Jodi Dubyoski

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  • Stickiness & Place Attachment

    A critical component of the WHY of Placemaking has to do with how space makes people FEEL: We use the term “stickiness” to describe a place that people return to and linger in. Stickiness is created by co-locating uses and activities in ways that support each other AND by an environment that supports lingering, like…

  • The Psychology of Place

    Here’s a sneak peek from a talk I’m giving in a few weeks about placemaking for local businesses. In this diagram, I’m borrowing the structure from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to talk about the foundational elements of creating stickiness and place attachment. My thinking around this work lately has been influenced by perpetual re-reads of…

  • Three Ways to Remove Barriers to Affordable Housing in Urban Neighborhoods

    Note: this post was originally published on the FORM Coalition blog in January 2021. Since then, Strong Towns has launched their Housing Ready Cities resource, which includes these three policy initiatives as well as three others that together make it easier to build more homes on a local level. Here are three things every city…

  • Applying an Equity Lens to the 15-Minute City

    If you, like me, have been scrolling the internet a lot over the past year, you may have come across the term “15-Minute City,” or even (recently) its more provocative cousin, the “1-Minute City.” The 15-minute city (or occasionally, the 20-minute city) is an urban planning concept that’s gained mainstream popularity as COVID-19 has forced…

  • Resilience & Regeneration

    “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” ― Wendell Berry In September, this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows was announced. If you’re not familiar with this award, it’s…

  • More Than Buildings

    We kicked things off last month by talking about density (if you missed it, check it out here), but cities are made up of a lot more than mixed-use apartment buildings and missing middle housing. Let’s be honest, places are more than buildings. The practice of creative placemaking asks: what about the public realm? By…