Placemaking Newsletter | Key Takeaways from Vancouver

In this issue: Key takeaways from Vancouver; Placemaking and the New Urban Agenda; Jane Jacobs on funding great places; Chamber musicians are placemakers too! ; and PPS joins the Clinton Global Initiative.

Project for Public Spaces
February Newsletter
This newsletter connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issuesnewsquotesplaces, and events from the placemaking movement.
Ideas & Issues

Key takeaways from Placemaking Week in Vancouver

  • PPS has just launched its online conference report for the Placemaking Leadership Forum 2016.
     
  • The conference, which came together with Pro Walk / Pro Bike / Pro Place to make up the first ever Placemaking Week, brought over 450 placemakers from around the world to Vancouver, BC from September 14–17 in order to chart the future of placemaking.
     
  • If you weren’t able to attend or just want to relive the event, check out the report for an executive summary and videos of all the plenary sessions, plus quotable quotes, photos, and more.
     
  • Each day had a different theme/mission, but the overall goal was to tackle some of the most complex, systemic issues in placemaking with an emphasis on real examples that address them in practice. As attendee and speaker Lucinda Hartley put it, “This was a conference for problem-solvers, governments, community advocates, local business leaders, property developers and nonprofits who are walking the walk.”

 


 

Placemaking and the New Urban Agenda

    • The priority given to place and public space in the New Urban Agenda marks an important shift for the global development community. But the New Urban Agenda is still playing catch-up to how communities, practitioners are mobilizing on this issue.



  • To understand a bit more about how this impact is felt globally, we asked our audience, how can public spaces and placemaking support the New Urban Agenda. You can share your ideas, examples and stories too with #H3Places on Twitter and Instagram.

 


 

Jane Jacobs on funding great places

    • Almost unnoticed and unremarked," explained Jane Jacobs in 1964 speech, "a great unbalance has developed in cities between money for building things and money for running things.



 



Chamber musicians are placemakers too!

  • While the creative placemaking movement is gaining momentum around the globe, it is most often associated with the visual arts rather than the performing arts.
     
  • The Sound Places Program combines music, placemaking, and civic engagement by integrating musicians-in-residence into community life in two Louisiana Cultural Districts.
     
  • The two pilot projects for Sound Places will launch in January 2017, when selected ensembles and communities will work together to develop unique music-infused placemaking projects. Are you a chamber musician and a placemaker? Read the article and stay tuned for more details on how to get involved.

 


 

PPS joins the Clinton Global Initiative

    • At the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) PPS announced a new Commitment to Action to forge partnerships with national and international organizations to expand placemaking in their fields of practice and in the local communities they serve.


    • During this 3-year commitment, PPS will work with local community leaders and municipal government to launch pilot projects with each partner organization in 1-3 public spaces by 2019 to build their long-term capacity for placemaking. 


    • To date, members of the CGI community have made more than 3,500 Commitments to Action, which have improved the lives of over 430 million people in more than 180 countries.


  • Our campaigns will include low-cost, short-term improvements to attract more people to a public space, which will set the stage for longer-term infrastructure changes, with subsequent interventions occurring incrementally.

Want to write for the PPS blog? We are now taking pitches for articles, you can submit a query here.
Place Talk

Projects should not be visualized from the air. We are not birds.
- Hans Karsenberg, Editor of The City ay Eye Level
 
Placemaking is a powerful tool for democratic change, a means to stitch cities together.
- PK Das, Architect
 

Creating opportunity for everyone builds more delicious and equitable places.
- Caleb Zigas, Executive Director, La Cocina
Placemaking News
These are the places we remember most vividly, the places where serendipitous things happen, the places we tell stories about.
Submit your Great Public Space today!

 
Upcoming Events
PPS and placemaking are making a special appearance in Texas!

Come and join us at the PastForward Conference taking place in Houston, TX this November 15-18, 2016 for a special Placemaking Training Intensive. Click here for more details.
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