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In a year where compounding crises fill our days with urgency, our recent Walk/Bike/Places
2020 conference offered a much-needed time to step back and reflect together on how placemaking and transportation planning can not just get things done, but do so inclusively, fairly, and sustainably.
While we couldn’t meet in person to discuss this year's theme of implementation, the virtual format gave participants a unique opportunity to share their own communities with each other. Read
the conference report.
Interested in joining us next year? Stay tuned for our Walk/Bike/Places 2021 call for proposals later this month.
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More Events & Opportunities
Oct. 14 • Webinar: The
Places People Make, Part 2: Charles T. Brown, MPA, LCI, 2nd annual Urban Design Lecture Series, EJB|DESIGNS
Oct. 20 • Webinar:
The
pivot toward parks: How can we sustain creative activation of our public spaces beyond the pandemic?, Park People
Oct. 22 • Webinar:
Healthy
parks and healthy people: A (not boring) conversation about the future of park investment, Park People
Oct. 27 • Webinar:
Downtown Rebound: Forecast, Opportunities, and Best Practices for the 2020 Holiday
Shopping Season, ULI Northwest Arkansas, featuring Project for Public Spaces’
Kelly Verel
Oct. 31 • Survey:
Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers Markets, Farmers Market Coalition
Missed any of our past virtual events on placemaking and public space? Watch
the videos on our Events page.
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From the Blog
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Public Space News
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Sprucing Up the Republic Square Oaks:
This week, landscaping and planting kicked off in Republic Square in Austin, TX, which was chosen earlier this summer by the Clarity Parks Project and Project for Public Spaces as one of three public spaces in cities that have been impacted by a natural disaster
to receive a $47,000 grant from the makers of Claritin. The grant will help enhance and protect the square’s historic Auction Oaks, as well as improve the comfort and image of the park with new landscaping, plantings and water-resilient features in the area
surrounding the park's celebrated trees (Patch).
A Jam without Traffic: San Francisco unveiled a new permit that aims to allow live, outdoor music and entertainment on a small scale during the pandemic. The JAM (Just Add Music) permit offers
businesses a way to book DJs, live music (without singing or wind instruments), dance, theater, comedy or film screenings with amplified sound in the city’s existing Shared Spaces locations, which allow outdoor activities while abiding by pandemic safety guidelines
(KQED).
Community Infrastructure Is Down, Violence Is Up: Research has connected community-based organizations and programs to the dramatic decline in violent crime in the U.S. since the 1990s. But the
pandemic has frayed all kinds of institutions and infrastructure that hold communities together, watch over streets, mediate conflicts, simply give young people something to do (New
York Time).
No Parking, No Problem: Scores of cities around the world dramatically shifted their policies to encourage outdoor dining in the street, which public health officials say is much safer than gathering
indoors—and the typical frustration over parking changes has simply not materialized (NPR).
A Monumental Undertaking: The Mellon Foundation announced that it would put $250 million toward creating new monuments across the U.S., as well as relocating and rethinking existing ones. This
comes as protestors have challenged or outright removed monuments around the world for their connection to ongoing legacies of systemic racism (New
York Times).
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Placemaking Playbook
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Here's a roundup of 10 inspiring placemaking ideas from the week:
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A guide to making streets into safe pandemic polling places before the election (Street
Plans)
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A long-distance art project that tackles COVID-era racism across the U.S.-Canada border (Next
City)
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A Canadian playbook for revitalizing Main Street during the pandemic (Bring
Back Main Street)
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A new research project to examines how privately-owned third places affect health and well-being (UrbanLand)
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Hostile architecture—it can happen from the top down or from the bottom up (Wired)
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A marketplace in Imphal, India, that has been run solely by women since the 16th-century (New
York Times)
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A beginners guide to streateries (Spaces
to Places)
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Two new case studies on creative placemaking and equitable real estate: one in Chicago (Planetizen) and
one in Boston (Shelterforce)
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The value of dense urbanism in rural communities (Brookings)
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The reason why women are biking in record numbers during the pandemic (New
York Times)
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Quote of the Week
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“It's up to us to decide whether we want our streets—our most abundant
public space—to serve the many purposes that a public space can, or to continue to be single use, single experience spaces that serve a single kind of user.”
—Nidhi Gulati, Senior Director of Programs & Projects at Project for Public Spaces, during our ongoing Reimagining Streets as Places training.
See on Twitter.
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