Placemaking Monthly | New Toolkit for Tactical Suburbanism

This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

Making Cities More Exclusive With Tactical Suburbanism

Tactical Suburbanism: Low-Density Ideas for High-Density Places highlights projects from around the country where locals are using their own resources to implement informal projects that transform their streets from gritty, diverse places into exclusive communities for SUV parking and big-box shopping. Read more about our latest publication!

More from the Project for Public Spaces blog:
Community-Led Solutions in a Housing Crisis: Engaging Youth in Eugene, Oregon
Love This Town: Waterfront Lessons from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Great Public Spaces: Five Street Transformations from Around the World
Placemaking: Making it Happen: Join us this May 8-10 in NYC
  • How Beijing Is Redefining Public Space with the Temple of Heaven (TheCityFix)
  • Seiichi Miyake: 3 Ways Inclusive Design Is Revolutionizing Urban Planning (Inverse)
  • The Stark Traffic Safety Divide (CityLab)
  • How public transport actually turns a profit in Hong Kong (Guardian)
  • Kansas City Will Make Its Government 100 Percent Carbon-Free by Next Year (NextCity)
  • Missing ingredient in healing cities after disaster? Culture. (Place)
  • Measuring ‘public’ displays of affection (The Hindu)
  • Why an Indian City Is Turning Old Buses Into Bathrooms (CityLab)

“Moving beyond safety and security, [it's about] giving women and girls autonomy over their space... We know that when women have control over the top-level policy, that they can dramatically improve the lives of women and girls” 

— Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, at the kickoff of our PPS Speaker Series
Granville Island Public Market | Vancouver, BC, Canada

Open seven days a week and home to about fifty merchants, Granville Island Market is a main draw for visitors. The mix of  vendors at the market changes every week, and a tour--organized by Edible Canada--is one of the best ways to experience the diversity of products and the international food offerings.  Read more here!
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