WRITINGS
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Creative Placemaking Implementation Plan (Upham's and Four Corners)
This paper is a rich "show and tell" of how we used creative placemaking to surface diverse intentions for public space near two underused commuter rail stations in Boston. Working with residents, artists and merchants, we brought hundreds of community members together to create solutions, possibilities and new connections.
How do we go about telling ourselves the truth? How do we intervene in our own narrative devices? What stories have swallowed whole…about ourselves, about heroes and villains, about what it means to win? There is gut wrenching work to be done here.