“Placemaking” is everyplace these days. My Twitter feed (admittedly heavy on urbanism, land use, and transportation) positively bristles with #placemaking.
The Project for Public Spaces, the epicenter of placemaking theory and practice, says it’s “More than a fashionable phrase, it’s a whole new way of thinking about fostering vital communities.” In Forbes, placemaking is introduced to a wider audience as “a response to top down, regulation heavy environments” and Atlantic Cities has a placemaking topic page.
Placemaking is not new and it’s not necessary – read more at streets.mn
4 responses to “Forget placemaking, just do it: Northfield edition”
RT @bbuckheit: Forget placemaking, just do it: Northfield edition @Streets.MN http://t.co/UHTRJlpzo8
@bbuckheit @StreetsMN “#Placemaking is an act of doing something. It’s not #Planning, it’s doing.” @Fred_Kent http://t.co/hJ6ZQaXVII
@bbuckheit @StreetsMN “the most successful #Placemaking intitiatives transcend the ‘place’ to forefront the ‘making’” http://t.co/hJ6ZQaXVII
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