Let’s Talk About Placemaking! A New Publication

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Welcome to the inaugural edition of

Let's Talk About Placemaking

The Canadian Urban Institute is pleased to share a new, magazine-like publication called Let’s Talk About Placemaking which includes 100+ placemaking projects from practitioners across Canada, released today in Montreal at LUMINO PRO.

The projects and concepts highlighted shine a light on the diverse ways communities can embrace placemaking - from transforming parking lots into vibrant plazas to integrating arts and culture into urban design, these initiatives demonstrate the adaptability and impact of placemaking as a practice.

Whether you are a policy maker, placemaking practitioner, developer, or engaged urban champion, join the dialogue on placemaking today and discover how it can transform your urban places.

Let's Talk About Placemaking

CUI believes that the future of Canadian municipalities is bright when placemaking is well embedded at the heart of urban development.

Let’s Talk About Placemaking will help formalize placemaking as a driving framework for addressing some of Canada’s most pressing challenges, from supporting local economies and building social cohesion, to advancing climate resilience. The insights gathered here can offer evidence to inform urban development and scale placemaking as a pan-Canada priority.

Let's Talk About Placemaking

100+

Practitioner insights From Across Canada

Areas of Return on Investment

Domains of

flourishing

Dimensions of

impact

Approaches to placemaking

Placemaking Definitions Distilled

As urban areas face challenges like isolation, exclusion, rapid growth, and climate change, placemaking has become an essential tool for building adaptable, equitable, and resilient communities.

In Let’s Talk About Placemaking, we outline how an evolving, collaborative process of placemaking transforms streets, neighbourhoods, and city centres into spaces where people feel safe, welcome, and proud, fostering a true sense of belonging that enriches the collective well-being of all who live, work, and play there.

Let's Talk About Placemaking