A look at the intense pressures facing independent retailers in New York and across the country, due to sky-high rents and retail behemoths like Amazon.
Examples of how to build community resilience from the ground up, by empowering them to forge their own path to resilience and sustainability.

More Placemaking Stories & Ideas

Nairobi just hosted its first ever Placemaking Week
A Tip of the Cap to Alexander von Humboldt (Missouri Life; hat tip to Arthur Mehroff)
Why Park Designers Need to Think More about Public Health (City Lab)

Opportunities

Due Dec. 5: Southwest Heart of the Community Grant
Due Dec. 8: Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
Due Jan. 6: FIRST@108 Public Art Award (hat tip to Julie Beech)
Due Jan. 31: EDRA Great Places Awards

Place of the Week

Crowds flocked to Celebration Square in Mississauga, ON, last weekend for its annual "Light Up the Square" event. Now a favorite destination, the square opened in 2011, five years after PPS helped develop a community plan as part of a city-wide placemaking campaign. Its festive winter programming—including a Holiday Market and carousel rides—is in full swing!

Have something to share? Please send your placemaking stories, news, job openings, grants, awards, calls for proposals, and events to [email protected] today. We'll be sure to give you a tip of the hat.

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by John Tibbitt - Dec 6 2016 - 09:37

It is good to see these useful summaries posted here. For readers information, lins to most of the stories included have already been posted on the PASCAL Twitter feed. You can be right up to date with these and much more by following @obspascal on Twitter (or Pascalobservatory on Facebook).

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