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Community Placemaking Grants

Our grants program enable local partners to transform underperforming public spaces and co-create new ones that serve historically marginalized communities.

Market Cities Program

Working in partnership with HealthBridge Foundation of Canada and Slow Food International, the Market Cities Initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of regional policy, governance, and investment strategies to help entire public market networks thrive.

How to Turn a Place Around

A Placemaking Handbook

Now available for purchase through Indiebound.org, in support of your local bookstore, and internationally through Amazon.

Walk/Bike/Places: Learn more and register!

The premier conference in North America for walking, bicycling, and placemaking professionals from the public and private sectors.

Master's Program in Urban Placemaking and Management

Learn an integrated approach to public space design, programming, and management through Pratt Institute's Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment.

Programs

Placemaking

Imagine a world where everyone has the opportunity to shape public space.

Public Markets

Cultivating hubs of health, community, and opportunity.

Articles

What is Placemaking?

What Makes a Successful Place?

October 8, 2021

Why We Need Market Cities

September 29, 2021

Getting Kids Outside for Better Health with the Makers of Claritin®

Flyover Park: Empowering the Next Generation of City Builders in Calgary

Social Alchemy: Jim Walker on Placemaking as Utopian Experiment