{"id":3731,"date":"2025-07-17T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:00:40","slug":"new-city-initiative-alert-spaces-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2025\/07\/17\/new-city-initiative-alert-spaces-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"New City Initiative Alert &#8211; &#8220;Spaces for You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3732\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1278px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3732\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2025\/07\/17\/new-city-initiative-alert-spaces-for-you\/spaces-for-you-images\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?fit=1268%2C523&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1268,523\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Spaces for you images\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?fit=300%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?fit=648%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-3732 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?resize=648%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Visual images of use of public spaces in Boston.\" width=\"648\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?w=1268&amp;ssl=1 1268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?resize=300%2C124&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?resize=1024%2C422&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spaces-for-you-images.png?resize=768%2C317&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Source: Boston Planning Department.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In line with the way the Wu Administration has been seeking to emphasize systemic planning instead of project-based development review, they&#8217;re now out with a new initiative on public spaces they&#8217;re calling &#8220;Spaces for You&#8221; and which they describe at a very high level as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Spaces For You<\/strong>\u00a0is a collaborative and proactive initiative by the City of Boston to co-create, enhance, and celebrate public outdoor spaces that foster joy, belonging, and well-being for all residents. It seeks to bridge the gap between community needs and city resources, knitting together public and privately generated open spaces to create vibrant social places for all.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project page can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonplans.org\/spacesforyou\">here<\/a> and note that there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/form.typeform.com\/to\/EFeP6Zsr?typeform-source=www.google.com\">brief survey<\/a> in which they&#8217;re seeking some initial feedback. Go ahead and let them know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In line with the way the Wu Administration has been seeking to emphasize systemic planning instead of project-based development review, they&#8217;re now out with a new initiative on public spaces they&#8217;re calling &#8220;Spaces for You&#8221; and which they describe at a very high level as follows: Spaces For You\u00a0is a collaborative and proactive initiative by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,151,32,61,27,16],"tags":[648],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-events","category-government","category-parks","category-paths","category-vision","tag-spaces-for-you"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-Yb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}