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December 18, 2012
ArtPlace Drives Vibrancy and Diversity through Creative Placemaking

Communities are always changing.  What will help them become more vibrant, diverse and make positive transformations? ArtPlace is an organization whose endeavor is to influence the course of change in a forward-looking way through creative placemaking. Specifically, ArtPlace believes that art, culture, and creativity expressed through “place” can produce vibrant communities, and in turn increase the desire and the economic opportunity for citizens to thrive in that place.

Communities are always changing.  What will help them become more vibrant, diverse and make positive transformations? ArtPlace is an organization whose endeavor is to influence the course of change in a forward-looking way through creative placemaking. Specifically, ArtPlace believes that art, culture, and creativity expressed through “place” can produce vibrant communities, and in turn increase the desire and the economic opportunity for citizens to thrive in that place.

August 24, 2012
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes

April 29, 2011
MASSIVE SMALL - The Operating System for Smart Urbanism

So… top-down, command-and-control doesn’t work for us any more, does it? Those in power tell us that bottom-up is the better way of addressing sustainable growth and change of our cities, towns and neighbourhoods. They may be right. Despite the boom of recent years, we haven’t delivered the quality of place we all wished for. Bigness has been the order of the day and many places have fallen victim to the big bang masterplan. Our thinking, tools and processes for planning, design and delivery in this new normal world are broken. They will not get put back together again!