Participants in this training course learn the essentials for creating a thriving public market that is economically sustainable, maximizes community benefits, and contributes to the creation of diverse and lively public spaces. Topics include the benefits and ingredients of successful public markets, an introduction to placemaking for markets, community engagement, sustainable market operations and management, and scaling up market facilities and operations.

Produced in partnership with Dutch mobility firm Mobycon, participants in this training course will learn the essentials for systematically changing transportation infrastructure and behavior, preparing community-based street activations, and balancing the movement and public space functions of a street. Topics include placemaking for streets, thinking at the network level to make people-friendly streets, working with different street typologies, Dutch design tactics for flexibility and life in the streets, communicating and collaborating across sectors, and more.