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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...
Imagine a place where you can stroll down the sidewalk, wave to your neighbors on their porch, then pick up your dry cleaning or have lunch...
Seattle’s Yesler Terrace was the first racially integrated housing project in the U.S. Today, it remains a multicultural nexus for the city....
George Leonidas Leslie was perhaps the most sensational—and successful!—criminal in American history. An architect by training, he planned a...
Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallas’ police chief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority co...
How does a small group of people change politics? The Free State Project wants libertarians to concentrate themselves in New Hampshire and p...
How do you solve a problem like the suburbs? For one man in Arizona, it means creating an agricultural utopia, replete with picket fences an...
Three stories from St. Louis highlight different ways to combat urban blight, from fighting urban decay on MLK Jr. Drive, to turning vacant...
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard was a thriving commercial district beloved by New Orleans’ African-American community....
Washington, D.C., may be the political center of the free world, but its 670,000 residents don’t have a say in the national legislature. Wha...
Philadelphia has made a mission of making bike share attractive to low- income and minority residents, trying to buck the national trend of...
When Bennie Lee was only 13 years old he became a leader of the Apache Vice Lords, an African-American street gang on Chicago’s west side. I...
After punk singer Steven DeCaprio learned how to legally acquire tax- defaulted property in Oakland, California, by squatting, he decided to...
A decade ago, a tornado wiped out the small town of Greensburg. But the town decided to rebuild -- as a totally green community. Ten years o...
Mary Poole has been a nurse, an arborist, a jewelry-maker, and a mom. But she’s never been a politician or an activist. At least not until o...
Over the last 40-plus years, Detroit has seen its economy falter and its population dwindle, leaving thousands of homes empty and starting a...
Chattanooga, Tennessee, has a lightning-fast, publicly-run broadband network that has attracted a lot of tech talent to the city. But as the...
Spirit on Lake looks a lot like any other apartment complex built over the past few years. But something very specific sets it apart from ne...
Majora Carter embraces the idea of “self-gentrification” in her native South Bronx. She founded a park in a spot slated to become a waste-tr...
It’s no secret that climbing rents are driving many creative entrepreneurs out of popular urban centers. When Seattle book publisher Ed Marq...
Atlanta wanted an end to its public housing projects-- no more pockets of poverty, crime, and despair. In the 1990s, the city started tearin...
To understand the stories we'll tell on Placemakers, you must understand the ultimate placemaker: Jane Jacobs. She lacked formal training in...
Starting August 1, host Rebecca Sheir introduces you to people facing challenges and trying to make a difference in 18 different communities...