Placemaking

A Village Takes Shape Near Atlanta

Serenbe is a new master-planned community outside of Atlanta that is creating a new model for placemaking in the U.S., taking its form from English villages and working within the natural environment.

31 May 2009 - 1:00pm

AIArchitect

The Top Trends Shaping Place

The Project for Public Spaces has released a summary of the top ten trends shaping the future of America's communities -- from public markets to community-based transportation planning.

31 January 2009 - 5:00am

Project For Public Spaces

Reasons to Smile in 2008

Neal Peirce reflects on the happier moments of 2008 -- and a future that seems bent on creating better places and communities.

25 December 2008 - 5:00am

Citiwire

Cities: Use What You've Got

According to Philip Myrick, communities that will fare the best economically are the ones that think locally and employ placemaking strategies.

1 December 2008 - 9:00am

Project For Public Spaces

Vancouver Seeks Identity Through Public Square

A contest sponsored by the Vancouver Public Space Network asks the public to find Vancouver's heart, a civic square that best defines the city. Sean Ruthen ponders the city's relationships to the each its primary squares now.

30 October 2008 - 10:00am

re:place Magazine

The Placemaking Checklist

The Project for Public Spaces offers this checklist to help determine if your city is a "great" city.

6 March 2008 - 6:00am

Making Places

Ken Snyder

Geographic Web Resources Hold Great Potential for Place Making

Fri, 03/09/2007 - 16:43

At the PlaceMatters06 fall conference, participants were treated to the first sneak preview of outside.in, a spatially enabled hub for blogs and forums that adds location-based information to online discussions. Steven Berlin Johnson, author of several books including Emergence, and The Ghost Map, and the leading inspiration behind outside.in’s conception, demonstrated the beta site during his keynote session. It created a buzz with conference participants quick to recognize its potential as a tool for encouraging community dialogue and place making.

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