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Physioexpresso

Your City is a Cultural Center: A Review of the ‘Spacing Out’ Forum

By Natalia Radywyl on Aug 27, 2012 | Add Comment

What do the Lower East Side’s finest scaffolding, North Brooklyn churches, a chocolate factory, and the Staten Island Ferry have in common with something called Physio-expresso? All were on the roster when artists, art administrators, community leaders, urbanists, researchers and policy makers gathered last week in Fort Greene’s South Oxford Space for the [...]

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The Perth Cultural Centre is seen here in full bloom during CHOGM 2011 / Photo: Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority

Creativity & Placemaking: Building Inspiring Centers of Culture

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 16, 2012 | 13 Comments

As much as we prize creativity in cities today, the cultural centers that we’ve built to celebrate it rarely hit the mark. Culture is born out of human interaction; it therefore cannot exist without people around to enjoy, evaluate, remix, and participate in it. So why do our cultural centers so often turn inward, away [...]

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Setting the Table, Making a Place: How Food Can Help Create a Multi-Use Destination

By Patra Jongjitirat on Aug 7, 2012 | 2 Comments

Food – we need it, we love it, and we structure our lives and cultures around it. San Antonio, Texas, is a city that is starting to structure its neighborhoods around it, starting with an ambitious redevelopment project called the Pearl Brewery. Located on 22 acres along the banks of the San Antonio River [...]

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You Are Where You Eat: Re-Focusing Communities Around Markets

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 18, 2012 | 12 Comments

Picture yourself at the supermarket, awash in fluorescent light. You’re trying to stock up for the next couple of weeks, since it’s a busy time of year. You grab some granola bars (and maybe even a box of pop tarts), some frozen dinners, a box of macaroni with one of those little packets of powdered [...]

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The St. Kilda Adventure Playground just outside of Melbourne, Australia / Photo: Fernando de Sousa via Flickr

On Adventure Playgrounds & Mutli-Use Destinations

By Brendan Crain on Jul 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I don’t think I ever once used a “play structure.” I can still vividly remember the playground at my elementary school, with its castles, pirate ships, Amazonian treehouse cities, secret lairs, and rivers of lava. My friends and I never thought of the wooden [...]

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A Revolution in Placemaking

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

Since the Project for Public Spaces was founded in 1975,we have worked in thousands of communities around the world to help people shape their public spaces to create great Places, where locals feel a sense of ownership, and visitors don’t want to leave. Still, for as much fun as we’ve had, something feels different lately. [...]

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How to Turn Dún Laoghaire Around

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 4, 2012 | 17 Comments
A team from PPS recently led a workshop to help residents in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, develop a plan to create a truly extraordinary destination at the heart of their town.
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Remember the Edges!

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
When trying to create a great public square, remember that the inner square and outer square must work together.
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People Are Talking About Placemaking…

By Fred Kent on Nov 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
Placemaking is in the news these days, and it's got us thinking that we are at an exciting moment in history.
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The surprise winner: The Circle in Normal, Ill. Photo: HOERR SCHAUDT landscape architects

Your Picks for the Top 100 Public Spaces in the U.S. and Canada

By Kathleen Toth on Nov 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
Ask yourself, what are the Top 100 Public Spaces in the U.S. and Canada? You might be surprised at the winner of our poll.
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The children of Kibera make soccer balls from waste. Photo: Digital Democracy via Flickr.

A Soccer Field Brings Hope to a Kenyan Slum

By Sarah Goodyear on Sep 23, 2011 | 4 Comments
We talk a lot here at PPS about the power of place in improving people's lives. Here's a story that illuminates that power beautifully.
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The next generation of Bulgarians is ready for change.

Placemaking Takes Off in Sofia, Bulgaria

By Elena Madison on Sep 15, 2011 | Add Comment
PPS's Elena Madison reports that in her hometown of Sofia, people are ready to make a better city for themselves -- an authentically Bulgarian great place.
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