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• Project for Public Spaces - Placemaking for Communities   

• Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit planning, design and educational organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities. Our pioneering Placemaking approach helps citizens transform their public spaces into vital places that highlight local assets, spur rejuvenation and serve common needs. 

• Diigo tags: urban design architecture placemaking community planning urban planning sustainability thinktank public policy public space community design planning urbanism public environment activism

• What is Placemaking? - Project for Public Spaces New

• WHAT IF WE BUILT OUR COMMUNITIES AROUND PLACES? As both an overarching idea and a hands-on approach for improving a neighborhood, city, or region, Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. Strengthening the connection between people and the places they share, Placemaking refers to a collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value. More than just promoting better urban design, Placemaking facilitates creative patterns of use, paying particular attention to the physical, cultural, and social identities that define a place and support its ongoing evolution.

• Diigo Tags: Placemaking, urbanism, community, community empowerment, Sustainability, cities, article

• Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking - Project for Public Spaces

• Building inclusive, healthy, functional, and productive cities is perhaps the greatest challenge facing humanity today, and there are no easy solutions. A key part of the puzzle, though, lies right at the heart of the world’s urban areas: its public spaces. Here are ten ways you can help strengthen the social fabric of your community and jump-start economic development by creating and sustaining healthy public spaces.

• Diigo Tags: placemaking, cities, PPS

• Agenda Spotlight: Placemaking and Health - Project for Public Spaces

• There is growing evidence showing that place impacts people’s health on multiple scales. From obesity and chronic disease to depression, social isolation, and increased exposure to environmental toxins and pollutants, the world faces very different health challenges today than it has in the past, and many of these challenges are directly related to how our public spaces are designed and operated.

• Diigo Tags: health, Healthy Communities, placemaking, healthcare, PPS

• Equity and Inclusion: Getting Down to the Heart of Placemaking - Project for Public Spaces

• Placemaking, a collaborative process by which we (residents, architects, activists, community leaders and planners alike) shape our public realm together, is fundamentally about inclusion and shared community ownership.

• Diigo Tags: equity, inclusion, PPS, placemaking, Economic, heart, economic development, community empowerment

• Architecture of Place: Buildings that Work for People

• Some may be surprised to hear PPS echoing a version of the modernist mantra “form ever follows function” (see principle 9), but it’s important for us to remember what that phrase is really all about. When it was first coined by Louis Sullivan, it was a humanist idea: that the form of a building should serve first and foremost the human uses that animate it. But over time, as Jane Jacobs observed, the idea of function underwent a “drift from humanism to gimmickry.”

• Diigo Tags: architecture, place, buildings, PPS, placemaking, Sustainability, governance

• Placemaking Leadership Forum Videos 2016

• Diigo Tags: youtube, cities, innovation, community empowerment, sustainability, governance, collaboration

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• Project for Public Spaces | 26 Ways to Make Great Places

• E.F. Schumacher (author of Small is Beautiful) offered timeless advice about how to boost our communities, “Perhaps we cannot raise the wind. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”Here’s a handy list of ways you can capture the breeze in the place you call home. And we’re sure you’ll discover more ideas of your own.
• Diigo Tags: Article, placemaking

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