Selling a lifestyle to people who don’t live it 24/7 means selling them experiences that provide a taste of the lifestyle. Focus on fitting a great experience into a single store visit, a haircut appointment, a coffee with friends. x.com/dvassallo/stat…

Want a preview of what’s coming up on our airwaves this weekend? We’ve posted a complete list with times for your favorite shows on our website! Check it out here: radiofreemontclair.org/programming

Creative placemaking is the process of helping communities strategically engage local arts and cultural activities to address social, economic, environmental and cultural issues. dailygazette.com/2022/03/21/cre…

Benches along walkways so people can watch other people. Simple. Perfect. City building.

Adjacent to the train station in Colombes (greater Paris) a neglected plot got some new mixed use architecture in 2020 combined with renovation of some older buildings. New is also the cobble stones. This is how you densify with 100% approval.

Coming soon to two spots on the Beltline: ajc.com/news/atlanta-n…

RFM Show Tease Promo youtu.be/1MmWvKXLny4 via YouTube

The best #placemaking builds the capacity of communities to further shape their places. While anyone can initiate the placemaking process, ultimately no sector, demographic, or discipline should dominate it, & #PublicSpace can best thrive as everyone's shared responsibility.

Here's where the idea of Walk Appeal was first laid out almost a decade ago. Hoping to get the book out this year. originalgreen.org/blog/walk-appe…

Just finished facilitating a strategy lab to reimagine an underpass in Troy, NY as part of the Northeast Placemaking Communities Summit. HUGE space with HUGE potential steps form Hudson River. How would you activate this space? #tacticalurbanism #troy #placemaking #unitingline

Americans will travel around the world to live in walkable cities for a week & love it, but somehow think building walkable places here is impossible or crazy

Steve Mouzon The foundation of a community is interaction. Fostering interactions at every opportunity should be the first priority of every Architect & Developer Interacting -> Familiarity -> Trust -> Reciprocity "High Trust" societies are the goal (and would solve 80% of society's ills)

See this Instagram photo by @radiofreemontclair instagram.com/p/CgVR7GDLWKu/…

Come spring, I’m going to miss the road diets & safer crossings

Streets are better when they’re filled with people, rather than just parked cars.

BREAKING: Toronto City Council has voted 18-7 to end single-family only exclusionary zoning, allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes in all residential areas of the city. They become the largest city in North America to do so. 📍Toronto 🇨🇦

Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard. For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!

In a world where "public space is for everyone" turns into "stay out of my neighborhood," we see an ironic twist in the narrative of urban development. These past weeks’ celebration of NYC's new congestion pricing by some snarky activists who tell us to “shut up and take the