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PPS Puts Toronto Waterfront in the “Hall of Shame”

By ksalay@pps.org on Aug 4, 2006 | Add Comment

“Toronto is a city of great diversity, great civic pride and social life, but that’s not apparent when you look at the waterfront,” says Ethan Kent, vice-president of Project for Public Spaces.

Mr. Kent, who runs the organization’s Great Cities Initiative, criticized the “narrow approach to planning and the commercial development that has not taken [...]

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Envisioning a Vibrant Future for Tacoma

By bfried@pps.org on Jul 28, 2006 | Add Comment

To create a world-class civic center in Tacoma, Washington, PPS’s Cynthia Nikitin shares the four key steps that will make Pacific Plaza a vibrant public space.

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Debate Rages on Housing at Planned Brooklyn Park

By Ethan Kent on Jul 23, 2006 | Add Comment

Sunday’s NY Times article cited PPS’s opposition to the existing plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park.  Our critique can be found here: http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=933

An essay by PPS president  Fred Kent on the current Downtown Brooklyn Development efforts including the Waterfront: http://www.pps.org/info/ppsnews/brooklyn_essay

Another recent article about this issue heavily quoting Fred Kent:  http://www2.pps.org/updates/one-entry?entry_id=6531

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Is Portland’s New Park Serving the Community?

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 17, 2006 | Add Comment

Depending on who you ask, the new Tanner Springs Park in Portland, OR, is a boon for the neighborhood, or a bust. According to Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces, the park’s entire concept represents landscape designers putting their egos ahead of public need.

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Injecting Life into Barren Schoolyards

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 14, 2006 | Add Comment

An innovative program in Denver, CO, has transformed neglected schoolyards into community centers.

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People are the Focus of Renewal as PPS Envisions Flint, MI as a Destination

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 12, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS staff members Steve Davies, Ethan Kent, and Elena Madison traveled to Flint MI for two days of meetings with city officials, community leaders and stakeholders, and tours of potential sites that could be transformed into vibrant destinations.

PPS will return to Flint for public workshops that will focus on Riverbank Park, [...]

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Watch Fred Kent’s PowerPoint Presentation

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 26, 2006 | 3 Comments

Watch Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces, give his presentation “Creating a Sense of Place”, given in San Diego on March 14, 2006

This presentation and other streaming video programs are available online on UCSD-TV’s web site at www.ucsd.tv.

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Parks Spring to Life from Cracked Asphalt

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

“In a corner of Oakland, residents waged a seven-year battle to revive a litter-strewn, rundown park. Children wrote city officials and even gathered on the cracked asphalt, using chalk to draw their dreams of what the park could be. The renewed park opened in October.

Oakland’s success is being repeated in other cities as [...]

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Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

Please join the Center for the Living City in celebrating the life of Jane Jacobs on Wednesday, June 28, from 5:00 – 7:00, Washington Square Park, in front of the Arch, the site of her first victory over Robert Moses.

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Boston’s City Hall Plaza Now Features a Concrete Slab

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 12, 2006 | 2 Comments

For decades, the fountain in City Hall Plaza has been a maintenance nightmare, with incessant leaks and broken filters and motors.  City officials have found a new solution to the problem: pave it over.

The fountain is now covered by a concrete slab the size of a baseball infield. While some see the possibility for [...]

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Council Endorses San Antonio’s Main Plaza Makeover

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 12, 2006 | Add Comment

The City Council supported a plan for the revitalization of the historic Main Square in San Antonio.  Project for Public Spaces held a public workshop in March, eliciting such ideas from community members as “creating cafe-like environments, pedestrian-oriented spaces and opportunities for vending or sitting and people watching.”

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How a Park Changed a Chicago Neighborhood

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2006 | 1 Comment

“Millennium Park, the $475 million modernist playground that opened at the edge of Lake Michigan here two years ago, has quickly become one of the city’s leading tourist attractions. What is less known, however, is that the 24.6-acre park…has had a transforming effect on the surrounding neighborhood.

In the late 1990′s, the area, known as [...]

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