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Strong Programming and Management Bring Life to Downtown Rochester

By agaidus on Jul 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

Rochester, Minnesota is perhaps best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic, one of the top-rated hospitals in the U.S. that employs nearly 33,000 people and attracts over one million visitors annually to downtown.  As part of a larger effort to guide the growth and vitality of the downtown area and entice visitors and [...]

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Fayetteville Street seen shortly after reopening to vehicles

City Plaza Brings New Life to Downtown Raleigh

By Craig Raphael on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment

Raleigh, North Carolina is one of the fastest growing cities in the south, but until recently, its downtown was largely deserted after 5pm. Now, local leaders are making bold strides to bring new life to the historic city center. At the center of this effort is Fayetteville Street, the once failed pedestrian [...]

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The 1784 plan of Pittsburgh, with Market Square clearly visible at the center

New Designs for the Ever-Evolving Heart of Pittsburgh: Market Square

By Craig Raphael on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

Market Square is a unique jewel situated at the center of the business and cultural districts in downtown Pittsburgh. The square has played a central role in Pittsburgh’s history, once housing the Alleghany County Courthouse and the “Diamond Market,”  the largest city market to which Pittsburgh residents came to shop, eat, and even roller skate on the top floor, [...]

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Relaxing on the new deck underneath the historic "Auction Oaks"

Austin Republic Square Becomes a Great Place through Partnerships

By Craig Raphael on Apr 27, 2010 | Add Comment

Republic Square in Austin, Texas has a long and storied history. The first city blocks were auctioned there under live oak trees in the summer of 1839; patriotic Mexican celebrations were staged during the First World War; cars were invited to park in the 1950s, only to be sent away twenty-seven years later when the [...]

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Welcome to the New PPS.org!

By Craig Raphael on Apr 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

Notice something different? PPS is thrilled to launch our new website.

Our goal in creating a new PPS.org was to provide an easier to use site and better showcase the services and extraordinary resources we have developed to help you in your work to transform your communities.

Our new site now offers major content organized [...]

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Vote on your Favorite Places in Chicago

By Robin Lester on Sep 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

What is the best public place in Chicago?  Sylvia O. thinks it is a community garden on Chicago’s far South-East Side, Brian S. nominated the Chicago Riverwalk for its “ingenuity and imagination,” and Afshan H. chose Harmony Park, the “go-to place in the Village of Arlington Heights.” The community, of course, is the expert.

The [...]

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Great Streets for San Francisco

By Craig Raphael on Jul 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

The San Francisco Great Streets Project kicked off last night with a riveting speech from Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia and champion of livable streets reforms. Peñalosa spoke to the benefits of reclaiming valuable street space for pedestrians and emphasized that the amount of space allocated to cars is [...]

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Building Quality Communities Around Transit in the Tappan Zee Bridge Corridor

By Craig Raphael on Jul 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

One of the most vital transportation links in the New York metropolitan region, the Tappan Zee Bridge is due for a major upgrade to satisfy growing travel demands. New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), New York State Thruway Authority and MTA Metro-North Railroad are [...]

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Improving Transit “By Any Means Necessary”

By joshkent on Jun 16, 2009 | 4 Comments

Malcolm X once said that “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” And so we found ourselves in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn at the first annual Bedford-Stuyvesant Malcolm X celebration, as guests of the Malcolm X Merchants Association (MXMA). We were there to educate ourselves [...]

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Chicagoland’s Best Places: Nominate Your Favorite!

By Craig Raphael on Jun 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Placemaking Chicago campaign is asking Chicagoans to nominate their favorites places.  PPS and Metropolitan Planning Council kicked off the campaign last fall with training courses for municipal and community leaders and publishing PPS’s first handbook for community-based placemaking.  The campaign is now seeking to broaden the conversation in Chicago about [...]

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Now is the ideal time to invest in public spaces

By Craig Raphael on Jun 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

In 2006, PPS was hired by the city of Tempe to create a comprehensive open space plan for their downtown, which has experienced rapid growth in recent years. The plan proposed improvements for more than 30 places that made up the fabric of the downtown experience in order to create a more lively, pedestrian friendly environment [...]

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City Launches Round Two of NYC Plaza Program

By Robin Lester on Apr 17, 2009 | Add Comment

The City of New York has announced the first nine recipient sites of its NYC Plaza Program, designed to ensure that every New Yorker is within a 10-minute walk of quality open space.   One recipient, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, worked with PPS in 2007 to evaluate four sites [...]

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