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Paris Reborn - How Paris Breaks All the Rules to Be the Best City for People
Paris is an incredible example of a city “getting it right” because of how it breaks all the rules to be the best city for all...
11 Agendas Resource Guides
We have created a resource guide for each of our 11 agendas to help you create a vision and plan for your city's future.
Sidewalk Resource Guide: Restoring Social Life in Our Communities
A guide to our best articles about creating better sidewalks to revive social life, build great neighborhoods, grow economic activity, and save the planet.
Addressing the Epidemic of Loneliness: Five Campaigns to Restore Social Life in Our Communities
We are in the middle of an epidemic of loneliness. These 5 campaigns to restore social life in our communities will get us out.
Creating the Streets and Sidewalks We Love - Shifting Our Focus From Cars to People
Paradigm-shattering change will happen when streets, sidewalks and intersections are transformed into community gathering spots through the simple act of giving human beings priority over motor vehicles.
Let's Turn Buildings Inside-Out
Bringing the inside out onto the sidewalk blurs the lines between public and private space, creating one dynamic, thriving urban ecosystem.
San Diego's Balboa Park: North America's Best Public Destination, A Pleasure Garden and Promenade
Ever changing, always amazing, where culture, science, and nature collide, Balboa Park is a fantastic destination home to more than 16 museums, performing arts venues, and other attractions.
Social Life - How it Helps Shape the Future of Our Communities
Social life describes an entire ecosystem of human interaction that gives us meaning — and makes the very existence of our economy, community, educational system, arts and culture, science, and innovation possible. Reflections of Jay Walljasper.
The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Placemaking Movement
Imagine if the places where we live were shaped for, and from, our social lives, re-imagined to make it easy for us to gather, shop, have fun, eat together, and be around people different from us. we would collectively have an impact on the health of our planet.
How Placemaking and Social Life are Helping Win the Climate War - 11 Ways
When it comes to addressing climate change in a way that actually moves the needle, the creativity and community-orientation that always defined the global Placemaking movement can be the foundation for the future of communities everywhere--and for our planet.
11 Transformative Agendas to Restore Social Life in Your Community
These transformative agendas can be a foundation for the future and a roadmap for communities to improve the "places" and after COVID, Build Back Better that can help us with ideas to shape our communities for the future.
What Happened to Small-Town Life and How to Recapture It
we found and learned from some truly wonderful examples of small-town social life, and it is these glimmers of hope that can lay the foundation for new attention to public spaces in smaller communities.
Paris, the World's Best Waterfront
Paris Plage challenges the idea of iconic design as a way for cities to show off. Instead centering the creation of iconic places, Paris Plage sets a high standard for other cities to emulate.
Our Global Catastrophes will be Solved by Local Communities
The problems we face are global in scale. Yet the most effective solutions can be found on the local level. The frontlines for social change today are in neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities.
Mexico City's Huerto Roma Verde - the Ultimate Gathering Place
A combination square, market, and event space, Huerto Roma Verde in Mexico City is built and managed by members of the community and is a perfect example of Placemaking.
Pike Place Market: The "Soul of Seattle"
Host of the first International Public Markets Conference, Pike Place Market is one of those special places that stays in your memory and that you love to keep coming back to because there's so much to explore.
Paris: A City Where Social Life Thrives
Paris - What a city made for Social Life Looks like. Paris invites us to express ourselves openly and honestly in public spaces.
What New Yorkers Lost: Dining Sheds That Supported Vibrant Sidewalk Life
NYC's dining sheds have created vibrant social hubs that have revitalized our sidewalks and public life. Now, we are on the brink of losing them and all the wonderful benefits they've brought.
How Placemaking Can Take Conservation and Historic Preservation to the Next Level: The Case of Woodstock, Vermont
Through the combination of conservation, preservation, and Placemaking, historic small towns like Woodstock, Vermont can be revitalized.
Reconnecting Central Park and Midtown Manhattan
Congestion pricing offers an opportunity to reconnect Midtown to Central Park, currently divided by a wall of traffic and terrible intersections.
Transformative Agendas (all topics)
Amenities
Highlighting a Community’s Identity by Creating Great Amenities
Architecture of Place
Turning Buildings Inside-Out
Public Markets
Using Markets to Bring Social Life Back Everywhere
Sidewalks
Starting with Sidewalks is the Key to Creating the Streets We Want
Squares
Bring Back the Public Square
Waterfronts
Capitalize on the Appeal of Waterfronts
Cities, Communities, and Places (all topics)
