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Libraries Reinvent Themselves with Placemaking

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 15, 2007 | Add Comment

New library designs are moving away from the quiet, institutionalized models of old. The next generation of libraries are using technology and placemaking to create community spaces, where “people can congregate, be comfortable,… meet neighbors and catch up on the news, learn and play and read.”

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Lessons Learned from Downtown Redevelopment

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Small-scale revitalization takes shape in Albuquergue with large-scale impacts. The city opted to redevelop existing buildings, rather than tearing down their history. Small changes have resulted in a unique sense of place with a “human face” in the city’s downtown.

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Developing Community, Not Just Buildings

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Developer Jonathan Rose discusses the importance of community based design. He advocates hollistic planning; grounded in an understanding of community needs like urban sustainability and cultural development.

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Farmers’ Market Traffic Boosts Surrounding Businesses

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 30, 2007 | Add Comment

In an effort to attract more traffic to downtown businesses, one New Jersey downtown partnership planned for a diverse farmer’s market in a plaza, just off of the city’s main traffic artery. Surveys show that 80 percent of the 1,000 weekly market customers, also visited local businesses while at the farmers’ market.

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‘Place-making’ Forum Focuses on Local Flavor

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 29, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS Vice President Ethan Kent was one of the presenters at the Sustainable Tourism Development Forum held in Pawtucket, RI on Thursday, October 25, 2007.

The Providence Journal

By Philip Marcelo

PAWTUCKET— Policymakers, city planners and tourism officials from Rhode Island and neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts gathered downtown yesterday for a [...]

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Public Space Plan Released for Penn Station

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 25, 2007 | Add Comment

The Spitzer administration has released plans for a rebuilt Penn Station, complete with natural light pouring in and a “grand public space” in a new, rezoned business district on Manhattan’s far West Side.
The new plans would also create 7.5 million square feet of mixed use development, including a commercial district that would [...]

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Limitless in $220 million Vietnam mixed use development

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 10, 2007 | Add Comment

Limitless, the Dubai real estate developer and part of the conglomerate Dubai World, has announced it will build a US$220 million, mixed-use project in Vietnam.

The announcement comes as HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai, is on a state visit to Vietnam to discuss bilateral relations.

Halong Star, a [...]

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Despite Objectors, Skateboard Park Idea Grows

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

For one skateboarding advocate here, creating a system of skate parks in West Seattle isn’t just about building places to do aerials and flip tricks.

So far it’s just a blueprint with no funding, but the citywide skate park plan is gaining momentum in West Seattle, fueled by passionate skaters like West Seattle resident [...]

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Mixed-Use Development Impacting Neighborhoods

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

A mixed-use development project that is getting mixed-reviews from resident in Grand Junction, CO.

Mixed-use development is springing up on First and Patterson Streets. People who live in the area say they are concerned about the impact it will have on their neighborhood.

Wendy Hoffman says she’s not sure what to think about the [...]

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PPS Training Courses Open for Registration!

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Registration is now open for our two-day public training courses here in NYC:  How to Create Successful Markets, Oct. 12-13 and How to Turn a Place Around, Oct. 18-19

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Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Aug 3, 2007 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces Vice President, Ethan Kent, writes about Melbourne’s successful new public space development, Federation Square, and a Placemaking training course that he helped lead, which included many city staff, local developers and “place managers.”

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PPS Takes Public Spaces Inventory of Fallon, Nevada

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 17, 2007 | Add Comment

Three urban planners from PPS visited Churchhill County and Fallon, NV, in an effort to inventory and assess local gathering places and destinations around town. 

Phil Myrick, vice president of PPS, and Elena Madison, assistant vice president, presented a list of sites they felt could be better utilized in Fallon. The team, [...]

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