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How to Create Successful Markets Training

Early bird rate ends February 2nd at 6pm ET!

‍Four-week online training for creating a thriving public market that is economically sustainable, maximizes community benefits, and contributes to the creation of inclusive public places.

Apply for an EDRA 2022 Great Places Award

Deadline: February 15

The award recognizes work that combines expertise in design, research, and practice, and contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places.

Our Top 10 Articles of 2021

Our 10 most popular articles of 2021 reflect a philosophy of frugal innovation, from covid adaptations to making the most of leftover urban space.

Community Placemaking Grants

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

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.

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.

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?

January 14, 2022

Thinking Beyond the Parks Department: A Q&A with Javier Otero Peña

December 27, 2021

Our Top 10 Articles of 2021

December 15, 2021

Catching Up with the 2020 Clarity Parks Project™ Grantees

December 1, 2021

Reimagining the Post-Covid Library with CloroxPro: A Q&A with Claudia Strange of the Fulton County Library System