An outline to beginning work on placemaking projects in your community.
There are so much wonderful placemaking going on in communities everywhere that I can’t keep up with them. So, I need your help. If your community is planning or has implemented a placemaking project, let’s hear about it. You can either write...
“This might not strike you as an intellectual bombshell but people like to sit where there are places for them to sit.” William H. Whyte. Whyte applied this concept to public spaces. He found that while people don’t care too much about the...
Find out how REALTORS® helped to create the Little Paws Dog Park at the Villalobos Rescue Center in New Orleans.
Learn about a project to create a sustainable model for creating community gardens in the Wilmington, DE area.
Find out how the Bronx Manhattan North Association of REALTORS® used NAR’s Placemaking Grant to create a community mural near the Morrison Avenue Plaza.
Fortville Action Inc., a volunteer run organization aimed at strengthening and promoting Fortville, Indiana, worked with the town to close off an alleyway from vehicular traffic in order to transform the space into a pedestrian friendly walkway and destination in the heart of downtown.
If you want to create excitement in your downtown, consider open air plazas, squares and pedestrian walkways. These newly created spaces could serve as major gathering places for the community and help to revitalize downtown areas. According to...
Go look at an actual empty lot or roofless building in your downtown. Stand there and think. Think about what might work in your town.