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Additional Resources

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment

The articles and guides in this section are great resources from other websites. You may find these tips and tools useful in your effort to transform your civic space.

10 Steps to Creating Pedestrian Cities
Metropolis Magazine

“Transform the city from a car-oriented place to a people-friendly one.” Copenhagen has done just [...]

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PPS’s Approach to Civic Centers

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Civic spaces and public buildings should be extensions of the community. They are the “front porches” of our public institutions — our post offices, courthouses, museums, libraries, and seats of government. If they function in their true civic role, they can be the settings where celebrations are held, where exchanges both social and economic take [...]
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Making the Case

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Good buildings can make a great difference to tenants and visitors, as well as to the community and city at large. The research reports, success stories, and FAQs files in this section can help you to explain how better buildings and public spaces can improve an area’s property values and revenues, enhance the [...]

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Re-Imagining Brooklyn’s Inner Core

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | 1 Comment

AS WE BUILD OUR CITY, LET US THINK THAT WE ARE BUILDING FOREVER. – John Ruskin

Defining the Challenge

Without a doubt, Brooklyn is a great place to live. Its historic brownstone districts are among the best urban neighborhoods in the world. With walkable streets, compact retail districts, and a mix of both small and [...]

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Featured Civic Centers Projects

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PPS applies its unique approach to civic centers, libraries and other public institutions in communities across the world. These services include professional training, civic space auditing and evaluation, pre-design services, conceptual design and development, and Placemaking workshops. Each Civic Centers project represents a key step towards transforming civic spaces and public buildings into extensions of [...]
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Public Art

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A primer on setting up and funding a public-arts program. Included is info on designing a public-art policy, potential sources of funding, building a constituency, and marketing the program.
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How PPS Can Help Your Civic Center

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The Civic Centers Program offers technical assistance and training to municipalities, civic institutions, developers, architects, building managers, and others interested in improving public buildings and the spaces around them. The main focus is on ground floors, the public spaces surrounding existing buildings, and the interface between those public spaces and nearby streets, sidewalks, and privately [...]

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Making Public Art Work

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Written by PPS Public Art Program Director Cynthia Nikitin, this article explains how to make art with -- and not just for -- the public. [Sculpture Magazine]
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Planning & Visioning

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Build a vision for transforming the public realm of your building.
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Federal Spaces, Civic Places

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Nationwide (1999-Present). As a contractor for GSA’s Good Neighbor Program, PPS works to help create safe, attractive, and people-friendly public spaces around courthouses, post offices, and other buildings owned and leased by the country’s largest urban landholder.
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Civic Centers Planning Services

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The Civic Centers Program offers technical assistance and training to municipalities, civic institutions, developers, architects, building managers, and others interested in improving public buildings and the spaces around them. The main focus is on ground floors, the public spaces surrounding existing buildings, and the interface between those public spaces and nearby streets, sidewalks, and privately [...]

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Toolkits

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The articles and guides below provide overviews and “how-to” details on a number of issues, from slowing traffic to obtaining a vending cart.

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