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Offbeat
3:46 pm
Tue February 14, 2012

Creating a sense of place

A view of Detroit's Campus Martius Park
(campusmartius.org) /

Michigan’s realtors say communities need to rethink how they design and use public spaces.    They say it could affect Michigan’s future economic growth.

It’s a concept called ‘placemaking’.     The idea is to make public spaces, like small parks, into places people want to be that become magnets for business investment.

Detroit’s Campus Martius  is cited as an example of how this has been done well.

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