#Placekeeping
Another example. This is “Raindrop Plaza” a couple blocks away at Dundas East and Coxwell Avenue. A former channelized right turn lane and parking lane converted into an urban parkette, with rainwater capture, pollinator gardens, and Indigenous placekeeping.
July 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Placekeeping: Setting a New Precedent for City Planners

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Placekeeping: Setting a New Precedent for City Planners
How a preservation-based approach to redevelopment and urban design can prevent displacement and honor legacy communities.
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March 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM

The Outsider Preservation Initiative is offering grants for supporting descendant community members who seek ways to preserve Black placemaking, freedom-seeking, migration, and placekeeping heritage through creative storytelling!!!! Apply!
December 18, 2024 at 9:33 PM
I wrote a little ditty about disembedded cities & demolition of housing, aka gentrification, or what some developers--that term itself euphemism--call "placekeeping." www.instagram.com/p/DRXXzxSCpf...
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"This work is about expanding the number of places we identify as Black, and Black-and-historic. It’s about validating places that are often put in the pathway of destruction."

A conversation on placekeeping, from Danielle Purifoy, Andrea Roberts & Maia L. Butler:
placesjournal.org/article/mapp...
Stewarding Black Worlds
Scholars of Black placekeeping discuss ways of mapping Black-founded towns, focusing on the cultural landscapes through which residents and diasporic communities sustain themselves.
placesjournal.org
November 6, 2023 at 7:08 PM
Placekeeping in action: nonprofits on ground floors keep culture & services local.

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#EquitableDevelopment #NonprofitHousing
September 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Indigenous Placekeeping through Tarweed, Free webinar Dec 3, 2025, 7pm PT. Join OSU anthropologist Molly Carney "who has studied Camas & Tarweed cultural practices in the Willamette Valley & worked closely with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde" us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
A giant birdhouse in Hamilton - Chirp and Placekeeping by Ground Magazine - Issuu issuu.com/oalagroundma...
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Chimney Towers and the Return of The Swifts | Chirp and Placekeeping by Ground Magazine - Issuu issuu.com/oalagroundma...
October 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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February 22, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Not CLAMP but I have new work up for this exhibition by Think!Chinatown. Location drawings around NYC Chinatown exploring placemaking and placekeeping; what are the cultural signifiers that make a place, and what does that mean for urban planning?

Tonight at new Think! space 1 Pike St, 6:30PM!
July 18, 2024 at 5:12 PM
How can scholars and practitioners of Black placekeeping represent Black-founded towns in ways that engage the narratives & cultural landscapes through which communities sustain themselves?

A conversation, from Danielle Purifoy, Andrea Roberts, and Maia L. Butler:
placesjournal.org/article/mapp...
Stewarding Black Worlds
Scholars of Black placekeeping discuss ways of mapping Black-founded towns, focusing on the cultural landscapes through which residents and diasporic communities sustain themselves.
placesjournal.org
October 31, 2023 at 11:29 PM
The 35/Archer Orange Line El stop is getting a grant from Elevated Chicago and the CTA to support "creative placekeeping" tied to 35th Street commercial corridor beautification and equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD) hub improvements. Read all about it at mckinleypark.news/neighborhood...
35th/Archer Orange Line Stop Gets Grant from CTA
35th/Archer Orange Line Stop Gets Grant from CTA
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May 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I believe that I'm in love... with Francesca Albanese!
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Someone has created a placekeeping account - @franceskalbs.bsky.social - for her and her team. They haven't [yet] taken it over, but it's already got 9•8K followers, waiting and eager for her/them to move in.

Let's give them a warm welcome!
June 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Placekeeping: Setting a New Precedent for City Planners
Placekeeping: Setting a New Precedent for City Planners
How a preservation-based approach to redevelopment and urban design can prevent displacement and honor legacy communities.
dlvr.it
March 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The second event in the Champinefu series features Indigenous Placekeeping Through Tea! Join David Harrelson on November 12 at 7 PM for a virtual presentation via Zoom about ancestral teas from plants of this region as well as promising new uses. Register here: cbcpl.net/champinefu2
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Now online: Natchee Barnd investigates how public art installations around Oregon are engaging in Indigenous Placekeeping.

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Placekeeping in the Pacific Northwest
Natchee Barnd writes about how public art helps re-mark traditional territories, promote long-submerged traditional art forms, and enhance cultural and spatial practices for Indigenous people.
oregonhumanities.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Moving forward, the ¡Somos Uno! initiative has four main priorities: Governance & Policy, Creative Placekeeping, Belonging and Cultural Equity, and Cross-Sector collaboration. #TucsonCouncil
January 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Terrific! Proactive placemaking can be an outlet and antidote to “place grief” and the negative impacts of tourism.

Our thoughts:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/placem... @ethankent.bsky.social

#Placekeeping #PlaceTourism
Placemaking for Regenerative Tourism
To Drive a Sustainable Tourism What If Local Communities Defined Their Destinations for Tourists to Support? Before the COVID19 pandemic the tourism industry was largely structured to degrade the dest...
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May 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Really looking forward to participating in this, to reconnecting with many #PlacemakingPVD and #PlacemakingRI leaders, and to building on this Indigenous placemaking conversation: www.linkedin.com/pulse/indige...
Indigenous Placemaking and Placekeeping for First Peoples, and for Us All
“From an indigenous perspective #PlaceMakesUs. Therefore we need placemaking to take a more deeply 'place sourced, culture led and community fed' approach and practice.
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August 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I follow a few I know from other places just in case they finally leave the Xitter behind. A lot of placekeeping accounts though.
October 22, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Educators at Arizona State University are launching a new master’s program focused on Indigenous architecture and design. The curriculum draws on Indigenous knowledge from the U.S. Southwest, South America, Asia, and the Pacific — preparing designers to work across cultures.
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Arizona educators offer unique Indigenous architecture degree
Educators at Arizona State University are combining cultural characteristics from around the world to offer a new degree program in Indigenous architecture.The Indigenous Placekeeping and Design…
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April 17, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Reviving Grasslands Through Prescribed Burns at Chippawa Battlefield | Chirp and Placekeeping by Ground Magazine - Issuu issuu.com/oalagroundma...
October 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
UP front: Information on the Ground - Tackling Endangered Species | Chirp and Placekeeping by Ground Magazine - Issuu issuu.com/oalagroundma...
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM