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Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Aug 3, 2007 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces Vice President, Ethan Kent, writes about Melbourne’s successful new public space development, Federation Square, and a Placemaking training course that he helped lead, which included many city staff, local developers and “place managers.”

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PPS Takes Public Spaces Inventory of Fallon, Nevada

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 17, 2007 | Add Comment

Three urban planners from PPS visited Churchhill County and Fallon, NV, in an effort to inventory and assess local gathering places and destinations around town. 

Phil Myrick, vice president of PPS, and Elena Madison, assistant vice president, presented a list of sites they felt could be better utilized in Fallon. The team, [...]

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U.S. Cities Building More Parks and Public Spaces

By joshkent on Jun 29, 2007 | Add Comment

As cities are building new parks at a rate not seen for 100 years, the debate about what uses and activities to put in them is growing.

Phil Myrick, a PPS Vice President, comments on how PPS helped create a program of uses for a new park in Houston that will generate buzz in [...]

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Occidental Square Making a Comeback

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 26, 2007 | Add Comment

Seattle’s Occidental Square is making a comeback!

The square had long been an empty, dreary, underused space.  But recent renovations have brought new pavings, bocce ball courts, and a series of special events that are bringing people back to Occidental Square.

Read more about PPS’s involvement in the turnaround.

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Free the Bench! Mock Trial over Bench in Surrey, BC

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2007 | Add Comment

Local politicians – lawyers among them – will be staging a mock trial Saturday on whether to set free a wooden bench near the Surrey Central SkyTrain and bus loop in Surrey, British Columbia.

The idea for the bench trial came about after public spaces guru Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces, toured [...]

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PPS Market Grantee: Where Cultures Meet, Amid Coconuts and Cousa Squash

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 13, 2007 | Add Comment

There are 4,400 farmers markets in the United States, more than three times the number in 1994, with an estimated sales volume of $1 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture. But not one is quite like Crossroads in Takoma Park, funded in part by a grant awarded by Project for Public Spaces [...]

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Career Opportunities Available at Project for Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces is seeking to fill three positions: Executive Assistant; Associate, Marketing and Development; and Associate, Website and Database Manager.

Click here for the full job descriptions and information on how to apply.

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Greensboro’s New Center City Park is Open!

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2007 | Add Comment

The City of Greensboro held a ribbon cutting ceremony on December 1, 2006, to celebrate the opening of the new Center City Park, and the park has already been widely accepted by the community, and host to several large events and festivals.

Read more on how PPS worked with the City and community members [...]

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Community Board to Vote on Vision for Hell’s Kitchen

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 6, 2007 | Add Comment

In order to foster ideas on how to reclaim 9th Avenue from Lincoln Tunnel traffic, the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition (CHEKPEDS) sponsored a six month community input process designed by Project for Public Spaces.

Community Board 4 will hold a vote tonight on adopting report findings as “the official community vision.” If [...]

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Traffic Devices Cut Car Speeds in Ramsey, NJ

By ksalay@pps.org on May 22, 2007 | Add Comment

Speeding is down at an intersection in Ramsey, NJ, where temporary traffic calming devices were installed at the end of last month.

Modifications to the corner were just one of the changes suggested by Project for Public Spaces during a study of the streets around a train station that opened in 2004.

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People and Activity Bring Vitality to Communities

By joshkent on May 22, 2007 | Add Comment

Fred Kent believes that you can have the most attractively built community in the world, but if people don’t come together to mix in public spaces, it’s just dead space.

His theory is that attractive, non-automobile dominated public spaces layered with multi-use functions will pump vitality back into communities that have become too isolated.

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Main Street at Work: Shaping Neighborhood Commercial Centers around Places

By ksalay@pps.org on May 16, 2007 | Add Comment

On Tuesday, May 22nd, Cynthia Nikitin, Vice President with Project for Public Spaces (PPS) in New York City, will speak in Cleveland Heights, OH on the topic “Main Street at Work: Shaping Neighborhood Commercial Centers around Places.” The event will be held at Forest Hill Church, 3031 Monticello Blvd. (corner of Lee Blvd.) at [...]

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