What is Placemaking? | Project for Public Spaces

Placemaking is a collaborative process that enhances public spaces, fostering community engagement.

Placemaking transforms public spaces into vital community hubs by encouraging collective reimagination and shared vision. It enhances the connection between people and their environment, focusing on creating spaces that promote health, happiness, and well-being.

With roots in ideas from the 1960s by figures like Jane Jacobs and William H. Whyte, placemaking prioritizes people over cars and emphasizes lively neighborhoods. The process is grounded in community participation, using local assets and inspiration to improve public spaces.

Placemaking begins at the smallest scale and emphasizes “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” strategies, which focus on immediate improvements. This approach tackles common urban challenges, such as traffic-heavy streets or underused parks, by adopting holistic solutions that consider the entire place, not just individual elements.

Central to placemaking is the belief that great public spaces are built on community input and collaboration. The Project for Public Spaces offers tools like the Place Diagram and 11 Principles of Placemaking to guide communities in creating vibrant, inclusive places.

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