Placemaking is trendy!

Placemaking is a concept that is growing in importance all over the world. While it originated and took off from the Project for Public Spaces out of New York, USA in the 1980s, it is now creating a world-wide community and attracting more diverse professions along the way. Interestingly, while it is fundamentally deployed from the bottom up,  it is also being applied as area-wide and city-wide strategies to address public health concerns, such as: obesity, safety, inclusion and climate action, across multiple contexts and cultures. Most recently, the large-scale “New European Bauhaus” initiative by the European Commission lends from key placemaking elements. 

For your successful advocacy and promotion of your placemaking activities, we recommend you to follow the Placemaking for Active Recreation Kit Policy recommendations for grassroots activists.

Download the Placemaking for Active Recreation Kit Policy recommendations below.