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What is Placemaking?
Placemaking revitalizes neighborhoods by designing public spaces that foster community. It highlights the unique character of a place and local assets, while driving local economic development.
Walkable, bikable communities designed for people, not cars that are aesthetically pleasing and offer social activities bring in more young professionals and keep local graduates local. By improving placemaking, Northeast Anchorage could be a desirable community for working professionals and young families to live, while providing a destination for kids to play and people to shop.
PLACEMAKING RESOURCES
A Citizen’s Guide to Creative Placemaking by Nikki Navio
What If We Built Our Cities Around Places? Project for Public Spaces
How is it done?
Anchorage hired consultant Roger Brooks in 2022, and he did a great job providing recommendations for the Municipality and for specific neighborhoods including Northeast Anchorage in this report and corresponding video.
Our goal should be for people to come TO Northeast Anchorage, not THROUGH it.
Muldoon Town Center didn’t turn out how the community envisioned it, but the parking lots and giant box stores of the present don’t have to be the future of our community’s center.
“Downtowns should be about people, not cars.” – Roger Brooks
In the interest of not re-inventing the wheel, check out this amazing resource from the nearby Fairview Community Council which is undertaking similar work: Winter City Guidelines
Mountain View also did a great job with placemaking. Their murals, scupltures, and pole banners were part of their Neighborhood Plan.
Muldoon Community Page 