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Winter Cities: Happy December in Ljubljana, Slovenia

By Ethan Kent on Jan 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

Temperatures average below freezing during the darkest month of the year in Slovenia.  However, the country’s public spaces are overflowing thanks to a government program called “Happy December,” designed to infuse life into downtowns.

Several concerts take place each day in [...]

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TOWN SQUARE: Getting Unstuck in the Middle

By jwalljasper on Dec 1, 2008 | Add Comment

How placemaking can lift medium-sized cities from the doldrums

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In Town Square, PPS Senior Fellow Jay Walljasper explores great places throughout our communities.  He analyzes current issues affecting Placemaking, highlights what works best on the ground level, and reports from unexpectedly interesting spots around the world.

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Medium-sized cities seem are more [...]

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PPS and MPC Bring Placemaking to Chicago!

By Robin Lester on Nov 25, 2008 | Add Comment

In Chicago, PPS recently teamed up with the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) to provide training to both local officials and community leaders focusing on community-led Placemaking initiatives, and to assist them in setting up a Placemaking campaign for the city. The partnership includes the recently-published Guide to Placemaking in Chicago, which [...]

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Speaking Engagement: Cynthia Nikitin speaks at Hope Institute’s 4th Public Design Exhibition and Seminar, Korea

By Project for Public Spaces on Nov 11, 2008 | Add Comment

Cynthia Nikitin travels to Seoul Korea to speak at The Hope Institute’s 4th Public Design Exhibition and Seminar. The topic is Design Imagination for Better Community.

She will also speak on the recent translation of How to Turn a Place Around into Korean!

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Placemaking at Monument Circle

By Robin Lester on Sep 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

PPS is working with the grantees and partners of Inspiring Places Initiative of the Central Indiana Community Foundation to build capacity for Placemaking in the Indianapolis region. One focus of this effort has been on Monument Circle, one of the city’s most iconic public spaces. The Circle, which hosts numerous events throughout the year, has [...]

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Placemaking Catalyzes New Life in Providence Square

By hmanshel@pps.org on Sep 11, 2008 | Add Comment

 

Several months after a PPS Placemaking Workshop, Providence’s Kennedy Plaza is bustling. There are live Rhythm and Soul concerts every Sunday, a Farmeri’s Market Fridays and a Market Bazaar with food, antique, art and other vendors on Thursdays. Throughout the summer there have been a variety of programmed events including [...]

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Appleseed Projects Enhance Community

By Robin Lester on Aug 13, 2008 | 1 Comment

PPS has begun work with the Texas-based Appleseed Project, seeking to reform how and where mixed use developments are built.  Aiming to bring amenities to existing communities and reduce reliance on the automobile, businessman Brett Sheldon has plans to build smaller-scale mixed use complexes to areas already populated with housing.  The developments will [...]

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NYC Places

By Robin Lester on Aug 5, 2008 | Add Comment

Most of us here at PPS live, work and play in New York City.  Here are a few tidbits from our corner of the world!

Art in Odd Places, an annual event dedicated to exploring the city’s public spaces using performance and installation art, will take place in October.  This year’s location [...]
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Road Diet, Parks Planned for the Bund in Shanghai

By mkodransky@pps.org on May 30, 2008 | Add Comment
Photo Courtesy of China Daily (April, 2006)

East-1 Zhongshan Road in Shanghai’s landmark Bund area is about to get a serious road diet. Decades ago, it was a tree-lined boulevard that served as a gateway to the region’s financial and global trade core. Today, it looks more like a moat full of vehicle [...]

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GSA Improves Federal Plazas in Syracuse and Denver

By Robin Lester on Apr 23, 2008 | Add Comment

The General Services Administration (GSA) and Project for Public Spaces are currently partnering on an initiative to improve federal plazas that extend into urban communities in 24 American cities. The partnership has resulted in a free publication titled Achieving Great Federal Public Spaces: A Property Manager’s Guide.

The tools and initiatives developed [...]

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Discovery Green Opens in Downtown Houston to Great Fanfare

By mkodransky@pps.org on Apr 15, 2008 | 2 Comments





Photos Credit: Tom Davis

Thousands of revelers and recreation seekers came out for the opening of downtown Houston’s first park, Discovery Green. The new 12-acre park boasts an interactive water feature, amphitheater, children’s playground, dog run, spacious green lawns, public art works and restaurants. All [...]

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Park to Reconnect City Center with One of the World’s Greatest Waterfronts?

By mkodransky@pps.org on Apr 1, 2008 | 1 Comment

 

The Western Distributor in Sydney wouldn’t be the first urban freeway to be dismantled so a community could access the waterfront. The Embarcadero Freeway in SF was demolished after an earthquake in 1989. The Miller Freeway in NYC has become a successful waterfront park and recreation area. And, tearing down the [...]

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