Let’s Talk About Placemaking was created as a resource to inform, inspire, and open new conversations around public space planning. Through project spotlights, policy innovations, and strategic insights from experts, the publication highlights the potential for placemaking to create thriving, resilient communities.
Let’s Talk about Placemaking will be launched at the CUI’s annual State of Canada’s City’s Summit on December 5, 2024.
Unable to attend? Find the visual resource published here soon!
The Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) is the national platform that houses the best in Canadian city building — where policymakers, urban professionals, civic and business leaders, community activists and academics can learn, share and collaborate from coast to coast to coast. CUI championed the community of practice, starting a movement of placemaking leading to Canada’s Placemaking Community.
PlacemakingUS is a national network organized to unleash community power to build living, interconnected places together. PlacemakingUS supports communities across the United States to transform their public spaces into thriving hubs of social connection, health, prosperity, and joy with a focus on frontline communities affected by destructive urban planning and social inequities.