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Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design Announces 2013 Awards

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 12, 2013 | Add Comment

Today the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) announced four organizations selected to host design workshops in rural communities. CIRD workshops bring together local leaders, non-profits, community organizations, and citizens with a team of specialists in design, planning, and creative placemaking to address design challenges identified by the community.

Selected by an [...]

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Citizen Placemaker: Nathan Martin on Prototyping a [Semi-]Public Space

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 10, 2013 | Add Comment

In our Citizen Placemaker series, we chat with amazing and inspiring people from outside the architecture, planning, and government worlds (the more traditional haunts of Placemakers) whose work exemplifies how creating great places goes far beyond the physical spaces that make up our cities.

The Bayardstown Social Club is a Lighter, Quicker, [...]

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Food For Thought: Why Barcelona’s Markets Are “Super” Places

By Project for Public Spaces on May 30, 2013 | 2 Comments

When you think of the important places in the social life of your community, what comes to mind? Parks, squares, street corners, libraries, schools—these are common answers in many cities. They are the public spaces where we relax, where we meet friends, bump into neighbors; in short, the places that we all share. But there [...]

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Streets That Work

By Mark Plotz on May 21, 2013 | Add Comment

I heard a good one the other day. It was in one of those emails that had been forwarded ten or twenty times like a chain letter of bad jokes. This one was actually funny; it was in celebration of the idiosyncrasies of the engineer. One of the jokes really nailed an endemic problem we [...]

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Five Essential Elements of a Placemaking Campaign

By Project for Public Spaces on May 16, 2013 | 2 Comments

Lately, as we analyze the information generated through the inaugural Placemaking Leadership Council and begin planning the future of a larger effort to promote Placemaking as a social cause, we have been thinking a lot about what all goes into a successful campaign. Some of our most exciting and fulfilling work over the years [...]

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Making the Journey a Destination: Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail Debuts

By Project for Public Spaces on May 10, 2013 | 1 Comment

Back in 2007, we highlighted the Indianapolis Cultural Trail project in Bold Moves, Brave Actions, a feature that looked at five cities on five continents making exceptional strides toward becoming more people-friendly places. Indy, we wrote, was “taking what may be the boldest step of any American city towards supporting bicyclists and pedestrians” [...]

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The 10 Greatest US Public Markets That Met the Wrecking Ball

By David K. O'Neil on May 5, 2013 | 7 Comments

This guest post features a collection of wonderful historic postcards and photos from the private collection of PPS markets consultant David K. O’Neil. We thank him for allowing us to share them with you here!

It is no secret that market halls, market sheds, and market districts were once more prevalent in American cities [...]

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Five Jane’s Walks Focused on Community Resilience

By Project for Public Spaces on May 3, 2013 | 1 Comment

The fact that Jane Jacobs’ name is so often attached to the idea of gentrification today seems a cruel irony. Jane’s writing was focused on how to create strong neighborhoods that fostered robust social networks; she was far from a “NIMBY”, and her interest in preservation was more about economics than aesthetics. Unfortunately, the complexity [...]

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Book Review: Handmade Urbanism: From Community Initiatives to Participatory Models

By Brendan Crain on May 2, 2013 | 6 Comments

As citizen-driven urban action becomes increasingly potent and well-disseminated, the tension between spontaneous, bottom-up improvements and top-down planning and policy is thrown into higher and higher relief. As often as that tension might manifest through loud, messy confrontations, a great deal of it simply takes the form of confusion. The bottom-ups and the [...]

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Expanding the Rightsizing Streets Guide

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 30, 2013 | Add Comment

Today we are unveiling several new resources within the Rightsizing Streets Guide. We’re excited to share with you an interactive map featuring more than fifty successful rightsizing projects from around the US. We’ve also added two new full case studies to the guide. The case studies, contributed by the Congress for [...]

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Residents in Exeter, RI used a “Places of the Heart” map to identify parts of town that they value most as well as areas of concern.  / Photo: Orton Family Foundation

Community Wisdom + Expert Knowledge = Good Community Design

By Ariana McBride, Orton Family Foundation on Apr 23, 2013 | 2 Comments

Have you ever been at a meeting about a community issue and heard the statement, “We don’t need some outsider coming in and telling us what to do”? I know I have. This phrase points to a common challenge I see when working in rural communities—balancing the value of community input with expert knowledge in [...]

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9 Communities Selected to Receive Free Place-Based Sustainability Technical Assistance

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 22, 2013 | 1 Comment

This Earth Day, Project for Public Spaces and our partners at Livability Solutions are pleased to announce the 9 communities selected to receive free technical assistance in 2013, thanks to a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Sustainable Communities under their Building [...]

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