Placemaking

“Placemaking is the process through which we work together to shape our public spaces. Rooted in community-based participation, Placemaking involves the planning, design, management and programming of shared use spaces. More than just designing spaces, Placemaking brings together diverse people (including professionals, elected officials, residents, and businesses) to improve a community’s cultural, economic, social and ecological situation.” - Project for Public Spaces

Projects

We bring public spaces to life by planning and designing them with the people who use them every day. Following, is a sampling of the group’s placemaking projects:

OUTSIDE NY

Garden center retail shop, Williamsburg, Brooklyn: adaptive reuse of 2000 sf interior space and 5000 sf exterior space. Wrote business plan that secured $500K in investment capital

GreenBranches

18 gardens designed at historic Carnegie libraries in all 5 boroughs of NYC: public/private partnership among 3 library systems, 3 city botanical gardens, department of sanitation, corrections, and The Horticultural Society of NY

The Community School at Cape Cod Tech

Adult Workforce development - Horticulture and Maintenance course facilitation

RISE

Rockaway Beach, NY: RISE: Studio recommendations for community development and climate resiliency planning after Hurricane Sandy

Skate Park Project

Brooklyn Skate Garden/Pablo Ramirez Foundation & NYC Parks Department

Yankee Stadium Skatepark

Garden design and planting plan for new skatepark at Yankee Stadium with NYC Parks Department

The Old Stone House

(Historic House Trust of NYC) 1699 Dutch farmhouse and gardens, site of the Battle of Brooklyn: Garden fundraising

Flatbush Community Board 15

Land Use Recommendation: proposed Green Zone, as adaptive reuse measure for former 'manufacturing' designation: Land Use zoning change and economic development

9/11 Chapel Garden

At NYC Office of City Medical Examiner: Memorial garden and chapel for family remains identification, 2002 - 2017: Architect: 1100 Architects

Not for Profits & Community Organizations

Lands Cape manages grant, technical assistance, and leadership programs that help local partners to transform their public spaces.

Businesses

We bring your employees and customers together to transform neglected public spaces into community gathering places.

Charitable Donors

Public spaces bring communities together – artists, educators, neighbors, businesses. Public health, social resilience and economic development all benefit from placemaking.

Contact Alice

Great public spaces strengthen communities. They are the places where celebrations are held, social and economic exchanges occur, friends run into each other, and cultures mix.