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Welcome to mid-October's Newsletter of Placemaking Europe!
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Dear Placemaking Europe community and readers,
Welcome back in October! Our amazing network is constantly growing and as we have more and more inspiring news to share each month and the newsletter was becoming
longer, from now on we will come to you bi-monthly with a bit of a shorter but more updated message so that you don't miss out on any interesting events, call for contents and other resources.
We hope you are doing well and with everything happening around, you find the time to relax, unwind, spend time on things that make you happy and concentrate
on your passions.
A passion that we all share is making cities better. Below, you will find the updates from our community participants, working groups, events and webinars that are definitely worth participating in - PLUS resources and call for content that may inspire you.
Take a look at out mid-October's newsletter and, please, stay safe and take care of each other.
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Call for Winter and Pandemic
Proof Placemaking!
CALL
TO SUBMIT is open until November 6, 2020
As we notice many fellow placemakers and cities are
looking for alternative means of practicing social proximity at physical distance, and considering the darker months ahead of us, we are tasked with the challenge to make use of innovative
tools and practices. Therefore, Placemaking Europe is excited to announce a new focused project open to the entire network -
Winter & Pandemic Proof Placemaking!
In November, we will come back to the network with insights gained and the invitation for all to try out these ideas in your own city this winter.
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We welcome you to share your nominations, ideas, and innovative tools to combat the
pandemic distancing measures and/or wintertime together
here
until November 6th.
Don't hesitate to contact te...@placemaking-europe.eu
if you have any questions.
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Meet the Placemaking Europe Leaders
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Meet all the other leaders on Placemaking Europe's
website!
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Roland Krebs
Roland Krebs is an urban planner/urbanist from Vienna, Austria who develops strategic action plans for cities to tackle urban growth. He has a vast, international
experience in urban planning, design and development, real estate development, land use planning and regional planning. His main interests are planning processes, neighbourhood upgrade and regeneration projects, design of urban strategies as frameworks for
placemaking.
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Michael Mehaffy
Michael Mehaffy is a researcher, educator, author and consultant in urban development. He is also currently a Senior Researcher at Ax:son Johnson Foundation and
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Collaborating with UN-Habitat on implementation of the New Urban Agenda and SDGs, and especially their public space aspects. Interested in tools, strategies, and toolkits. Particularly interested in wiki and pattern
language approaches.
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Celebrate the World’s Children Day with The Placemaking Europe Kids group!
The Placemaking Europe Kids group is organising a webinar about the concept of child-friendly cities from the perspective of children on November 20th: World Children’s Day!
During the webinar, they will briefly share their latest activities and create a momentum for discussion and knowledge exchange about working with and for children, thus, how we can create urban areas better places for them and the rest of the community. The
participating speakers represent organisations from diverse European countries and beyond.
You can find more information
here!
Any questions? Contact placemaking...@gmail.com
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Cities
of Making
Cities of Making aims to explore the role of urban based manufacturing in European cities in the 21st century. Using a combination of strategic and action research,
the CoM's ambition is to identify what works in supporting a resilient and innovative industrial base, and to test those solutions in a real world setting.
The goal of the project is to develop ideas, practices and policies focusing on public authorities (and many other relevant stakeholders) that may drive a new age of urban manufacturing embedded in place, people and locally available resources.
Check out their work here!
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The 99% Invisible City
A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design
by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
In
The 99% Invisible City, the authors zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other
fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone
curious about design, urban environments, and the unsung marvels of the world around them. It is a beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities. More information
here.
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Think
City,
Urban
Discovery and
STIPO
are proud to launch The
City at Eye Level Asia, the latest book packed with 43 inspiring case studies showcasing good public spaces as the backbone of the sustainable
city from across the region.
Congratulations to our Placemaking Europe's members who, together with Asian partners, made the book possible:
Hans
Karssenberg | Siënna
Veelders |
Charlot
Schans
There is a lot to learn from the stories in The City at Eye Level Asia book and from members of the Placemakers Asia network. Many public spaces in Asian cities are often multi-layered and multi-functional depending on the time of the day. There are no cookie-cutter
solutions as each city in the world is unique in its strengths and challenges, so we hope to discover many new layers of placemaking from our colleague network in the future.
Register here to receive
more information about the book launch!
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I hope we inspire you to continue generating change! Thank you for taking this journey
with us and, as always, a very warm welcome to all the new placemaking companions.
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Do you have any stories, projects, practices or events that you want to share with our
network? We are more than willing to include them in next month's newsletter! You can get in touch with
Marta for
more details.
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