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It doesn’t matter how long you’ve lived here, the region’s public spaces help make it a good place to live for all.  Inspired by MPC’s "What Makes Your Place Great?" Contest, students of English as a Second Language at Poder Learning Center in Pilsen wrote about their favorite public spaces. Check out their essays and read about other great public spaces in Chicagoland.

11 Principles of Placemaking

PPS has developed 11 principles that can be used to evolve public spaces into "community places." Although similar words, "spaces" and "places" have very different meanings. A space is a physical description of a piece of land, whereas a "place" connotes an emotional attachment to the piece of land.

Step-by-Step Guide

How to get started and how to move through a Placemaking process to get improvements implemented.

Join the placemaking movement

Join a network for Placemaking in the Chicago region and around the world.

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