Public art and place making in Newtown
Urban Space Management hosted a walkabout in the Newtown Improvement District to showcase some of the new (and newly refurbished) public art in the precinct.
Tagged: placemaking
Meeting in the Middle: problematising placemaking from the ground up
ON THURSDAY 25TH FEBRUARY, THE INSTITUTE AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIONS RESEARCH CENTRE AT MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY IS CO-HOSTING A ROUND TABLE EVENT EXPLORING THE TOPIC OF ‘PLACEMAKING’ FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF...
The Walkable Network
A number of managed areas will fall within the Walkable Network which will introduce initiatives to make the Inner City safer and easier to navigate. The Walkable Network
Parklets: what are they and why they work?
Expert Place Management Consultant, Martin Blackwell, discusses some of the advantages of Parklets, and what they are, in his blog.Parklets: “transforming parking spaces to people spaces”11 February 2020 Citylab.com looks at the history of...
Hope for Joburg
“ITHEMBA LASE KASI: Hope around our neighbourhood” is an initiative in the Makers Valley to create an artwork made up of 1800 hopeful messages about Joburg. These messages will form part of a Wall...
IDA Downtown Achievement Awards
Each year, the International Downtown Association (IDA) recognizes outstanding improvements to downtowns by the work of dedicated individuals around the globe through the Downtown Achievement Awards. [CID Managers] are on the front lines of...
Park(ing) Day reclaims public space
Placemaking Park(ing) Day takes place around the world, on the third Friday in September. A brief history of Park(ing)Day “I like to think of Park(ing) Day installations as the gateway drug for urban transformation,”...
