Brooklyn - Social Life Project

A Tragedy and a Big Idea

Placemaking Resource Center: Creating organic and productive places for people to come together, reflect on the social life of their cities and communities, spark new ideas through conversations and case studies, and be inspired to take the social life of these places into their own hands

Architecture of Place

Community Discussion: Creating the Heart of Brooklyn — Brooklyn Borough Hall, Court House, Cadman Plaza down to Fulton Landing

This article is meant to help build a campaign around a concept for a promenade from Borough Hall doown to Dumbo and Fulton Landing — an idea that we first introduced in the New York Times in 2007. The concept has in part been carried forward by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership as

Italy

Capitalizing on the Appeal of Waterfronts: 11 of the Best

Of all the types of public spaces that exist, waterfronts are among the most strongly linked to the identity and history of a city. There could be no Stockholm without the harbor; no San Francisco away from the Bay; no Rio without its beaches.

Brooklyn

Always a Draft - Community Discussions: Montague Street Activation

Exploring significant opportunities for Montague Street starting at Bourough Hall Plaza and ending on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade Who we are: We set up the Placemaking Fund as the next part of a trajectory of the placemaking movement we started when we established and grew Project for Public Spaces into

Brooklyn

Three Iconic Waterfronts—Two of World's Best, and One that Fails Miserably

What Brooklyn (and everywhere else) can learn from Paris and Porto, Portugal

Paris

New York vs. Paris—Which is on the Right Track?

Neighborhood life in two great cities that are going opposite directions