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“Build it and they will come” sounds confident until the project is finished and nobody comes. The Neighborhood Playbook, a placemaking guide built around testing what people actually respond to before making larger investments, turns 10 this year. Carlee Alm-LaBar revisits it with coauthor Joe Nickol of Yard & Company and Max Musicant of The Musicant Group, asking what a decade of use says about planning places through action instead of prediction. The tension between planning and doing remains: how much should a place decide up front, and how much should it discover through action?
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES
- "Activating Spaces and Developing Places with "The Neighborhood Playbook"" by John Pattison, Strongtowns.org
- Downzone:
- Strong Towns National Gathering in Sacramento, California June 4-7 2027 (Site)
- More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales by Robert Bly (Book)
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded by David Graeber (Book)
- Daily Dad (Site)
- Hell on Wheels (Site)
- Carlee Alm-LaBar (LinkedIn)
- Joe Nickol (LinkedIn), Yard & Co. (Site)
- Max Musicant (LinkedIn), The Musicant Group (Site)
- Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom.
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