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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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PPS Evaluates Anchorage’s Downtown Market

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 26, 2006 | Add Comment

Phil Myrick and David O’Neil traveled to Anchorage to visit the city’s markets and meet with businesses to better connect the markets to the city’s main retail area.

Image (c) Anchorage Daily News

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Interstate Anniversary: Time To Consider The Road Ahead

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 25, 2006 | Add Comment

Toni Gold, a Senior Associate of PPS, writes this piece in the Hartford Courant on the 50th anniversary of the interstate highway system, and takes a look at what the future of transportation holds.

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Flint, MI: Vehicle City

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

Flint is a city that was built around cars, yet remarkably, for a city that was planned for everything but people, there are still some great people working to create a genuine “Steets Rennaissance,” writes PPS Vice President Ethan Kent in his correspondence to the Streets Blog.

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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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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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PPS Brings Placemaking Training to Bellingham, WA

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 6, 2006 | Add Comment

Fred Kent, Ethan Kent, and Juliette Michaelson of PPS visited Bellingham, WA last week, and trained 75 city staff, council members, and community leaders in the principles and techniques of Placemaking.
The Mayor of Bellingham, Mark Asmundson, who has also attended PPS’s “How to Turn a Place Around” training, wrote [...]

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New Public Market Envisioned in Tucson, AZ

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 27, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS is assiting with the development of a new public market that will feature 48 vendors in an open-air shed, and is helping to ensure that the market represents the community that is 79% hispanic.

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Advice for a New Public Square (PDF)

By bfried@pps.org on Jun 26, 2006 | Add Comment

Cynthia Nikitin, Director of PPS’s Civic Centers Program, addressed an audience at the University of Waterloo (Ontario) last week about the city’s plans for a new public square and library. The Waterloo Record published this article about Cynthia prior to her talk. Among the questions she tackled were how to overcome the fixation on parking [...]

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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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PPS Presentation in Chappaqua, NY

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

Town officials are encouraging residents to express their opinions Tuesday night on how to enhance the quality of life in downtown Chappaqua.

Meg Walker, PPS Vice President, gave a presentation at the town board meeting on Tuesday, June 13. 

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