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Reconnecting People Through Places

The Global Placemaking Summit convened 150 of the world's placemaking leaders in Mexico City to set the course for the global movement.

Ethan Kent

Reconnecting People Through Places

The Global Placemaking Summit convened 150 of the world's placemaking leaders in Mexico City to set the course for the global movement.

Ethan Kent

How Placemaking Helps Heal Our Crises of Social and Environmental Disconnection

Placemaking can connect us not only locally, but can also reconnect isolated disciplines and siloed agendas to converge on place.

Ethan Kent

Fred Kent

How Placemaking Helps Heal Our Crises of Social and Environmental Disconnection

Placemaking can connect us not only locally, but can also reconnect isolated disciplines and siloed agendas to converge on place.

Ethan Kent

Fred Kent

The Place Man

After a year of global screenings and previews, we are proud to announce that The Place Man documentary has now officially been released!

Fred Kent

Guillermo Bernal

The Place Man

After a year of global screenings and previews, we are proud to announce that The Place Man documentary has now officially been released!

Fred Kent

Guillermo Bernal

The Global Placemaking Summit

The first Global Placemaking Summit was a fantastic event, and we were inspired by all the excellent placemaking work being done worldwide.

Fred Kent

Guillermo Bernal

The Global Placemaking Summit

The first Global Placemaking Summit was a fantastic event, and we were inspired by all the excellent placemaking work being done worldwide.

Fred Kent

Guillermo Bernal

Streets as Places to Come Together: The Next Evolution for the Transportation Revolution

Getting our streets and sidewalks right means shifting our focus to the social life of our communities.

Ethan Kent

Streets as Places to Come Together: The Next Evolution for the Transportation Revolution

Getting our streets and sidewalks right means shifting our focus to the social life of our communities.

Ethan Kent

What If We Planned Streets To Maximize Life?

Tweede Tuindwarsstraat, in the Jordaan District of Amsterdam, is a street that supports social life, drawing people to slow down and connect.

Ethan Kent

What If We Planned Streets To Maximize Life?

Tweede Tuindwarsstraat, in the Jordaan District of Amsterdam, is a street that supports social life, drawing people to slow down and connect.

Ethan Kent

Next Steps for the Global Placemaking Movement

Using local networks, placemaking campaigns, and catalytic projects as a force for community and global change.

Social Life Project

Next Steps for the Global Placemaking Movement

Using local networks, placemaking campaigns, and catalytic projects as a force for community and global change.

Social Life Project

Build Back Better, Together: 11 Transformative Agendas to Restore Social Life in Your Community

These transformative agendas can be a foundation for the future and a roadmap for communities to improve their "places.”

Social Life Project

Build Back Better, Together: 11 Transformative Agendas to Restore Social Life in Your Community

These transformative agendas can be a foundation for the future and a roadmap for communities to improve their "places.”

Social Life Project

2020, The Year that Turned Cities, and the Placemaking Movement, Upside-Down

A challenging year where it became clearer than ever that our public spaces are essential to our social life, our health, and economic recovery.

Ethan Kent

Josh Kent

2020, The Year that Turned Cities, and the Placemaking Movement, Upside-Down

A challenging year where it became clearer than ever that our public spaces are essential to our social life, our health, and economic recovery.

Ethan Kent

Josh Kent

Our Global Catastrophes will be Solved by Local Communities

The problems we face are global in scale. Yet the frontlines for social change today are in neighborhoods, villages, towns, and cities.

Social Life Project

Our Global Catastrophes will be Solved by Local Communities

The problems we face are global in scale. Yet the frontlines for social change today are in neighborhoods, villages, towns, and cities.

Social Life Project

Actions to Promote Healthier Informal Communities Through Placemaking—PlacemakingX Live Webinar

Speakers will dive into the crucial challenges facing frontline informal communities and showcase ways to support them in mitigating COVID-19.

Giselle Sebag

Ethan Kent

Actions to Promote Healthier Informal Communities Through Placemaking—PlacemakingX Live Webinar

Speakers will dive into the crucial challenges facing frontline informal communities and showcase ways to support them in mitigating COVID-19.

Giselle Sebag

Ethan Kent

Public Spaces are Essential Services Webinar - Recorded Video Now Available

How can we best use public spaces during the COVID19 crisis? How can we support responsible public life? How can placemaking help us recover?

Giselle Sebag

Ethan Kent

Public Spaces are Essential Services Webinar - Recorded Video Now Available

How can we best use public spaces during the COVID19 crisis? How can we support responsible public life? How can placemaking help us recover?

Giselle Sebag

Ethan Kent

World Urban Forum Launch of PlacemakingX

Expanding the Global Network for People-Powered Public Spaces

Ethan Kent

World Urban Forum Launch of PlacemakingX

Expanding the Global Network for People-Powered Public Spaces

Ethan Kent

2019: Our Launch Year

The Year Communities Stepped Up to Lead the Placemaking Movement

Ethan Kent

Josh Kent

2019: Our Launch Year

The Year Communities Stepped Up to Lead the Placemaking Movement

Ethan Kent

Josh Kent

The Growing Latin American Placemaking Movement

Learn more about how the movement got to where it is today.

Ethan Kent

The Growing Latin American Placemaking Movement

Learn more about how the movement got to where it is today.

Ethan Kent

Leading Urban Change with People Powered Public Spaces

‍The History, and New Directions, of the Placemaking Movement.

Ethan Kent

Leading Urban Change with People Powered Public Spaces

‍The History, and New Directions, of the Placemaking Movement.

Ethan Kent

How Placemaking Helps Heal Our Crises of Social and Environmental Disconnection

Ethan Kent

Fred Kent

Streets as Places to Come Together: The Next Evolution for the Transportation Revolution

Ethan Kent

What If We Planned Streets To Maximize Life?

Ethan Kent

Our Global Catastrophes will be Solved by Local Communities

Social Life Project

Build Back Better, Together: 11 Transformative Agendas to Restore Social Life in Your Community

Social Life Project

Next Steps for the Global Placemaking Movement

Social Life Project

SpaceX and PlacemakingX to Partner to Make Place Out of Space

Ethan Kent

2020, The Year that Turned Cities, and the Placemaking Movement, Upside-Down

Ethan Kent

Josh Kent

World Urban Forum Launch of PlacemakingX

Ethan Kent

Actions to Promote Healthier Informal Communities Through Placemaking—PlacemakingX Live Webinar

Giselle Sebag

Ethan Kent

2019: Our Launch Year

Ethan Kent

Josh Kent

El Boom del Movimiento de Placemaking en Latinoamérica

Ethan Kent

The Growing Latin American Placemaking Movement

Ethan Kent

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