Scott Doyon
Scott Doyon is principal, director of client marketing services with Placemakers, a planning, coding, marketing, and implementation firm.
Placemaking is more than a niche market
Placemaking is not a design endeavor. Or a business proposition. Or a public health pursuit. Or an equity concern. Or an avenue for culture and the arts. It’s all of these things.
Creative placemaking: Knowing when to get out of the way
It seems everywhere I turn lately I stumble my way into a conversation on creative placemaking — people looking at the activation of public space as a way to further their personal and collective passions and pursuits.
It’s heartening. I’m a firm...
Gentrification examined from a wider time frame
Your view on the urban investment of today may depend on where you crop the storyline.