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‘Triangulation’ for Chicago’s Polish Triangle

By Robin Lester on Apr 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council, our partner in Placemaking Chicago, a city-wide Placemaking campaign, continues to make strides in applying Placemaking in Chicago.

Their latest project is the transformation of the intersection of Division Street, Ashland Avenue, and Milwaukee Avenue, at a crossroads also known as the Polish Triangle.  MPC has gathered insight [...]

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A new vision for Savannah’s streets and squares

By Craig Raphael on Apr 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Savannah is known for the beauty of its tree-canopied streets, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Clearly, its citizens agree. A recent survey that invited people to name the city’s best and worst streets drew four times as many responses for “worst” as for “best.”

The survey was conducted on [...]

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Prioritizing Stimulus Funding: If It Is Broke, Let’s ‘Fix it First’

By Robin Lester on Mar 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

Gary Toth, Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives at PPS, has recently authored a new article for Smart Growth America and T4 America titled, “Why Fast Track ‘Fix it First’ Projects are a Better Stimulus.”

Gary has been reviewing State DOT spending proposals for Stimulus funding and has found many proposals [...]

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Great Places, Great Cities 09: Glasgow, Scotland

By jchao on Mar 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

As more people digest the importance of sustainable living, conversations have mainly revolved around how to transform office buildings and homes, transportation habits and the choices that individuals make on the everyday basis. But, what about public space? Great Places, Great Cities 2009, a two-day conference, turns the question of sustainability towards public spaces [...]

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PPS Announces New Canadian Partnership

By Craig Raphael on Mar 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

PPS is pleased to announce its new partnership with the Ontario-based Municipal Cultural Planning Partnership. This network is made up of provincial ministries, Ontario municipalities and a host of other organizations representing the cultural, business, planning and academic sectors. As the first non-Ontario member to date, PPS was invited to join [...]

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‘Streets For People’ Campaign Kicks off in Seattle

By Brian Geraghty on Mar 5, 2009 | 5 Comments

‘What’s your street for?’ is the motto of Seattle’s new Streets for People Campaign.  Modeled in many ways after the ‘Open source’ NYC Street Renaissance Campaign that PPS helped to found, Streets for People’s approach to advocacy is to connect, convene and inspire a new conversation about how streets can best [...]

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New Gansevoort Plaza gets mixed reviews, but remains victorious

By Brian Geraghty on Feb 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

A partnership between PPS, Transit Alternatives and Streetsblog formed in 2005 called the NYC Streets Renaissance fueled a number of projects aimed at reclaiming street space for pedestrians. One project was the redevelopment of Gansevoort plaza in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Last month, NYC’s DOT hosted a meeting for community [...]

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Seeking the Most Romantic Public Spaces!

By Robin Lester on Feb 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

Chances are, you’ve played out some part of your romantic life on the stage that is public space.  Meeting, courting, kissing, dancing, dining — love happens where people are free to enjoy the company of others!

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, PPS is partnering with Romantic Ribbons to collect entries on the most romantic public spaces [...]

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Fred Kent of PPS to Speak in Savannah on City’s Development Ideas

By Brian Geraghty on Jan 27, 2009 | Add Comment

Savannah is a city known for its downtown historic district, highlighted by 22 public squares constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the interest of bringing public spaces back to the forefront of its profile, the city has acted on the need to restore the beauty that once was. One of the city’s “lost” [...]

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Route 17

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Bergen County, NJ (2004-present). PPS is leading a community planning effort to mitigating congestion by re-considering adjacent land use instead of widening the Route 17.
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About Placemaking in New York

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
The whole world knows New York for its livable neighborhoods, excellent parks, first-rate cultural attractions, and seemingly inexhaustible supply of new places to explore. However, New York’s attractions are increasingly disconnected from each other. Large sections of the city’s pedestrian environment are now overwhelmed by traffic and sterile, anti-urban developments conceived by vanity designers.

Thankfully, [...]

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The Role of Public Art in the Suburbs

By Robin Lester on Dec 23, 2008 | Add Comment

In her article entitled “From Cow Town to Our Town,” published in the December issue of The Public Art Review, Cynthia Nikitin, PPS’s Vice President and Director of the Civic Centers Program, describes the conflicts, challenges, and potential for public art to contribute to creating a sense of place in suburban communities.

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