Data-Driven CityMaking: Evidence-Based Design for People Places

After a little 6-week hiatus, which we promise will end (with a roar) next week, we wanted to make sure we weren’t totally ghosting you and make sure you got your dose of all things placelover and datageek, so please spend the 20 minutes you would have spent with us over the past 6 weeks of blog posts with this seminal Ted-style talk on citymakers must incorporate a more data-driven approach to creating places ALL people love, that can make us happier, healthier, save our planet - and actually maximize the bang (ahem, return on investment) for the buck while at it. PLEASE enjoy! :) And if you’re so inclined, feel free to request a demo or start a free trial (below) to find out exactly how we can help you use data to save time, money, and unlock value across the triple bottom line while getting awesome places done!

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Lucky 8! Your Annual Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide For CityLovers & DataGeeks!
Lucky 8! Your Annual Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide For CityLovers & DataGeeks!

It’s finally back! Check out lucky 8th annual urbanists gift guide, with 11 amazing ideas, sourced from the State of Place team! So happy to bring back this super popular holiday guide after a brief hiatus!

Thankful for Place - 2023 Edition!
Thankful for Place - 2023 Edition!

It’s (finally) back!! Our 6th edition of our Thankful for Place blog series. After a brief hiatus, we couldn’t be more excited to share with you the many places for which the State of Place team is grateful. We strive to quantify the exponential power of place every day - but as Thanksgiving approaches, we can’t help but stop and reflect on some of the most special places that we carry close to our hearts. We wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving and hope you are able to spend time with a place - and people - whom you hold dear!

Colorado Smart City Alliance names State of Place a 2nd time Finalist in Connected Colorado Challenge!
Colorado Smart City Alliance names State of Place a 2nd time Finalist in Connected Colorado Challenge!

We are thrilled to share a little piece of joy with you in the midst of the turmoil….we once again have the honor of being named finalists in Colorado’s Smart City Alliance’s Connected Colorado Challenge (C2) as part of the Safe Streets focus area. We have proposed to apply our AI-driven, built environment data collection and vehicle collision forecasting model to help cities prioritize urban design interventions most poised (from an evidence-based perspective) to help save lives as well as identify and redesign near-miss intersections before any more tragic, preventable loss of life. Download the full proposal and powerpoint via our blog.

The Best of Both Worlds...Seriously
The Best of Both Worlds...Seriously

We are over the moon excited to introduce you to our new strategic partner - 17 Asset Management (17AM), capital connoisseurs who help place-based investors do well by doing good. Together, we will help citymakers and the investment community unleash the power of place - and capital - to foster more just, thriving places!

13 Awesome gifts for city lovers this season!
13 Awesome gifts for city lovers this season!

Our 5th annual Ultimate Gift Guide for Citymakers is out and chock full of inspiring, thoughtful, and whimsical gifts to get you through the rest of 2020. Check out these 13 awesome gift options, no matter what and when you’re celebrating this year!

Our Gratitude for Place(s) in the Midst of 2020...
Our Gratitude for Place(s) in the Midst of 2020...

On this our 5th edition of our grateful for places post, the State of Place family shares why they’re thankful for place this year in particular, and invite you to share your own expressions of gratitude for the places you hold dear.

Data-Driven Love Stories - Quantified!
Data-Driven Love Stories - Quantified!

It’s Valentine’s Day - and we’re feeling the PLACE love!! As per always! So we’d thought we bring you one of our most beloved posts - about a data-driven love story, if you will: how Street Plan’s awesome tactical urbanism “makeover” brought serious love to Asheville, North Carolina. We just nerdified the love a bit with some Os and 1s - but no surprise there. We promise you’ll love this transformation story. This street do-over will not only tug on your heartstrings, it will also show that PLACE love also pays - and quite handsomely at that! So dig in - and fall in love! :)

5 Awesome Places To Walk And Shop for the Holidays
5 Awesome Places To Walk And Shop for the Holidays

Last week, we compiled a list of awesome gifts for the citylover and datageeks in your life. This week, we profiled five awesome, walkable shopping districts, where you can actually shop for some of these gifts - or just walk away the calories you’ve already been piling up using our very own State of Place analysis. Check out which places made the cut and how you can use data to make your place more walkable and livable - and maybe even be profiled here next year, just in time for the holidays!

7 Reasons We're Thankful for Place this Thanksgiving
7 Reasons We're Thankful for Place this Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This is our FOURTH annual installment of our gratitude post - one of our favorite posts of the year where State of Place team members give thanks to special places - and people - in their lives. We also want to thank YOU all for trusting us to help you unlock the power of data to make it easier (and more cost effective) to plan, deliver, and invest in awesome places people love! We hope to help many more of you in 2020 and we welcome you to SHARE which PLACE you are grateful for below in the comments!! :)

And on Dawn of the 8th Year, She Dared
And on Dawn of the 8th Year, She Dared

On this our 8th anniversary of State of Place (or at least the concept behind it), we dare to be bold. And we must all dare to be bolder in order to usher in the power of data-driven placemaking to make inclusive, walkable, sustainable places that will help save our climate - and help us do right by the next generation and respond to Greta Thunberg’s passionate, outrage-fueled, indignantly-justified condemnation of our collective lack of action toward mitigating the climate crisis.

Mariela Alfonzo