PlaceMaking Archive
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Crowdsourced resource for innovative ‘legacy city’ placemaking: While cities that lost more than 50% of their population since their
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Defining a ‘piazza’, and why it’s not a ‘plaza: Why is it even important? The words plaza, place and piazza have
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What emerging generations really want: A piazza: As the 1600+ entries in this blog provide evidence for, emerging generations
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Form-based planning ‘OS’ key to knowledge economy: No graph better explains the evolution of the economy and placemaking better
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Car-free community proposed in South Carolina: If you’re passionate about walking, biking and living outside of the city,
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SF’s ‘parklets’ trade parking for people: If all continues to go well, San Francisco’s business and resident groups
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Placemaking primer for crowdsourcing places: If you’re going to crowdsource places for creatives, it’s pretty clear you
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Geneva’s pedestrian historic district: Geneva, Switzerland, central to United Nations relations (ie known as the ‘Peace
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Sense of community rises in down economy: It’s a fairly common phenomenon, when things are bad, people seek camaraderie.
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A piazza in Philadelphia!: Real estate developer Bart Blatstein definitely has Rome on the brain. While
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GOOD’s ‘complete street’ interactive graphic: What happens when the folks at Good Magazine, where the triple bottom
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PPS Top 10 Placemaking Trends: Project for Public Spaces (PPS), the leading resource for public placemaking, revealed
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Detroit’s downtown bright spot: There may not be a lot going right economically in Detroit, but
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Proscriptive code for creatives’ dream town?: We’ve looked at what a proscriptive code is, and examples of proscriptive
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A city’s DNA – proscriptive codes: In the previous entry, Cities today use ‘prescriptive’ codes, but what came
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Cities today use ‘prescriptive’ codes, but what came before that?: All cities have planning codes which predetermine street widths, building heights and
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New York City’s ‘World Class Streets’ vision: What happens when you combine one of the world’s premiere creative cities
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Planning’s’ Great Places in the U.S. 2008: There are few better authorities for comparing the thousands of neighborhoods, streets
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Real world ‘discussion forums: The online world centers around conversation, via discussion forums, chat rooms, comment
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NY ped plaza goes from plan to reality in 3 months: In May 2008 the NYC DOT (Department of Transportation) announced plans for
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Maryland’s first real piazza: How do you top Maryland’s first pedestrian-only street in several decades and
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NYC continues its pedestrian renaissance: Manhattan is on a roll – first there’s Summer Streets where major
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Best new European urban neighborhoods in the last 25 years: There really is no better model than Europe for walkable neighborhoods, so
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SF’s Ferry Building Marketplace inspires urban life: How do you breathe new life into a city waterfront? Check out
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Crowdsourcing architecture?: One principle that our crowdsource-based beta communities agree with is that ‘design
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Trendsetting cities, neighborhoods looking at pedestrian-only streets: Near the top of many progressive, creatives‘ lists one will find San
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Kansas City’s new outdoor ‘living room: It’s not a model for supporting local independent businesses, certainly not a
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PPS’s checklist for making great cities: Every once in a while a checklist is highly beneficial to remind