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Summer 2006 Internship Opportunities at PPS

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 8, 2006 | 6 Comments

Job Openings

Summer 2006 Internship Opportunities

Cover letter and resume should be submitted by Sunday, March 12
by midnight to: Internship Coordinator, Arianna Martinez at amartinez@pps.org

The three-month internship is offered to graduate students in planning or related
fields. We seek students who are passionate about preserving vibrant existing
public spaces [...]

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Upcoming Speaking Events with Fred Kent, San Diego, CA

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 8, 2006 | Add Comment

Fred Kent, President of PPS, is participating in two events in San Diego, CA, on March 14 and 15:

“Creating a Sense of Place,” March 14, 7:00 pm
Fred will be giving a lecture at UCSD as a part of the Helen Edison Lecture Series. For more information on the event, please visit: Continue Reading

New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign and Exhibit

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 3, 2006 | 2 Comments

PPS is excited to announce to you an exhibit we have just opened at the Urban Center Galleries at the Municipal Art Society. The exhibit Livable Streets: A New Vision for New York is the public kick off of the New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign that PPS is running with Transportation Alternatives [...]

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Hamilton CAN Gets Inspiration from PPS

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 3, 2006 | Add Comment

The town of Hamilton, Ontario, looks to PPS’s lists of the
best squares in North America and the squares most in need of improvement for inspiration to improve the public spaces in their community, and to plan for a downtown that is a great place for people.

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If You Build It, They Will Come — on Foot

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 21, 2006 | Add Comment

Jay Walljasper writes on the emerging movement to reclaim public spaces, from Copehagen to Bellevue.

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PPS Placemaking Workshop a Success in Cambridge, CAN

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 13, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS delivered a seminar and workshop on creative urban planning to design and planning students, members of the public, local politicians, and organizers from Heritage Cambridge this past weekend…the results were nothing short of remarkable.

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Upcoming PPS Speaking Events

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 7, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS is participating in several conferences and events in the next few weeks in: Madison, WI; Miami, FL; Trenton, NJ; and Richmond, CAN. For more information on any of these events, please visit the links below:

February 16: Phil Myrick will be the keynote speaker at the 2006 Wisconsin Business Improvement District Conference, giving a [...]

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Plan to Revitalize Mississauga’s City Center Hailed by Community

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 2, 2006 | 4 Comments

PPS’s vision of transforming Mississauga’s city centre and civic square into a lively public space – complete with parks, a tea house, a farmers’ market and a wedding chapel – is being hailed as an effective way to revitalize some very dead space.

“These seem like very good suggestions,” said Ken Greenberg, a Toronto urban [...]

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Oviedo Residents Visit Site of New Downtown Park and Town Center

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 25, 2006 | 5 Comments

PPS’s Kathy Madden and Meg Walker led the group around the site, and conducted a Placemaking workshop to illicit the community’s vision of what the new park in Oviedo, FL, will be.

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Orange Country Sows Seeds for One of the Nation’s Biggest Urban Parks

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 24, 2006 | Add Comment

Ethan Kent, PPS Vice President, notes that several of the parks Orange County officials visited on a fact-finding mission are included on PPS’s Hall of Shame due to their emphasis on design, rather than amenities to serve the community’s needs.

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Give the Suburbs a Place to Gather

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 9, 2006 | Add Comment

When it comes to creating great places that inspire the public, it’s the spaces between buildings – not the structures themselves – that matter most.

Fred Kent and Benjamin Fried discuss how flashy, iconic design often gets in the way of creating great public spaces in this editorial in Newsday.

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An Uncommon Feature for an Orlando Development: Public Space

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 9, 2006 | Add Comment

To set apart the development of a downtown block in Orlando, FL from other office towers and condos, Project for Public Spaces was hired to turn the area into a people-friendly public place that will enhance the sense of community. The complex will include a sculpture garden, rooftop garden, a courtyard with a fountain, and [...]

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