Public Commons
Toward Market Cities: Strengthening Public Market Systems
in Three North American Cities
Toward Market Cities: Lessons on Supporting Public Market Systems from Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Toronto brings together new data, analysis, and recommendations about three public market systems across North America. With support from The Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Foundation, Project for Public Spaces provided leading market organizations in each city with pro bono technical assistance and a planning grant to audit each city’s existing market system, identify challenges and opportunities, and convene a broad group of stakeholders to advocate for new policy and governance structures.
The Make a Place for People Project - December 2016
Make a Place for People is a project based on the idea that community participation is key to the creation of vibrant and healthy public spaces. The overall goal of the project is to inject new life into currently under performing public spaces in order to encourage physical activity and promote mental health while also contributing to creating more sustainable and people-friendly communities. |
This is What We Can Do Together
Strong Towns
May 22, 2020
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/21/this-is-what-we-can-do-together-md2020
"Building a productive place from the bottom up is not only viable; in the long run, it's the only way that works."
Strong Towns
May 22, 2020
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/21/this-is-what-we-can-do-together-md2020
"Building a productive place from the bottom up is not only viable; in the long run, it's the only way that works."
Pop-Up Streetscape Revitalization
AARP
https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/tool-kits-resources/info-2016/pop-up-streetscape.html
A temporary, three-block streetscape exhibition — populated by protected bike lanes, crosswalks, pedestrian refuge areas, pop-up shops, food vendors, and activities for visitors of all ages — in order to spur interest in the area and show what a new arts district could look like.
AARP
https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/tool-kits-resources/info-2016/pop-up-streetscape.html
A temporary, three-block streetscape exhibition — populated by protected bike lanes, crosswalks, pedestrian refuge areas, pop-up shops, food vendors, and activities for visitors of all ages — in order to spur interest in the area and show what a new arts district could look like.
Public Space During a Pandemic
The commons is critical for communities
April 2
https://medium.com/reimagining-the-civic-commons/public-space-during-a-pandemic-32da59c809d
"... a myriad of voices are proclaiming the importance of our neglected and underfunded civic assets — parks, public spaces and nature — with new recognition of our shared civic commons as critical social, environmental and even health infrastructure for communities."
The commons is critical for communities
April 2
https://medium.com/reimagining-the-civic-commons/public-space-during-a-pandemic-32da59c809d
"... a myriad of voices are proclaiming the importance of our neglected and underfunded civic assets — parks, public spaces and nature — with new recognition of our shared civic commons as critical social, environmental and even health infrastructure for communities."
Find out about the economic benefits of downtown public space!
“Business Case: How the public realm and the urban economy go hand in hand.” https://www.880cities.org/doablecity/business-case/
“Business Case: How the public realm and the urban economy go hand in hand.” https://www.880cities.org/doablecity/business-case/
The Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Transformation of Public Spaces
The quality of a public space has always been best defined by the people who use it. The growing success of “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” (LQC) projects all over the world is proof that expensive and labor-intensive initiatives are not the only, or even the most effective, ways to bring energy and life into a community’s public space. https://www.pps.org/article/lighter-quicker-cheaper
The quality of a public space has always been best defined by the people who use it. The growing success of “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” (LQC) projects all over the world is proof that expensive and labor-intensive initiatives are not the only, or even the most effective, ways to bring energy and life into a community’s public space. https://www.pps.org/article/lighter-quicker-cheaper
- from parking lots to paradise – free your soil your soil
Depave promotes the transformation of over-paved places, engaging and inspiring communities to reconnect landscapes to nature. https://depave.org/
Depave promotes the transformation of over-paved places, engaging and inspiring communities to reconnect landscapes to nature. https://depave.org/