Placemaking for Peacemaking
Even though, by definition, public spaces are open and accessible to everyone, for refugees and immigrants they often become sites of danger and exclusion.
Placemaking
Streets as Places, Before & After
Urb-i was founded initially by four urban designers. Dealing with urban projects, creating new quality public space was imperative to our projects, however we felt that we could not influence or change existing public spaces, which were relatively easy to transform into better spaces for people and not only car oriented. That is when we decided to create Urb-i.
How to Create an Outdoor Living Room in Your Neighborhood
Lifelong friendships often start with a simple conversation with a stranger. BenchesCollective, a grassroots community organization, wants to spark those conversations by inspiring and teaching people how to create outdoor living rooms.
Tapping the Power of Place to Keep Us All Healthy
One number stands above all others as the best indicator of good health. It’s not your blood pressure, cholesterol level, average daily calories or even the age at which your grandparents die. It’s your zip code. This fact has sent shockwaves across the county. The chief aspiration of American democracy is that everyone deserves an … Read more
“Whose Streets, Our Streets”: Democracy Still Lives in Public Spaces
Regardless of how you feel about the 2016 U.S. election results, one thing is clear: public spaces are doing their job.
From Oil Age to Soil Age
To put it another way: modern citizens today use more energy and physical resources in a month than our great-grandparents used during their whole lifetime.
How Libraries are Boldly Innovating to Meet the Needs of Changing Communities
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center is one of many libraries around the U.S. and the world that are reshaping themselves, inside and out, to meet the changing needs of their communities.
From Urban Gardening to the Right to the City
A collective contributes to the transformation of a neighborhood in Recife through action taken by residents.
Making Streets More Friendly in St. Paul, MN
The Friendly Streets Initiative grew out of a group of volunteers working with various neighborhood organizations to make biking and walking safer in St. Paul.
Placemaking and Health
There is growing evidence showing that place impacts people’s health on multiple scales.
Biennials and System Change
Why do so many expos, festivals and biennials promise to change the world for the better – only to end up as trash?
The Democratized Economy: How to Build a Successful Urban Center
The most important aspect of any urban center is that it be a walkable place with an interconnected system of streets.