Public Spaces and Transportation

RESEARCH PAPER: Resilience through Placemaking: Public Spaces in Rotterdam’s Climate Adaptation Approach (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)

Comfort and Image: How to Create a Welcoming Place (Project for Public Spaces)

Sociability: Public Spaces as an Antidote to Isolation (Project for Public Spaces)

Uses & Activities: How to Create Multi-Purpose Places (Project for Public Spaces)

Investing in Excellence: Supporting and Sustaining Markets (Market Cities)

Protecting Street Vendors for Stronger Market Cities (Market Cities)

Getting to Market: How Public Markets Drive Opportunity (Market Cities)

How Markets Make Our Communities Resilient (Market Cities)

Emerging Social Hubs in Brooklyn: Building Back Better (Collaboration with the Social Life Project)

Who Owns the Intersection Defines the Social Life of Neighborhoods (Collaboration with the Social Life Project)

To Save the Planet, Start With the Social Life of Sidewalks (Collaboration with the Social Life Project)

You Asked, We Answered: How Can Public Space Managers Help Fight COVID-19? (Collaboration with Nate Storring)

Public Space Management and the Nitty Gritty of Inclusive Placemaking (Collaboration with Nate Storring)

A Playbook for Inclusive Placemaking: Community Process (Collaboration with Nate Storring)

Programming for Inclusion: Enhancing Equity through Public Space Activation (Collaboration with Nate Storring)

Inclusive by Design: Laying a Foundation for Diversity in Public Space (Collaboration with Nate Storring)

Multi-Use Cemeteries: A Place for the Living in the Land of the Dead

This is how some cities are adapting to climate change (Global Commission on Adaptation)

Resilience Roundup: Public Spaces Fighting Climate Change

Ordinary and Extraordinary Circumstances: Mike Fisher on Post-Disaster Placemaking

Community-led Solutions in a Housing Crisis: Engaging Youth in Eugene, Oregon

The Key to Safe Streets: Five Cities Humanizing Street Design (Collaboration with Nidhi Gulati)

Placemaking Takes Root in China

Taking Back Main Street in Hailey, Idaho

Wandering the Wuhan Waterfront: Hankou Jiangtan Park

Places for People in Eugene, Oregon

Cultivating Place: Refugees and Urban Gardening in Baltimore

What Does Placemaking Sound Like: Sound Places in Louisiana

What the (Young) People Want: A Q&A with Setha Low

If We had $50 Million: 5 Big Ideas for Sidewalk Toronto's First Year (Collaborative piece with Nate Storring)

Still Waiting for a Nice Place to Sit

Google's Urban Experiment in Toronto: A Q&A with Sidewalk Labs' Rit Aggarwala

Placemaking with Staying Power: Kresge Report on Sustaining Public Spaces 

Great Places in the Great Lakes State: 20 Years of Placemaking in Michigan

Not Your Average City Hall: Placemaking takes Center Stage in Philadelphia

Pittsburgh and the Resurrection of Public Space

Minneapolis: At the Corner of Arts and Justice

Houston's Community Places can be Hubs for Recovery 

When Hate Comes to Your City: Charlottesville and the Militarization of Public Space 

Sun, Sand, and Sidewalks: Transforming Salisbury, Massachusetts

Climate Change and Food Systems Writing

Policy seminar: The true cost of eating right – are nutritious diets becoming more accessible? (International Food Policy Research Institute)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change (Warm Regards Podcast)

Dragons and Data: Telling the Climate Story (Warm Regards Podcast)

Policy seminar: Animal agriculture in a changing climate (IFPRI)