We've prepared this list of resources from local and national placemaking organizations, including the Department of Housing and Community Development and its partners, to give project-specific guidance and to serve as a primer to placemaking and its possibilities for your community. Keep scrolling to find resources on getting started with placemaking, best practices, health and wellness projects, small business-centric advice, street, pop-up, and demonstration projects, winter placemaking, parklets, creative placemaking, and funding resources.
PEOPLE - Equity in Placemaking
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
Guide Creative Placemaking for Welcoming Communities
Homelessness in Parks: An Inclusive Practices Guide
Improving Health Outcomes Through Placemaking
Rural Voices: Cultivating Citizen-Led Design
Metathemes Report - Design Impact
Making Temporary Events Accessible
PLACE - Characteristics of a Great Place
Navigating Main Streets as Places: A people-first transportation toolkit
PROCESS - Community-Led Placemaking
Activating the Main Street Approach Through Placemaking
The Place Game: How We Make the Community the Expert
Locally Led Neighborhoods - Visioning Exercise
8 80 Cities Civic Engagement Tools
Community-led Demonstration Project Policy + Guide
Hiring Artists: RFPs, Calls for Entry and Commissions
Placemaking Education Resources
Community Led Placemaking Manual
Engaging with Local Electeds and Agencies
Involving Neighbors and Stakeholders
VCRD Community Leadership Guide
GUIDES for SPECIFIC TYPES OF PLACEMAKING
Arts and Culture
Places of Possibility: Public Art and Placemaking Toolkit for Rural Communities
Creative Placemaking: Sparking Development with Arts and Culture
Asphalt Art Guide: How to Reclaim City Roadways and Public Infrastructure with Art
Action Plan for Vermont's Creative Sector
VTrans Art Installation Guidance
Beautifying and Greening
The Guide to Green Infrastructure
Establishing a Neighborhood Beautification Program
Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Programs
Street Improvements
Demonstration Project in Vermont Right-of-Ways
Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery
Make your Street a Play Street! A step-by-step toolkit
Parklets
Rutland's Downtown Parklet Pilot Project Form
Montpelier's Parklet Guidelines + Application
Reclaiming The Right Of Way: a toolkit for creating and implementing parklets
Pop-Ups
The Pop-Up Placemaking Toolkit
Local Food Access
Winter Placemaking
Winter Design Guidelines: Transforming Edmonton into a Great Winter City
Winter Downtown Activation Strategies
Distancing
Design for Distancing Ideas Guidebook
Business
A Friendly Business Guide For Outdoor Expansion Tactics
MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, PRICING and POLICY
Burlington's Quick Build Design + Material Standards
Materials and Equipment Pricing
Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials and Design
Making Temporary Events Accessible
MEASURING PROGRESS and IMPACT
Measuring and Evaluation Resources
Measuring What Matters: DIY Toolkit
Evaluating and Measuring Impact
Storytelling and Documentation
Toolkit: How to Measure Progress
FUNDING
Equitable Park Funding Hub from City Parks Alliance
Downtown and Village Funding Directory from DHCD
Community Challenge Grants from AARP
Animating Infrastrcuture Grants from Vermont Arts Council
National Endowment for the Arts Grant Program
Rural Placemaking Innovation Challenge from the USDA
Municipal Planning Grants from DHCD
Building Equity for Native Communities
VERMONT PLACEMAKING PROGRAMS AND PARTNERS
All 2020 Better Places Pilot Projects
Better Connections Program/Story Map
Vermont Community Garden Network
Vermont Agency of Transportation