Placemaking Days Trenčín 2026 – How Trust Grows
November 2–4, 2026 · Trenčín, Slovakia What makes a city a place where people trust one another — and the institutions around them? From November 2–4, 2026, Placemaking Days comes […]
Welcoming Vilnius to Cities in Placemaking!
We’re excited to welcome Vilnius to the Cities in Placemaking programme by Placemaking Europe – a city that is steadily embedding placemaking into both its strategic vision and everyday urban practice.
Innovation for Recovery 2026
Towards a citizen observatory of recovery in Paiporta
The metrics and the place: lessons from Mexico City
Every time I return to Mexico City, I leave with the same renewed question: the city for whom? It is an old debate, but in CDMX it feels urgent and […]
Placemaking Europe Year in Retrospect – 2025 Edition
Introduction From its very first inception at the global Placemaking Week in Amsterdam in 2017, Placemaking Europe’s mission has been to build capacity, strengthen connections and amplify the voices of […]
Philippe Aghion and the caring city
When innovation and inclusion meet: notes on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics
In memory of Kathy Madden (1947 – 2025)
Honouring the woman who taught us to see, and care for, public life
Innovation for recovery: a place-led initiative for reconstruction after flooding in Valencia
When disaster strikes, rebuilding must mean more than returning to the way things were. After the devastating floods caused by the DANA storm in southern Valencia, we are launching a […]
Placemaking Europe Year in Retrospect – 2024 edition
Introduction 2024 was a remarkable year for Placemaking Europe. We celebrated our biggest and most successful Placemaking Week Europe edition to date thanks to our fantastic host city Rotterdam, we […]
Discover the Cities in Placemaking Program
We are proud to share insights from the first edition of Cities in Placemaking—a city-to-city learning initiative that brought together 12 European municipalities to strengthen urban governance through placemaking
