Becoming Bluegill
Staying put fosters both conservation and conversation with place.
Placemaking
Retrofitting Suburbia: Communities Innovate Their Way Out of Sprawl
Saddled with traffic congestion and infrastructural erosion, can suburbia be retrofitted into a sustainable model of development and adapt to a post-oil world?
A Man, a Plan, a Market: The Lighter Quicker Cheaper Transformation of a Rural Kentucky Main Street
How did the small Appalachian city of Corbin, Kentucky reduce its downtown vacancy rate from 40% to nearly 0% in only three years?
Recoded City
Recoded City is filled with inspiring confirmation that, when it comes to shelter and placemaking in an age of limits, a city’s primary resource is the energy and motivation of its inhabitants.
How Collaboration is Saving Rare Coastline and Ancient Olive Farms in Southern Italy
Food in Italy is not just about nutrition, it’s also about lifestyle, culture, and sharing.
Beyond Food: Community Gardens as Places of Connection and Empowerment
Because of disputes over land, access to green space, and equal rights to the city, urban gardens have become a symbol of community activism and empowerment…
A Good Move for Flint: Relocating Public Market Improves Food Access
As the city of Flint, Michigan is still mired in the aftermath of the contamination of its water supply—a public health disaster that has left thousands of residents exposed to dangerous levels of lead—it’s encouraging to see evidence of positive health-related reinvestments in this Rustbelt city.
Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program
The combination of BK Rot’s many aspects—creating green jobs for young people, raising local awareness about composting, and opening up public space—makes it a useful example of creatively addressing large-scale problems, even on a small scale.
How Breaking Down Government Silos Empowers Placemaking
At PPS, we often say, “When you focus on place, you do everything differently.”
Placemaking and the Human Scale City
everyone has the right to live in a human scale city, and one way to achieve this is through placemaking
Can Retail Space be an Extension of the Public Realm? A Look at Seattle’s Third Place Books
For sociologist Ray Oldenburg, each of us needs three places: the home, the workplace or school, and beyond that, a third place – a public space on neutral ground where people can gather and interact while experiencing a sense of ease and belonging.
What If We Built Our Bridges through Placemaking?
Bridges are, by design, meant to bring people together. All we have to do is let them.