- Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper is a lower-risk and lower-cost local development strategy.
Placemaking as a New Environmentalism: Reinvigorating the Environmental Movement in the 21st Century
What kind of places do we want to create? What kind of communities do we want to live in?
The Power of Place: A New Dimension for Sustainable Development
Placemaking offers a valuable tool communities can use to get back in control of their future and their environment.
Place Capital: The Shared Wealth that Drives Thriving Communities
Investments in Place Capital grow the shared wealth fundamental to sustainable communities. The public places we most value, both in our communities and around the world, have this wealth and further attract its preservation and expansion.
- We have to find efficient, creative, profitable, collaborative ways to turn public spaces into treasured community places.
- Public Squares enhance urban livability and provide new anchors to downtown development.
- The missing ingredient in most discussions about jobs is the fact that secure jobs are tied to a place.
- More than a fashionable phrase, it's a whole new way of thinking about fostering vital communities.
- 13 steps to great destinations.
- Civic spaces are an extension of the community. When they work well, they serve as a stage for our public lives.
- No need to retreat indoors--great public spaces draw people 12 months a year.
- Brief case studies of cities where public spaces have had demonstrable positive impacts.