Public Art • Placemaking • City Design
Austin’s City Council approved a ground-breaking arts and culture plan for the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-Bike Trail, a ten-mile loop around Lady Bird Lake in the center of the city. Bressi led a team of planners and artists who … Continued
It’s right there in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence: “the pursuit of happiness” is an inalienable human right, one that our nation is conceived to secure for its people. Unfortunately, we have been reminded over and over … Continued
Dunwoody is the latest city in the Atlanta region to ramp up a public art program, and they’ve turned to our team for help. On this project, I’m collaborating with artist Graham Coriel-Allen and project assistant Maya Curtis. You can … Continued
The City of Cuyahoga Falls approved its first-ever public art master plan on December 23. The plan, which Bressi wrote in collaboration with a community-based Advisory Committee, focuses on three themes for projects that are unique to Cuyahoga Falls: Set … Continued
Bressi was a featured speaker in the Delaware County Planning Commission’s workshop series, Enlivening Your Downtown through Placemaking. He spoke about the logistics of creative placemaking — establishing a strategy, building meaningful partnerships, finding funding and hiring the right artist. … Continued
Nearly two years after Jeroen Koolhass and Dre Urhahn first visited Philadelphia, their vision for the transformation of Germantown Avenue is nearly complete. Follow the press reports below. WHYY “Establishing a There on Germantown Avenue with Big Bold Colors”
The Places journal website is highlighting a photographic portfolio and essay on the High Line from winter 2011. Joel Sternfeld took the photos, and I wrote the essay with Hugh Hardy. We were the first to publish Joel’s photographs and … Continued