Place Management

Happy New Year from Place Partners: two Sydney case studies

Place Partners is an Australian group looking a improving physical space and place for people engagement and enjoyment.  Here are two case studies that demonstrate the place transformations achieved: Drummoyne Village and a Telco campus (Optus Centre), both in Sydney. 

Calls for Papers - AMPS Conference Series 2018

The organisers of the Architecture Media Politis Society (AMPS) invite submission of abtracts for four upcoming conferences in their 2018 series:

Place Partners Newsletter #27 2017

The latest issue on "place" out of Australia advises that placemaking is a way to integrate all nations, especially through the cultural dynamism that comes with new citizens and as cities grow (in fact, Australia takes more migrants than the USA or New Zealand).  Other trends are covered on Places, Leaders, Practice, Renewal and Events of note, Play within cities will be explored on, 22-23 Nvember 2019; hosted by the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra.

Making New Cities Out of Old - newCities.org

As several catastrophes hit Mexico, the United States and the Caribbean, Josef Konvitz writes about why it is so difficult to introduce major changes in cities undergoing reconstruction.  The following article appeared in the September issue of the Greenfield Cities Alliance Newsletter produced by the New Cities Foundation. The Alliance is well-represented in Africa, where the issues raised by this article are especially relevant.  

Free Event at RMIT: EU Climate Diplomacy Film Screening "Thirty Million" & Panel Discussion

Jun 19 2017 18:00
Australia/Melbourne
Swanston Academic Building 80, Level 1, Room 2 (large theatre)
RMIT City Campus, 445 Swanston St
Melbourne
Australia  Australia

Bangladesh is often described as the most vulnerable country on the planet in the face of a changing climate. Bangladesh is predicted to lose 17 percent of its land by the end of the century if global sea levels rise by one metre. That has the potential to displace 30 million Bangladeshis.

Australasian Housing Researchers Conference 2017

Feb 15 2017
Feb 17 2017
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT, Swanston Academic Building
445 Swanston St
Melbourne

Shelter is a basic need and the Australasian Housing Research Conference seeks to tackle the issues around sustainability, adequacy, equality, renewal, architecture. legislation to the economies of providing safe and affordable housing.  The theme of Global Inequalities fits well within the UN Sustainable Development Goals and takes developing world issues to the urban crises. 

2017 Heart of the Community Grant Applications are open!

Southwest Airlines and Project for Public Spaces are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2017 Southwest Airlines Heart of the Community grant!

Placemaking Newsletter | Key Takeaways from Vancouver

In this issue: Key takeaways from Vancouver; Placemaking and the New Urban Agenda; Jane Jacobs on funding great places; Chamber musicians are placemakers too! ; and PPS joins the Clinton Global Initiative.

Placemaking Newsletter | Catch the Placemaking Week Livestream!

This newsletter connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issuesnewsquotesplaces, and events from the placemaking movement:

ABC Radio National explores Europe through 'Crisis and Creativity' series

Europe as an idea of fairness, democracy and freedom is under attack. Radical nationalists are using fear of immigration to shift voting patterns around the world, and Europe is the epicentre. But underneath all this there are creative responses, ones that can only happen with a shift in perception and certain childlike belief.

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