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On exactly this day year, we thought we would still be able to hold our Walk/Bike/Places 2020 conference in person in Indianapolis, Indiana. The coronavirus pandemic had other plans, but the good news is that this year we can with the right safety precautions!
One of the many public places attendees will get to experience firsthand at Walk/Bike/Places 2021 is the legendary Indianapolis Cultural Trail, which connects the city's five cultural districts and its broader network of greenways. From the PPS archives, read the story of the cultural trail and what we can learn from it today. Read more.
Register for Walk/Bike/Places 2021 before March 29th to take advantage of our early bird rate!
More Events & Opportunities
How a Library is Reimagining Public Wi-Fi During COVID-19
February 7, 2021 • by Aaron Greiner
Our Top 10 Articles of 2020
December 17, 2020 • by Nate Storring
Winter Placemaking During a Pandemic: Six Ideas from Around Canada
December 11, 2020 • by Alyson Dobrota & Gail Armour
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Mar. 9, 2021 • Webinar: Making Communities Livable for People of All Ages: Special Guest AARP
Danielle Arigoni and Mike Watson from AARP Livable Communities provide an introduction to their Community Challenge grant program and how your community can apply.
June 15-18, 2021 • Conference: Walk/Bike/Places
North America's premier conference for walking, biking and placemaking professionals is back! Our early bird registration rate ends March 29, 2021. Learn more.
More Events & Opportunities
Feb. 23, 2021 • Webinar: Park Bench Chat: Preserving Black history for a more equitable future, Trust for Public Land
Feb. 24, 2021 • Webinar: Learning from Place: Placemaking and Philanthropy in a Pandemic, The Boston Foundation
Mar. 9, 2021 • Grant: Canada Healthy Communities Initiative, Community Foundations of Canada
Mar. 12, 2021 • Request for Applications: Rural Design Workshops & Learning Cohorts, Citizens' Institute on Rural Design
Mar. 15-18, 2021 • Conference: InTents: The Farmers Market Conference 2021, featuring PPS's Kelly Verel and Kurt Wheeler on creating local conditions to build better markets
Mar. 19, 2021 • Conference Session: Streets for People: How a Pandemic and Advanced Mobility Are Changing Our Relationship to the Street, Urbanism Next Virtual Forum 2021 featuring PPS's Alessandra Galletti
May 19-21, 2021 • Conference: CNU 29. Design for Change, Congress for the New Urbanism
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Buffalo's DL&W Terminal. Project for Public Spaces is working with developer Samuel J. Savarino to reimagine a 100,000 square foot train terminal in Buffalo, NY. The first step in this herculean undertaking? Engage the public in an inclusive discussion about the vision for the site's mixture of uses. Early ideas include a public market, business incubator, community spaces, bars, restaurants and more. (Buffalo News)
Tucson's Sunshine Mile. After a controversial road widening was set for Broadway in Tucson, Arizona, the Rio Nuevo downtown improvement district partnered with Project for Public Spaces to save historical sites along the corridor and ensure that the leftover parcels of land develop into a lively district that serves the community. (Real Estate Daily News)
Connecting America's Active Transportation System Act. U.S. Senators Van Hollen, Markey, and Sullivan introduced the bipartisan Connecting America's Active Transportation System Act, which would authorize $500 million each year for a nationwide network of safe walking and biking routes. Project for Public Spaces endorsed the act, along with sponsors of our upcoming Walk/Bike/Places conference People for Bikes and other likeminded organizations. (United States Senate)
George Floyd and a Community of Care. At E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, the site of George Floyd's murder by a police officer, a self-organizing network explores what it means to construct and to maintain a space for public memory and collective action. (Places Journal)
Ugly Duckling or a Glimpse of the Future? The United States Postal Service revealed a new mail-delivery vehicle this week, which received a mixed reaction from the design world. But as Alissa Walker observes in Curbed, the duck-like design has several pedestrian-friendly, life-saving features that should be standard in all of our large vehicles. (Curbed)
Race, Culture, and Space. In a new interview, landscape architecture and environmental planning professor Kofi Boone discusses his work over the past year trying to understand the connections between the Black Lives Matter movement’s efforts to create just, healthy, and safe places for Black people and the work of planners, designers and architects working in Black communities. (Reimagining the Civic Commons)
Designer Rajie Cook Is Dead at 90. Along with Don Shanosky, Cook developed the 34 pictogram symbols widely used to identify restrooms, no smoking areas, and other uses and guidelines that have helped us make sense of public spaces since the 1970s. (New York Times)
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Here is a roundup of 10 inspiring placemaking ideas from the week:
- The past and future of alcohol in American public spaces (Planetizen)
- The case for putting the scientific method back into urban "experiments" (TheCityFix)
- A new book on changing politics through placemaking (Shreveport Times)
- A case study in how municipalities can build their collaboration muscles (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
- A Colorado woman who is transforming old ski gondolas into winter-friendly outdoor dining rooms (Food & Wine)
- The ongoing journey toward Sweden's "one-minute city" (World Economic Forum)
- The many ways plagues have shaped our landscapes (New York Times)
- A case study from Milwaukee's Martin Luther King Drive that could be a national model for other MLK Boulevards (Main Street America)
- An outstanding snow clearance regimen in Holland, Michigan (Streetsblog USA)
- A new study from UMKC that finds bikes are a lifeline for Kansas City men experiencing homelessness (Health Forward Foundation)
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