Placemakers
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 â people who make a difference in how we travel, work, and live. Youâll never look at your community the same way again.
- Website
- http://www.slate.com/placemakers
- Description
- 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 â people who make a difference in how we travel, work, and live. Youâll never look at your community the same way again.
- Language
- đŹđ§ English
- last modified
- 2024-03-14 14:53
- last episode published
- 2016-12-05 09:00
- publication frequency
- 6.56 days
- Contributors
- Slate Magazine / Panoply
- Author
- Slate Magazine
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 22
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- Society & Culture Government & Organizations
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2016-12-05 | 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 cafĂ©.Thatâs the kind of walkable, compact, mixed-use community envisioned by thefounders of New Urbanismâi... |
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| 2016-12-05 | Seattleâs Yesler Terrace was the first racially integrated housing project in the U.S. Today, it remains a multicultural nexus for the city. The Seattle Housing Authority and its partners at JPMorgan Chase have been hard at work rebuilding and rejuvena... |
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| 2016-11-28 | George Leonidas Leslie was perhaps the most sensationalâand successful!âcriminal in American history. An architect by training, he planned and pulled off a series of record-breaking bank robberies throughout the late 1800s and arguably ushered in the m... |
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| 2016-11-21 | Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallasâ policechief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority communities andpolice. His reforms made an impact. The number of people killed in confrontationswith police fell, j... |
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| 2016-11-14 | How does a small group of people change politics? The Free State Projectwants libertarians to concentrate themselves in New Hampshire and promotelibertarian causes. Thousands have already moved, and thousands more are on theway. But not everyone is hap... |
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| 2016-11-07 |
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 communitygarden. He was inspired by one of our era's  most scathing critics of suburbansprawl: James Howard K... |
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| 2016-10-31 | 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 lush cornergardens. Whether itâs one street, one garden or one tree, it gets easier to imaginechange wh... |
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| 2016-10-31 | In the 1950s and â60s, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard was a thriving commercial district beloved by New Orleansâ African-American community. After decades of disinvestment, the boulevard has turned a corner and is starting to blossom, once again, into a... |
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| 2016-10-24 | Washington, D.C., may be the political center of the free world, but its670,000 residents donât have a say in the national legislature. What they do have is aânon-voting delegateâ in the House of Representatives. Eleanor Holmes Norton canintroduce legi... |
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| 2016-10-17 | 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 usersbeing white, rich, educated, and male. The city has moved bike stations intononwhite neighborhood... |
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