PRESS RELEASE
Date: December 5th, 2001

POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Placemaking gets ASLA approval

New York, NY - Project for Public Spaces (PPS), America's leading public-spaces nonprofit, was recognized twice this month by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), a professional organization with 13,500 members. Not only has PPS' training course, "How to Turn a Place Around."
been accredited for Continuing Professional Development by the ASLA, but it is also featured in Land Online, the ASLA's digital newsletter. In her article, author Susan Hines noted the course's "... fascinating subject matter, witty teachers, interesting guest speakers, field trips, and cool people to hang with... (they) have distilled some basic truths about creating successful places".

"Power to the People" Part One, appears here: http://www.asla.org/members/land/pps.html
with part two to follow.

Information on future ‘How to Turn a Place Around' training
courses can be found on PPS' website, here:
http://www.pps.org/nyc_training.htm

PPS books, including "Public Parks, Private Partners"
and "How to Turn a Place Around," can be ordered online here:
http://www.pps.org/Products/products_publications.html

Project for Public Spaces provides resources, techniques
and tools to help people build great public spaces. A nonprofit,
PPS has helped over 1,000 neighborhoods in 46 states and
12 countries improve their parks, markets, streets, transit
stations, libraries and countless other public spaces. PPS run
training & education programs, sell publications and manage
two websites: http://www.pps.org and http://www.urbanparks.pps.org.

This is one of a series of email press advisories.