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Downtown Houston Park Could Be A Great Place

By keenan on Mar 17, 2008 | Add Comment



(photo courtesy of R. Clayton McKee)

Kids playing around “Mist Tree,” a donated fountain at the new Discovery Green park.

The preview opening of Discovery Green, a 12-acre park across from the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, [...]

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PPS In Providence: City told to think and dream big in reinventing plaza

By jpastore@pps.org on Feb 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

As part of a project Providence, RI, PPS lead a workshop of over 130 city officials, business owners, residents and representatives of nonprofit groups about potential improvements to the city’s central plaza, Kennedy Plaza.

“All over the world, people are coming back to these great squares. Once you’ve got a great square, the [...]

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StreetStars: Christine Berthet and the Ninth Avenue Renaissance

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 29, 2008 | Add Comment

The StreetStars series focuses on the heroes and organizers in our communities who are fighting constructively for livable streets.

Christine Berthet, co-founder of Chekpeds (the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition), worked with TA and PPS, and was instrumental in organizing the Ninth Avenue Renaissance.

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Kaiser Permanente’s Preston Maring, MD, Featured on ABC News Discussing Farmers’ Markets

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 28, 2007 | Add Comment

Kaiser Permanente’s own Preston Maring, MD, shared his Thanksgiving menu – developed using organic, locally sourced produce – on a live ABC News broadcast Wednesday morning.

Dr. Maring, who founded Kaiser Permanente’s farmers’ markets program in 2003, talked about why good food is such a key ingredient in the recipe for healthy living. Dr. Maring [...]

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‘Place-making’ Forum Focuses on Local Flavor

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 29, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS Vice President Ethan Kent was one of the presenters at the Sustainable Tourism Development Forum held in Pawtucket, RI on Thursday, October 25, 2007.

The Providence Journal

By Philip Marcelo

PAWTUCKET— Policymakers, city planners and tourism officials from Rhode Island and neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts gathered downtown yesterday for a [...]

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PPS Grantee, the Farmers Markets Federation of New York, Receives $125,000 Grant to Promote EBT (food stamps) at Upstate Farmers Markets

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 23, 2007 | Add Comment

The Farmers Market Federation of New York, a 2006 PPS grantee, received a $125,000 grant from the Humpty Dumpty Institute to encourage Electronic Benefit Transfer (food stamp) recipients in upstate New York to use their benefits at their local farmers markets. The pilot program hopes to expand the use of EBT cards at 43 [...]

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USA Today lists City Seed’s Wooster Square Farmers Market, a 2007 PPS market grantee, as one of the Top Ten Markets for Cultivating Organic Growers

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 23, 2007 | Add Comment

When USA Today asked Alice Waters, co-owner of the famed restaurant Chez Panisse, to compile a list of some of the country’s best farmers markets she made sure to include PPS grantee City Seed, located in New Haven, CT.

One of only two East Coast markets cited, the City Seed Wooster [...]

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Author Jay Walljasper discusses The Great Neighborhood Book

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 23, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS Senior Fellow Jay Walljasper discusses The Great Neighborhood Book at the The Micro Revolution: Neighbors Making a Difference event held in Chicago on September 20, 2007.

Neighbors Making a Difference

By Jay Walljasper

“My hope that day was to showcase inspiring examples of how everyday citizens made tremendous improvements in the [...]

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PPS to Hold New Transportation Training Seminar in New York City, November 29-30

By bfried@pps.org on Oct 16, 2007 | Add Comment

Come to “Streets as Places”, PPS’s new training seminar, and learn how Placemaking can build great streets and great communities.

The course will introduce participants to new ways of thinking about streets as public spaces. It is intended for anyone who is interested in creating a great street, including transportation professionals who want to [...]

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PPS Training Courses Open for Registration!

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Registration is now open for our two-day public training courses here in NYC:  How to Create Successful Markets, Oct. 12-13 and How to Turn a Place Around, Oct. 18-19

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PPS Speaks at Aspen Ideas Festival

By jpastore@pps.org on Aug 14, 2007 | Add Comment

This July, PPS president Fred Kent and senior vice president Kathy Madden attended the 3rd annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. This 6-day festival brought together some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. The presentation-, networking-, and discussion-based setting was designed to share and advance these great ideas [...]

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Great Places Symposium Advances Placemaking Movement

By joshkent on Aug 7, 2007 | 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, a group of dedicated placemakers gathered at a landmark event in Seattle, the Great Places Symposium, laying the groundwork for an even larger regional movement around the idea of place. PPS has been collaborating with the leaders of this new network, called the Great Places Forum, since its inception, [...]

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