The Sidewalk Ballet Field Guide

The Sidewalk Ballet Field Guide is a growing collection of people, organizations, projects, books, ideas and ongoing conversations about cities and the people who shape them. It grows out of the podcast, but extends well beyond it—connecting the people doing the work, the places where it’s happening, and the ideas, experiments and resources worth carrying forward. Think of it as part reference library, part trail of breadcrumbs: a way to follow the conversation wherever it leads.

Explore by type, browse alphabetically or by date, or search for something specific. Follow the tags to discover connections—or explore the map to see where the people, projects and ideas in the Field Guide take us.

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Hundertwasser Toilets

The Hundertwasser Toilets turned a small public restroom in Kawakawa, New Zealand, into an unlikely civic landmark. Designed by artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser using recycled materials, colorful ceramics, organic forms, and living vegetation, they demonstrate how even the most utilitarian public infrastructure can become an expression of place.

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Kady Yellow

Kady Yellow is a creative placemaking practitioner and Vice President of Placemaking and Activations at Downtown Vision in Jacksonville. Through PlacemakingJax and a career spanning public art, Pop-Up Civics, and community-led activation, she works to give people a meaningful role in shaping the places they call home. Also, someone wrote a song about her.

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Project for Public Spaces

Project for Public Spaces is a global nonprofit that has spent more than 50 years helping communities create and sustain public spaces. Through placemaking, training, convening, research, and advocacy, PPS champions gathering places shaped with—and cared for by—the people who use them.

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