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Jul

The Los Angeles Park That Used to be a Parking Lot

Categories: Placemaking, Planning, USA and Canada

by Joe Peach

Looking Northwest across elevated grass mound.

Los Angeles' 50 Parks Initiative aims to transform underutilized properties in areas lacking recreational space into parks. We recently got the opportunity to talk with Michael Lehrer about his work on Spring Street Park - the 16th to launch as part of the scheme. Read more

Jul

Voices from Nairobi: Business Booming in a City of Great Contrast

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Placemaking, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc, Nairobi

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by Alejandro Echeverria

Every city has a voice of its own. This Big City recently visited Nairobi as part of a visit to Philips' Community Light Centre. Nairobi, we found out, has a very exciting and contrasting set of voices. Read more

May

Healthy Communities at the Placemaking Leadership Council

Categories: Placemaking, Planning

Tags: cc

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by Cara Courage

One of the aims of the Placemaking Leadership Council’s April meeting was to form an agenda for a global campaign for placemaking as a movement. The 300 delegates from around the world tacked different aspects of placemaking, including healthy communities. Read more

Apr

Detroit Calling at the Placemaking Leadership Council

Categories: Placemaking, Planning, USA and Canada

Tags: cc, Detroit

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by Cara Courage

The inaugural Placemaking Leadership Council met in Detroit in April. Attended by 300 people from 10 countries, the conference aimed to be the first step in the galvanisation of placemaking as a global movement and a knowledge exchange between placemakers and their diverse practices. Read more

Apr

100 Urban Interventions in 1 Day

Categories: Community, Latin America, People, Placemaking

Tags: Bogota, cc

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by Joe Peach

There's a limit to the amount of physical change one person can initiate in a city, but what if hundreds of citizens united, each putting in place the changes they want to see in their city all on the same day? That's the goal of 100en1día - a social movement which aims to inspire citizen driven change. Read more

Apr

Mahindra World City: The Future of Gated Communities?

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Placemaking, Planning

Comments: 3

by Forum for the Future

Mahindra World City sets out to take the gated community concept – safe, separate, exclusive – and give it a sustainability spin. A "self-sustaining island of excellence" was the mandate given to the architects by the man behind the idea. But does it work? Read more

Mar

It’s a Love/Hate Thing: The Protest to Preserve the Berlin Wall

Categories: Europe, Placemaking, Planning

Tags: Berlin, cc

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by Marian Swain

“Don’t tear down this wall!” This phrase may sound shocking to Berliners who lived for decades in a divided city, but it is the rallying cry of the current protest in Berlin to preserve the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 kilometer section of the Berlin Wall in the Friedrichshain neighborhood. Read more

Feb

Forgotten Staten Island: A Photo Essay

Categories: Placemaking, Planning, USA and Canada

Tags: cc, New York

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by John Reinhardt

How do you convince someone that a neighborhood is not “Forgotten?” That it’s a perfectly fine place to live – desirable even? This post looks at Port Richmond, with pictures and statistics that will help you decide for yourself what kind of neighborhood Port Richmond is. Read more