Seeing many pedestrian streets fail in the 70s led @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social to look at leading transportation planning with life and use, rather simply removing cars. The approach we developed: www.sociallifeproject.org/streets_as_p... @placemaking-canada.bsky.social @placemakingx.bsky.social

Streets as Places to Come Together: The Next Evolution for the Transportation Revolution

Making our streets and sidewalks active, inclusive and fun means shifting our focus to the social life of our communities and making community-led improvisation a priority

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"We were stunned to see the impact that something as simple as a bench could have on the rhythm of life in our neighborhood," www.sociallifeproject.org/reciprocal-g...

Reciprocal Gestures and Improvisation: How One Small Placemaking Act Can Precipitate Great Places

One placemaking act can make a difference by becoming catalytic and spreading its impact down the block through the power of reciprocal gestures and improvisation.

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The amazing POWER OF 10! It can be simple & powerful tool to create better communities, by Fred Kent, Tayana Panova. Decades ago I learned from Fred that each city should have 10+ major destinations, and each 10+ places, and each 10+ things to do... Read: bit.ly/4xfkDLL

Highlighting Natural Assets in the City - How Asian Waterways Shine A look at how Seoul and Kyoto beautifully weave nature into the urban fabric through their waterways www.sociallifeproject.org/how-asian-wa... by @drtpanova.bsky.social

Highlighting Natural Assets in the City - How Asian Waterways Shine

The waterways in Seoul and Kyoto demonstrate how seamlessly integrating nature into the urban fabric enriches the experience of daily life for everybody.

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Unpacking this famous quote by our Fred Kent: www.sociallifeproject.org/streets_as_p... @placemakingx.bsky.social @ethankent.bsky.social

Streets as Places to Come Together: The Next Evolution for the Transportation Revolution

Making our streets and sidewalks active, inclusive and fun means shifting our focus to the social life of our communities and making community-led improvisation a priority

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Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Remember, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places. Via Fred Kent & @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

Gazebos, Bandstands, and Other Shade Structures - The Best Focal Points for Public Places? www.sociallifeproject.org/gazebos-band... by Fred Kent and @drtpanova.bsky.social #Placemaking #Gazebos #Bandstands #Shade #UrbanDesign

Gazebos, Bandstands, and Other Shade Structures - The Best Focal Points for Public Places?

The gazebo is a versatile and multi-functional amenity that has a unique ability to tie a space together.

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Turning the shaping of communities & cities upside-down to start with the social life of public spaces is what we're all about! Our Fred Kent developed the Power of 10 #Placemaking concept to apply this idea at all scales: www.sociallifeproject.org/the-power-of...

Very helpful discussion, and relevant to our work with PlacemakingUS & @PlacemakingX to network, check, & evolve the placemaking conversation. Each part of the world defines placemaking from different strengths, disciplines, & sectors, & needs their definitions to be checked, balanced and broadened.

🌟👟TOMORROW: Join our webinar featuring #SidewalkNation author @michaelcpollack.bsky.social +@bikewalkbus.bsky.social on the importance of sidewalks in street design, community building, public life, and more! #ActivePeople 🗓️July 14 RSVP: buff.ly/57YDYz7

"To make parks places where all kinds of people want to be, from morning to evening, weekday to weekend, they have to offer more than just grass and trees. They have to offer joy and pleasure." (www.sociallifeproject.org/from-passive...)

From Passive Parks to Pleasure Gardens: Transforming Underused Greenspace Into Beloved Destinations

To turn parks into places that all kinds of people want to visit and spend time in, they have to offer more than just grass and trees. They have to offer joy and pleasure.

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"We're creating houses and spaces, rather than homes and places. It's a mechanistic worldview instead of a human one." From my conversation with Shawn Duncan on his podcast Places People Change about #PlaceAttachement: places-people-change.ghost.io/belonging-as... #Placemaking

Belonging as Sense of Place: An Introduction to Placemaking

Places People Change explores neighborhood belonging through three lenses: social cohesion (our trust in neighbors), collective efficacy (our belief that we can shape our future together), and sense o...

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How Small Buildings Can Seed Vitality in Public Places www.sociallifeproject.org/small-buildi... by Fred Kent and @drtpanova.bsky.social @placemakingx.bsky.social @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social

Headed to Detroit for #PlacemakingWeek! The city that launched the global #Placemaking movement with its many transformative projects, and by hosting our first international placemaking conference back in 2013. Thanks to @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social for hosting again!

PlacemakingX@placemakingx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re participating in @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social’s #PlacemakingWeek this week in Detroit, the city from which we first launched the global #placemaking movement, and our network building approach, back in 2013(while we were leading PPS).

“If democracy is letting the people decide, then Placemaking is one of the most powerful tools we have.” @mitchellsilver.bsky.social former @nycparks.bsky.social commissioner and current @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social board member. #PlacemakingWeek

We’re participating in @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social’s #PlacemakingWeek this week in Detroit, the city from which we first launched the global #placemaking movement, and our network building approach, back in 2013(while we were leading PPS).

Reciprocal Gestures and Improvisation: How One Small Placemaking Act Can Precipitate Great Places www.sociallifeproject.org/reciprocal-g... by Fred Kent and @drtpanova.bsky.social @placemakingx.bsky.social

Reciprocal Gestures and Improvisation: How One Small Placemaking Act Can Precipitate Great Places

One placemaking act can make a difference by becoming catalytic and spreading its impact down the block through the power of reciprocal gestures and improvisation.

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April 1st, 2022 we launched PlaceX to help draw certain investment to space... and leave Earth for the rest of us to save through investing in place: www.placemakingx.org/article/spac... @placemakingx.bsky.social @sociallifeproject.bsky.social

SpaceX and PlacemakingX to Partner to Make Place Out of Space

The recent success of remote work and social distancing shows us we can viably spread out a bit further.

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If you're looking for the next big IPO after SpaceX, I offer you PlaceX! Invest in place, as a hedge against us all going to space. Some investing in space opens up an opportunity for these rest of us to invest in place - while drawing to space that which no longer supports place.

Revisit the Summit Report and @spacing.bsky.social podcast: www.placemaking-canada.ca/global-summi... 👇

Let’s celebrate! It’s been a year since Placemaking Canada co-hosted the 2nd Global Placemaking Summit in Toronto with @placemakingx.bsky.social What a time it was - over four days we brought together over 320 participants representing over 20 countries in 8 unforgettable venues across the City.

Walkability through Placemaking! Now available for to watch for free, webinar from Urban Land Institute & @americawalks.bsky.social, hosted by @mikemcginn.bsky.social, with talks by Carol Coletta & our @ethankent.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=frIz... @sociallifeproject.bsky.social

More Than a Sidewalk: How Great Places Encourage Walking

YouTube video by America Walks

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🚨Publication Day for Sidewalk Nation!🚨 Sidewalks connect us all, and they connect commerce, tech, tax, property, policing, homelessness, surveillance, free speech, socioeconomic equity, public health, climate resilience, and more. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Sidewalk Nation — Harvard University Press

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.Public infrastructure is as essential to ...

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The Tragedy and Triumph of Place: Building from the Global Movement for Public Space and Placemaking www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-... My latest article, with Conrad Kickert, appears in the just released book on Place and Placemaking.

The Tragedy and Triumph of Place: | 16 | Building From the Global Move

Our civilization is fundamentally built up from our shared spaces. Yet in recent decades, the demise of our public spaces is at the root of several societal

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PlacemakingX@placemakingx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New book: Place and Placemaking Public launch during #PlacemakingWeek, in Detroit, June 23 at 5.30pm. Our @ethankent.bsky.social, who features among more than a dozen thought leaders who have contributed, will speak w/ editors Conrad Kickert & Robert Shibley: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Podcast with @idealspaces.bsky.social and our @ethankent.bsky.social the where the #placemaking movement is at, and where it is going next: www.idealspaces.org/podcasts/com...

Ideal Spaces | Community Building – Ethan Kent PlacemakingX

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Social Life for All - How Interactive Sculptures Bring Us Together www.sociallifeproject.org/how-interact... "A great sculpture is one you can't ignore – one that connects you to its context and to your fellow community member..." Fred Kent & @drtpanova.bsky.social #PublicArt #CreativePlacemaking

Social Life for All - How Interactive Sculptures Bring Us Together

A great sculpture has the power to pull a space together and connect people of all ages, giving spaces identity and community character.

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Place and Placemaking is now available open access, with free download of the book and independent chapters: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Place and Placemaking | Conrad Kickert, Camden Miller, Robert Shibley

This book focuses on the importance of place and the multifaceted process of placemaking to the creation of durable and meaningful urban environments. It

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Paris Reborn! How Paris Broke All the Rules to Be the Best City for People. By Fred Kent. Paris's Peerless Placemaking: How the City of Light Breaks the Rules to Get Things Right. Gorgeous photos, text... read & share with decision makers. All is doable! bit.ly/4lTWANI

New book: Place and Placemaking Public launch during #PlacemakingWeek, in Detroit, June 23 at 5.30pm. Our @ethankent.bsky.social, who features among more than a dozen thought leaders who have contributed, will speak w/ editors Conrad Kickert & Robert Shibley: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Let's shift the development paradigm from #Placetaking to #Placemaking through #PlaceLedDevelopment and #PlaceCapitalism. We've loved learning from, and supporting, the #PlacemakingAotearoa and #PlacemakingAuckland conversations and communities.

And strange not to mention the 50+ years of work of @sociallifeproject.bsky.social or @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social on seating: www.sociallifeproject.org/tag/seating/ @placesjournal.bsky.social

Seating - Social Life Project

“Benches are artifacts, the purpose of which is to punctuate architectural photos. They are not so good for seating. There are too few of them; they are too small; they are often isolated from other b...

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