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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Apartment Association (AAA) members are throwing their 24th Annual Can Can Ball with a theme inspired by The Great Gatsby.  Come jazzed up in glitter and gold attire, and be prepared to time travel back to the roaring 20’s at this black- tie optional event . The AAA, a multi- family housing trade association in metro Atlanta, invites association members , apartment community vendors , Atlanta residents and Food Bank supporters to participate and help raise funds to provide food assistance to the hungry. Can Can Ball 2014 will take place Friday, August 22 from 8 p.m. to midnight at The Sheraton Atlanta Hotel at 165 Courtland Street NE in Downtown Atlanta. Guests will enjoy an evening full of excitement, including live entertainment for dancing the night away, a selection of delicious light fare from Atlanta-area restaurants, a cash bar and fabulous silent auction items . Event co-chairs are Karen Nelson of Pinnacle and Eric Coryer of Ready Fitness. Last y...

Creative placemaking — a concept that employs a specific strategy to infuse the arts and culture into a space — can be seen in different forms all around the world. There’s Alphabet City cultural center (run by the City of Asylum nonprofit) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where you can soak in a cultural performance , browse through a bookstore, drink a glass of wine, and go back home to your apartment — all without leaving the premises. There’s also the Livable Laneways Project in Vancouver, British Columbia, that “ transform overlooked alleys or ‘laneways’ into vibrant outdoor gathering spaces with a stimulating mix of interventions,” according to the Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit based in New York City, New York, that helps people create vibrant public areas . Now, one creative placemaking project along the waterfront in Berlin, Germany — near where the Berlin Wall once stood — has transformed into a robust urban village . The Holzmarkt urban village has a theater, dance ...