Our latest #PlacemakingX newsletter is out! Read the full newsletter here: mailchi.mp/placemakingx/p… #Placemaking #PublicSpace

To further support local networks, placemaking leaders are starting to organize around cross-cutting agendas. These cross-cutting agendas started to coalesce around our first #GlobalPlacemakingSummit: placemakingx.org/summit23

Corners That Connect People and Places: 8 Cities Where Street Corners Create Social Life. “These cities make a strong case for why and how we need to activate city corners in order to bring life back to neighborhoods.” Via Fred Kent #CornerConvenience sociallifeproject.org/corners-that-c…

Our next #PlacemakingCanada gathering, in beautiful #Montreal, is coming up fast! Join us this Sept 6-7, for two days of workshops, presentations, walk/roll bike tours and site visits. Tickets are priced to support accessibility. Bursaries available. eventbrite.ca/e/placemaking-…

What New Yorkers Have Just Lost: Street Dining That Supported Vibrant Sidewalk Life and Social Hubs sociallifeproject.org/dining-sheds-s… by Fred Kent #PlacemakingNYC

Calling all Placemakers and Public Space Advocates! / Appel à toutes les personnes créatrices de lieux et défenseuses des espaces publics! placemaking-canada.ca/montreal2024

Only two weeks away!! We're super excited about the upcoming #PlacemakingCanada gathering in #Montreal on Sept 6-7. Lots of walk & bike tours, site visits, presentations and panels. Join us for the fun! eventbrite.ca/e/placemaking-…

Giselle Sebag joins #AoCB24 from Barcelona and will share insights into how to build thriving cities. Giselle will explore how cities can drive health, equity, and economic growth by prioritizing infrastructure that supports well-being for all.

The placemaking movement is ready to evolve to a new level of systemic impact! 5 years since we launched #PlacemakingX at regional #placemaking conferences around the world. We’ve helped start & sustain 30+ placemaking networks covering much of the globe. mailchi.mp/placemakingx/p…

La Rambla. Lovely Barcelona. La Rambla, the extension of Passeig de Gracia, leads to the sea. It is one of the best pedestrian dominated streets anywhere. Enjoy document, dozens and dozens of great images and comments. Thanks Fred Kent & team bit.ly/4dHacqL

Just over a week away! Join us for two VERY full days of walks, site visits, workshops and more. The #PlacemakingCanada 2024 Gathering takes place Sept 6-7 in #Montreal. 2-day tix $75; bursaries available. eventbrite.ca/e/placemaking-…

A big thank you to the Alliance of River Three (ART!) for hosting us! 🙌 It was an inspiring walkabout/talkabout session with our Community Members, and we're incredibly proud of the work you've done in rehabilitating the river ecosystem 🌿💧

Join us this coming week (Sept 6-7) and explore some of #Montreal's amazing street transformations and public spaces. There's so much to see! PlacemakingCanada.Eventbrite.ca

Our #PlacemakingCanada 2024 gathering is underway! Ville de Montréal Bartek Komorowski shares an overview of Montreal's work in transforming streets into safer, healthier places for gathering and public life.

Massa Almoselly sharing placemaking approaches from Syria. #PlacemakingCanada

Our #PlacemakingCanada afternoon session kicks off with a tour of the Village (Ste-Catharine E) with Gabrielle Rondy (Village SDC). Lots of placemaking going on... but also, what comes next? Next the City will start a full redesign process of the street.

Happy to see Mazz flourishing and sharing placemaking experiences from Syria 🇸🇾

“Even though many #smalltowns have plenty of #openspace, they don’t necessarily have effective community space.” Rebecca Sanborn Stone Intentional, effective #placemaking provides residents the ability to create these essential #communityspaces & thus protect & enhance their towns. #Rural

The restoration of Cheonggyecheon Stream in Seoul is a powerful example of urban transformation that echoes Fred Kent's wisdom: "If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places." 🌳🏙️