FAQs

Placemaking is about improving the quality of public spaces and the lives of the people who use them. It's about transforming public spaces, creating beauty and delight, inducing civic pride, connecting neighborhoods, supporting community health and safety, growing social justice, promoting environmental sustainability, and nurturing a sense of place. 

Placemaking can be implemented in various places, such as an entire downtown district, a neighborhood, or a single street corner to improve the local quality of life.

Placemaking projects help to transform everyday public spaces into active places that breed engagement and connect people to where they live, work, learn, and play. Placemaking can be a powerful economic development tool, and improve quality of life by turning everyday spaces into places where people want to be. Placemaking projects present opportunities to highlight unique aspects of a city's history and draw attention to areas that are important to community life.