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“Put the most important space in the most public space”: Lessons from South Africa’s Constitutional Court

By Megan MacIver on Jun 20, 2011 | Add Comment
This spring in Dayton, OH, PPS collaborated with local partners to host a forum with Albie Sachs to learn from South Africa's Constitutional Court, built in an architecture of place.
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that fosters a strong sense of place.

Using a Fence to Unite College and Community

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
By using recycled road signs to beautify a chain link fence, this small Pennsylvania town shows how a low-cost, high-impact project can bring the college and the local community together.
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Downtown Traverse City, MI in early July during the National Cherry Festival. Image © Courtesy of Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau

Place-based Governance: Michigan Leads the Way

By Project for Public Spaces on May 13, 2011 | 17 Comments
A new Special Message to the Michigan State Legislature puts an unprecedented focus on Placemaking at the state and local levels.
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Justice Albie Sachs

Join Justice Albie Sachs in Dayton, OH for a discussion about post-apartheid South African courthouse design

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 21, 2011 | 2 Comments

PPS and GSA’s Public Building Service are longtime partners working to achieve great federal public spaces.  On April 28, 2011 from 10am – 12pm, PPS and GSA are facilitating a presentation and discussion featuring Justice Albie Sachs, a founding member of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, in Dayton, OH. The event will take place [...]

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Ed McMahon argues billboards are a form of pollution.

Billboards: the Case for Control

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 4, 2011 | 4 Comments
McMahon argues that billboards are not only unsightly but also damage community character.
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In Oak Cliff, Texas, community members initiated the process of right-sizing their street by orchestrating a temporary right-sizing event. Photo from Go Oak Cliff

Right-Sizing the Street: Not Just for the DOT Anymore

By Aurash Khawarzad on Mar 30, 2011 | 8 Comments
Communities are realizing that the network of streets permeating their neighborhoods is not sacrosanct territory but public space they can play an active role in planning and shaping.
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Human Cities Book Cover

A New Guide to Public Space Planning in Europe

By Andrew Lappin on Jan 11, 2011 | 1 Comment

For those looking to learn more about current developments in the planning of urban public space, the new book Human Cities is an excellent guide to a different approach towards designing cities.  Rather than focusing on a “definition of what is (or is not) urban public space,” Human Cities offers new methodologies for thinking about and [...]

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Las Vegas City Center

A Soul for Sin City: Placemaking in Las Vegas City Center

By Ken Farmer on Oct 8, 2010 | 3 Comments

Possibly the biggest gamble in the history of Las Vegas, City Center has recently opened in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip with underwhelming results.  The 76 acre, 16 million square foot development offers a mixed-use, urban lifestyle previously unavailable in Las Vegas. It is designed by some of the world’s foremost starchitects, [...]

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35 safety planners, police commissioners, and government leaders from South Africa, Kenya, and Namibia

Safer Communities Through Placemaking: PPS visits Johannesburg

By Megan MacIver on Sep 30, 2010 | Add Comment

Making great places means making safe places: in many ways, Placemaking and crime prevention have always gone hand in hand.  And this summer, PPS’ Cynthia Nikitin traveled to South Africa to bring the concept of place to the UN Habitat Safer Cities Programme at the Safe and Resilient Cities Capacity Building Workshop. This [...]

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Downtown Glasgow draws visitors from all over Europe. Flickr Photo by Ray Devlin

Scott Taylor Enlivens Glasgow with “Place Based Experiences”

By dkitzes on Aug 13, 2010 | Add Comment

Until a few years ago, no one could have imagined that Glasgow, a city of about 588,000 people, located on the Clyde River, could become one of the hottest destinations in Europe. The secret, according to Scott Taylor, Chief Executive of the Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, is a “place based” marketing strategy that is [...]

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Like many cities,the Harborfront of Whithy, England, hosted many industrial land-uses.

7 Great Resources to Turn Your Waterfront Around

By Megan MacIver on Aug 10, 2010 | Add Comment

As PPS gears up to host its Waterfronts Synopsis Conference next month on sustainability and Placemaking in Stavanger, Norway (Sept. 15-17),  waterfronts have been on our mind.   In today’s evolving economy, many urban waterfronts have recently been liberated from heavy industrial uses and are on the verge of transformation. Often a central and beautiful [...]

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Eric Reynolds, Master of Low-cost, High-return Public Space Interventions in London and NYC

By Megan MacIver on Aug 9, 2010 | 7 Comments

“Lighter, quicker, cheaper:”   three words to sum up a revolutionary, low-cost, high-impact strategy to development, one behind all of Eric Reynolds’ projects at Urban Space Management (USM), a firm known for driving the economic renewal of run down or under-utilized spaces in imaginative and cost effective ways.  Reynolds urges a movement away from “mega-schemes” [...]

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