Happy Social Life! Team Social Life Project Reflects on Our Favorite Articles of the Year
As we transition from 2024 to 2025, we want to look back at our articles from the past year and highlight our favorites.
Ethan Kent
Ethan supports public space and placemaking leadership, networks, and impact globally as Executive Director of PlacemakingX. Formerly Senior Vice President of Project for Public Spaces.
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Placemaking for Joy Supports People-Powered Places
The best public spaces enable people to experience and express joy.
Discussion: A New Vision for the Brooklyn Waterfront
The city's and state's vision planning process for the Brooklyn Maritime District presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reconnect our historic Brooklyn neighborhoods to the waterfront and create a significant community destination.
NYC is Stuck in Traffic: Congestion Pricing and Reimagined Streets Can Break Us Free
Congestion pricing is key to improving NYC, but not the only change necessary. Reshaping streets as places for social and commercial life may be the most important way forward.
SHAME - What New Yorkers Have Lost: Dining Sheds That Supported Vibrant Sidewalk Life
NYC's dining sheds have created vibrant social hubs that have revitalized our sidewalks and public life. Now, we are on the brink of losing them and all the wonderful benefits they've brought.
How Placemaking Helps Heal Our Crises of Social and Environmental Disconnection
The two main crises of our time are about disconnection – disconnection from each other and disconnection from the planet. Placemaking brings environmentalism back into cities and towns by connecting it more closely to people’s daily lives.