The Quest to Make the Perfect Place
Imagine a place where you can stroll down the sidewalk, wave to yourneighbors on their porch, then pick up your dry cleaning or have lunch at the café...
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All communities face certain challenges. But some people see challenges as opportunities. On Placemakers, we bring you stories about the spaces we inhabit and the people who shape them. Join us as we criss-cross the country, introducing you to real people in real communities — people who make a difference in how we travel, work, and live. You’ll never look at your community the same way again.
Paid Podcast: Uniting a Neighborhood
Seattle’s Yesler Terrace was the first racially integrated housing project in the U.S. Today, it remains a multicultural nexus for the city. The Seatt...
When Good Placemakers Go Bad
George Leonidas Leslie was perhaps the most sensational—and successful!—criminal in American history. An architect by training, he planned and pulled ...
A City of Blue Ribbons
Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallas’ policechief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority communities a...
Live Free or Die
How does a small group of people change politics? The Free State Projectwants libertarians to concentrate themselves in New Hampshire and promoteliber...
The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World
How do you solve a problem like the suburbs? For one man in Arizona, itmeans creating an agricultural utopia, replete with picket fences and a communi...
Fighting Blight in the Gateway City
Three stories from St. Louis highlight different ways to combat urban blight,from fighting urban decay on MLK Jr. Drive, to turning vacant lots into l...
Paid Podcast: Elevating the Neighborhood
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard was a thriving commercial district beloved by New Orleans’ African-American community. After deca...
The Warrior on the Hill
Washington, D.C., may be the political center of the free world, but its670,000 residents don’t have a say in the national legislature. What they do h...
Building a Better Bike Share
Philadelphia has made a mission of making bike share attractive to low-income and minority residents, trying to buck the national trend of bike-share ...