Welcome to the PPS Press Room! Below please find links to major articles written about and by PPS. You can also download a copy of the PPS Brochure.
For media inquiries, please contact Brendan Crain at 212-620-5660 (x321) or by emailing bcrain@pps.org.
Articles About PPS
Below are feature length articles written about PPS’ work and interviews with PPS staff members. For more up to date links to PPS project work in the news, check out our blog.
A SoHo Visionary Makes an Artsy Bet in Miami (Tony Goldman, PPS Board Member)
by Terry Pristin – The New York Times
The Biggest Little Park in the World
by David Jost – Landscape Architecture Magazine
Public Spaces Make a Difference in NYC
by Sarah Ripplinger – Momentum Magazine
Grand Designs
by Eleanor Sheath – Green Places
The Place Doctor
by Barbara Palmer – Convene (PCMA)
Impresario of the Village Green
by Elizabeth Giddens – The New York Times
Public Space Provacateur
by Cynthia L. Kemper – Urban Land Magazine
The Art of Placemaking
by Kathleen Ziegenfuss – The Urbanite Magazine
Going Public
by Steve Garmhausen – Urban Land Magazine
Pride of Place
by Rob Gurwitt – Governing Magazine
Smart Growth Is Great, When Done Smartly
by Steven Pearlstein – The Washington Post
Great Public Spaces – Instructive Lessons From Here & Abroad
Shared Wisdom: Preaching the Gospel of Place
by Susan Hines – Landscape Architecture Magazine
Articles By PPS
A selection of articles written by PPS staff members for various publications.
Working Together
by Cynthia Nikitin - Recreation and Parks BC Magazine
“By working together and pooling their unique strengths and areas of expertise, these institutions and the communities around them can identify their true potential to better serve the public by tackling common challenges.”
The Upside of a Down Economy
by Fred Kent - Urban Land
“The stumbling global economy…are being balanced by a surge of interest in things local: production of local food, promotion of local businesses, preservation of local character, improvement of public spaces, and perhaps most important, the rediscovery of meaningful ways to belong to a community.”
From Cow Town to Our Town
by Cynthia Nikitin - Public Art Review- Issue 39 – Vol. 20
In this piece on suburbia, shared space and public art, Nikitin asks: Is public art part of the American Dream?
“Public art can begin to create a mental shift. It can help a community begin to redefine and reimagine the notion of shared space, shared values, and collective common interests”
Place Making Around the World
by Fred Kent - Urban Land
“At the same time, the United States is incubating another growing trend that holds great promise for how people across the planet will live in the future. But this trend gets far less media attention. At the heart of this movement is place making—a set of ideas about creating cities in ways that result in high quality spaces where people naturally want to live, work, and play.”
Community-Based Street Design
by Gary Toth and Renee Espiau - Smart Growth Network
“While early streets were designed to be sensitive to their context and to serve the communities in which they were located, post-World War II street planning and design shifted focus to serving our desire for speed. Fortunately, there is a new and growing movement to look at streets in their broader community context.”
Pedestrian Paradise
by Jay Walljasper - Utne
“All across the land, people are speaking up, organizing meetings, fighting city hall and, in some cases, working with city hall to make streets safer and more pleasant for pedestrians”
Creating ‘Places’ that Work
by Kathy Madden - Planning Commissioners Journal No. 43
“From our experience, placemaking requires a radically different approach than is used by most designers today. In contrast to the traditional design or planning process, a place-oriented approach is necessarily broader than one that is primarily design driven.”
Paradise Lost, Again
by Fred Kent - The New York Times
“We need to remember that it is still our responsibility to insist that our city parks are open to everyone all the time. Otherwise, we will get used to being shut out of them, and they will become the same empty, useless spaces they were 20 years ago.”