Focusing on urban lovability over livability, and harnessing citizens inherent capacity to give love to the public spaces of their city, can more affordably, quickly and sustainably bring a community to new heights of livability.

Check out #PlacemakingX ’s presence on TikTok, with interviews and highlights from our #GlobalPlacemakingSummit : tiktok.com/@placemakingx?…

Great piece on the problems with Columbus Circle and 57th St, which I think we all know but rarely see discussed. And this is an insightful, thorough write up of problems and solutions, which complements our vision for the start of the Broadway Linear Park.

Connecting Central Park and the Center of the City

Congestion pricing offers an opportunity to reconnect Midtown Manhattan to our greatest public space
sociallifeproject.org/connecting-cen… by Fred Kent

#ParksWithoutBorders

Announcing PlacemakingUS' 'Public Realm Roundtable!' A gathering of public space leaders, in Brooklyn, June 13-16!

placemakingus.org/public-realm-r…

Partnering with Ya-Ting Liu & her NYC Office of the Public Realm, Pratt Urban Placemaking and Management, Marron Institute, Social Life Project, Street Plans, PlacemakingX...

Disappointing to see the privatizing landscape urbanism dominating the new public spaces along the Gowanus Canal.

Hopefully the next phases can lead with public life to ensure successful, safe and inclusive development.

All cities have to watch this. The temptation to count 'private' spaces as 'public' parks is all too real.

Ethan Kent Gowanus Alliance PlacemakingUS PlacemakingX #WaterfrontPlacemaking resources to lead with active and inclusive public spaces that attract and inform better design and development: sociallifeproject.org/tag/waterfront…

“ #Placemaking supports and challenges us to take responsibility for the world beyond our private spaces, and creates the conditions for broader concern and capacity when it comes to taking care of our environments.”

We're thrilled with the growing global reach of #ThePlaceMan , now translated into 20 languages by #PlacemakingX leaders around the world!

The 19 min movie tells the story of the roots of the #placemaking movement which aims help everyone become a 'Place Man' or 'Place Woman!'

Neighbor Power w/ Jim Diers of #NeighborPower and @PlacemakingUS: youtube.com/watch?v=emb-Gd…

The 4th season of 'Making It Happen' interviews with #Placemaking X leaders is now out from Azbah Ansari of Peacemakers Pakistani. Including many #Placemaking luminaries.

They all can be found here, along with past seasons: youtube.com/@peacemakerspa…

#Placemaking Pakistan

#ThePlaceMan , the movie about the roots of the #placemaking movement, is now available in 20 languages!

Directed by Guillermo Bernal, about Fred Kent of Social Life Project.

REPORT FROM THE 60TH INTERNATIONAL MAKING CITIES LIVABLE (IMCL): The conference assessed the challenges ahead, but also the progress made, encouraging opportunities and inspiring examples to celebrate. Please join us for the 61st in Cortona, Italy! imcl.online/post/60th-imcl…

We’re excited to be speaking at MIT Urban Planning today with their international SPURS fellows.

MakingCitiesLivable Fred Kent Social Life Project Ethan Kent PlacemakingUS Krista Nightengale The Better Block Madeleine We presented the state of the #placemaking movement, and the results of the #GlobalPlacemakingSummit to the MakingCitiesLivable: linkedin.com/pulse/reconnec…

#IMCL60

Seaside Institute MakingCitiesLivable Origins of the placemaking movements’s work on #PlaceGovernance at Project for Public Spaces: pps.org/article/toward… #IMCL60

Ryan Smolar: New York has moved from “hey, man, I’m walkin’ here” to “hey, man, I’m chalkin’ here.” #IMCLspring24

“It takes a place to create a community and it takes a community to create a place.” - Ethan Kent, PlacemakingX
#IMCL MakingCitiesLivable

We’re at MakingCitiesLivable with Fred Kent of Social Life Project giving a plenary. #IMCL60