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Community Resilience, Post-Sandy: Share Your Stories

By Project for Public Spaces on Oct 30, 2012 | 3 Comments

During and after a natural disaster, we truly see the value of community, up close and personal. Neighbors band together to help each other, providing shelter, supplies, and comfort to those who are less-prepared. The bravery shown by first responders drives the point home; seeing so many public servants risking their lives to help those [...]

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Interested in Free Livability Solutions Technical Assistance? Apply by November 2nd!

By Project for Public Spaces on Sep 25, 2012 | Add Comment

Through a grant from the EPA Office of Sustainable Communities’ Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program, the Livability Solutions coalition will be offering free technical assistance workshops for up to 12 communities around the US; applications are due by Friday, November 2nd. Livability Solutions is a coalition of professionals [...]

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Aphrodite interviews a New Yorker on Love TV in front of the city's iconic Flatiron Building / Photo: Love TV

NY ♥’s Love TV: How a Positive Pop-Up Transformed the City’s Public Spaces

By Natalia Radywyl on Sep 17, 2012 | Add Comment

Love was recently high in the air at PPS, as we were regaled with tales of a heartfelt summertime voyage around New York City’s five boroughs, where deeply-held secrets, innermost dreams, and impassioned desires were divulged by locals in the bright glare of broad daylight across public parks, plazas, streets and ferry terminals. Inside a [...]

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How does Placemaking strengthen sustainability efforts, you ask? Great places make people feel like a part of a community that's worth sustaining! / Photo: Fred Kent

Placemaking Connects People to the Environment by Connecting Them to Each Other

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 13, 2012 | 5 Comments

The dialogue generated around the idea of “Placemaking as a New Environmentalism” is showing that this matter of how to engage with building sustainable spaces and places resonates with people across professions. In particular, Kaid Benfield’s articles from earlier this year, Is placemaking a ‘new environmentalism’? and Smart growth is a start. [...]

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Fred Kent Featured on cdmCyclist Podcast

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 19, 2012 | Add Comment

PPS President Fred Kent is featured as the guest on today’s episode of the cdmCyclist, a podcast hosted by Frank Peters in southern California, where we’re looking forward to hosting the Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place conference this September 10-13. Fred not only talks about the important role that walking and bicycling play [...]

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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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PPS to Lead National Endowment for the Arts’ Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 28, 2012 | 1 Comment

Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of our participation in the Orton Family Foundation’s new CommunityMatters Partnership, we are thrilled to share with you the first projects that PPS will be taking on as part of that initiative. Beginning July 1, 2012, PPS will be partnering with CommunityMatters, the National [...]

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Announcing the CommunityMatters Partnership

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Orton Family Foundation, over the last few years, has masterfully coalesced several national organizations all working on key pieces of what a shift in civic infrastructure needs to look like for stronger community-based planning. After some great convenings hosted by the Orton Foundation and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, we are proud to help launch Continue Reading

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The Power of a Ping Pong Table

By Project for Public Spaces on May 3, 2012 | 7 Comments
Crowdfunding is a great way to allow people to literally "buy in" to projects in their neighborhoods--but sometimes the best way to go big is to start small.
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Urbanism Scales Down for Small Towns

By Gary Toth on Apr 17, 2012 | Add Comment
Gary Toth reflects on lessons learned during a bus tour of innovative "Smart Growth" communities around North Carolina, from big cities to small towns.
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New Placemaking Podcasts Available

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 14, 2012 | 1 Comment
Free podcasts of recent Placemaking presentations by Fred Kent and Gary Toth are now available on the Destination Creation website.
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Faking Places: Places are People Too!

By Ethan Kent on Apr 1, 2012 | 1 Comment

We’re excited to announce today that PPS is launching a new campaign to extend First Amendment rights to public places.

As the culmination of our long effort to give voice to places around the country, we have filed an Amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging Constitutional recognition of the inherent personhood of Place, [...]

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