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Are We Doing This Right? – Placemaking Edition (Part 2)

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This is Part 2 of our 'Are We Doing This Right?' discussion on placemaking! This time, we delve deeper into some criticisms of placemaking as it is commonly applied. Missed Part 1? Follow this-here link. (And consider subscribing anywhere you find podcasts, so you don’t miss any more episodes!)

Your hosts for this episode: Jordan Clark & AJ Fawver.

Want to read more? Here is just a sampling of what’s out there and what we found useful:

Placemaking Manifesto

Paper: Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking

What is Placemaking and Identity?

NEA White Paper: Creative Placemaking

Places in the Making: How placemaking builds places and communities

Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem

Paper: Place Guarding: Activist and Social Practice Art -Direct Action Against Gentrification

Place Guarding: An End to the Slow Violence of Creative Placemaking and Gentrification?

The Complicated Business of Placemaking in a Place That Already Exists

Project for Public Spaces

Eleven Principles for Creating Great Community Places

What are the Real-World Impacts of Creative Placemaking?

Placemaking as an Economic Development Tool

Best Practices for Creative Placemaking

Places that Pay: Benefits of placemaking

Places that Pay: Benefits of placemaking v2

The City Repair Project (Portland, OR)


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