The Placemaking Round-Up
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How placemaking builds places and communities.
Author(s): DUSP team lead by Susan Silberberg
What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering place? How do individuals take back their neighborhood?
Author(s): Project for Public Spaces
A detailed look at the work of many community architects around Asia who are experimenting with new and unconventional ways of supporting community-driven change.
Author(s): Asian Coalition for Human Rights
An ongoing body of work that aims to document and share tactics from around the world.
Author(s): Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia
Design Ideas for Winter Cities.
Author(s): David Jurca and Brad Valtman
The origins and the social, economic and technological drivers behind this (Temporary City) phenomenon, and its place within modern planning theory and practice.
Author(s): Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams
City-Making in a Fluid World. A book that tells an inspiring story about the rise of pop-up culture and its impact on cities across the globe.
Author(s): Beekmans and Joop de Boer
Experiments in Urban Public Space.
Author(s): Center for Sustainable Development, University of Texas at Austin
A tool for community driven public space.
Author(s): Nashville Civic Design Center
Urban change carried out by local residents in their own neighborhoods or communities.
Author(s): Marcos L. Rosa
Reclaiming the public in left-over open spaces.
Author(s): Urbego
It's all about creativity and innovative entrepreneurship, pop ups, and collaboration.
Author(s): Kylie Legge
A study exploring the unauthorized, "Do-It-Yourself" urban interventions across fourteen cities.
Author(s): Gordon Douglas
A look into New York City's 700 miles of underutilized space underneath bridges, subways, and highways. Under the Elevated proposes how and why these public spaces ought to be reimagined.
Author(s): Design Trust for Public Space
A toolkit for re-imagining your neighborhood.
Author(s): Cecilia Tham's studio at Parsons The New School for Design
A comprehensive overview of the goals, policies, process, procedures and guidelines for creating a parklet in San Francisco.
Author(s): San Francisco Planning Department
A primer on user-generated urbanism and temporary tactics for improving the public realm.
Author(s): ReBar
A Toolkit for Creating and Implementing Parklets.
Author(s): UCLA Complete Streets Initiative
Ten secrets for creating great shopping streets that are a magnet for people.
Author(s): David Engwicht
A report detailing low-cost strategies that improve pedestrian safety. It outlines Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper pedestrian infrastructure projects that community organizations, municipal agencies or private businesses can implement themselves.
Author(s): Mass in Motion
A Detroit-based tool for improving vacant lots with information on the cost, upkeep and experience required to transform a variety of possible unused sites in the city.
Author(s): Detroit Future City
An evaluation tool for LA's People St. Program, which transforms underutilized streets and alleys into people-centered destination.
Author(s): LADOT
A user-friendly, common sense guide for everyone from community residents to mayors on how to create successful places.
Author(s): Project for Public Spaces
An illustrated handbook to inspire and guide citizens, planners and officials to re-imagine our streets.
Author(s): Jordan Lewis and Mike Schwindeller
A Chicago-based tool about Placemaking and a step-by-step guide for improving neighborhoods.
Author(s): Project for Public Spaces
Better Block's report about their 2015 LQC project in Akron along with helpful guide for communities interested in developing similar interventions.
Author(s): Better Block; The Knight Foundation
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