The Power of Placemaking
Learn more about the unique role that community-led placemaking initiatives play in cultivating collective wellbeing.
Download the report and accompanying resources to make your own case for placemaking!
The global pandemic has unleashed the resourcefulness of communities as they support their members through challenging circumstances, building resilience in people and places.
Through the Healthy Communities Initiative, the government of Canada has funded over 1000 pandemic-responsive placemaking projects to date.
Are you fostering a community or a place that allows everyone to thrive, prosper and enjoy themselves in an inspiring setting? Or would you like to?
The Events Calendar can connect you to placemakers and communities across the country. Check out upcoming local gatherings or share your own!
The Community Stories Blog can help you learn and discover how placemakers across Canada are building vibrant local communities and creating a sense of belonging. Do you have a story to tell? Share it with the wider community!
The crowd-sourced Resource Library is designed to support, inspire, and help bring your placemaking projects to life. Do you have a resource to share? It belongs here, too!
Check out these placemaking events happening across Canada! Placemaking is the conscious act of fostering communities that allow everyone to thrive, prosper, and enjoy themselves in inspiring settings. Look for events in your neighbourhood or find one online.
Events bring people together! Share your upcoming activities to the Placemaking Community Calendar while keeping up with events across the country!
Get inspired! Read these stories from the field and share yours! Discover how people like you are building vibrant local communities and creating a sense of belonging across Canada
Check out these placemaking projects for ideas and inspiration to support your community’s efforts!
Canada’s Placemaking Community is organized and curated by the Healthy Communities Initiative team at the Canadian Urban Institute along with our partners. It is funded by the Government of Canada.
