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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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Summer Nights drew more than 7,000 people to the streets of LA's Chinatown

Chinatown Summer Nights Lights Up LA’s After-Dark Scene

By Megan MacIver on Sep 24, 2010 | 3 Comments

In LA, Chinatown is known as the spot to savor dumplings, noodles, bubble tea—and now, with the huge success of Chinatown Summer Nights, a summer festival that emerged from PPS’ CRA/LA Placemaking Academy, it’s also become a new, bright light in the city’s downtown after-dark scene.

LA’s Chinatown Summer Nights expands on [...]

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Park features like this fountain at Discovery Green keep visitors of all ages coming back to Houston's once desolate downtown core.

PPS Park Projects Spur Downtown Development in Houston and Detroit

By Megan MacIver on Aug 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
A recent Washington Post article by JoAnne Greco of The City Traveller focuses on the power of parks to spur economic growth.
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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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Pike Place Market is the center of a vibrant and historic Seattle neighborhood

Carol Binder, Leading Pike Place Into Its Next 100 Years

By Megan MacIver on Aug 11, 2010 | 1 Comment

Known as the “Soul of Seattle,” Pike Place Market draws more than 10 million visitors each year to its colorful stalls and lively streets, making it one of the most frequently visited destinations in all of Washington State.  Founded in 1907, Pike Place is much more than a market and stands at the center [...]

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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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Join PPS at the First International “Waterfront Synopsis” Conference

By dkitzes on Jun 24, 2010 | 3 Comments

Join PPS on September 15-17, 2010 for “Waterfront Synopsis”, an international gathering around the topic of “Placemaking and Sustainability” on waterfronts hosted by Project for Public Spaces, Inc. (PPS) and the Nordic Urban Design Association (NUDA) in Stavanger, Norway.

The goal of the Synopsis is to [...]

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The Waterfront at Granville Island

The Magic is in the Mix: Creating Great Multi-Use Destinations

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 11, 2010 | 9 Comments
Planners, developers and city officials converged on Granville Island in Vancouver for PPS’ forum.
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Fayetteville Street seen shortly after reopening to vehicles

City Plaza Brings New Life to Downtown Raleigh

By Craig Raphael on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment

Raleigh, North Carolina is one of the fastest growing cities in the south, but until recently, its downtown was largely deserted after 5pm. Now, local leaders are making bold strides to bring new life to the historic city center. At the center of this effort is Fayetteville Street, the once failed pedestrian [...]

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One of the "placeless" blocks of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway

Rose Kennedy Greenway “A Design Disaster”

By Ethan Kent on Apr 30, 2010 | 5 Comments

Jane Jacobs made famous the isolating effect of Boston’s Central Artery on Boston’s North End.   As she is celebrated this weekend with Jane’s Walks around the world, the situation in Boston reminds us that few of her lessons have truly been learned by the professionals planning cities today.

As Jane Jacobs said, [...]

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“Smackdown” with Frank Gehry

By Craig Raphael on Jul 13, 2009 | 117 Comments

Gehry responded first in the blog, explaining that he didn’t really want to be at the Festival and that at age 80, he gets “freaked out by petty annoyances.” He also charged that Kent (who remained unnamed in Fallows’ first two blogs and Gehry’s response) was “intent on getting himself a pulpit” and [...]

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