THE BENEFITS AND TECHNIQUES TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
“Transformative placemaking focuses on neighborhoods and places at a hyper-local scale. It brings together programs, policies and practices that are intersectional,” said Tracy Hadden Loh, a Fellow at The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program-Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking.
“It combines the best of
economic development and infrastructure and the environmental movement.”
To increase the odds of success, the report suggests that
federal funds flow through to local areas only with “preconditions for growth
present and some assets for investment to scaffold onto,” such as potential
transit-oriented development; anchor institutions like universities and
hospitals; existing initiatives aimed at supporting local entrepreneurship and
business incubation; cultural activity clusters; or commitments to build rural
infrastructure.
“At the local level, we must break down silos [and] get the planner talking to the economic developer talking to the director of public works etc.,” Loh said.
“Anything else is pushing a boulder uphill.
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