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The first meeting of the Placemaking Leadership Council will take place in downtown Detroit, Michigan, home of the wonderful Campus Martius Park / Photo: PPS

Announcing the Placemaking Leadership Council

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 13, 2013 | 26 Comments

For those of us who are passionate about the public spaces in our communities, this is an extraordinary time. The general awareness of the importance of a strong sense of place—to the economy, to our social fabric, to human health—is growing stronger every day. Placemaking is, at this moment, being transformed from a useful tool [...]

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Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design Issues RFP for Rural Communities Facing Design Challenges

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 10, 2013 | 1 Comment

Partnership of federal agencies and national organizations offers workshop funding, technical assistance, and additional resources

Washington, DC—Today, the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) is issuing a request for proposals to rural communities facing design challenges to host local workshops in 2013.

Successful applicants will receive a $7,000 grant and in-kind design expertise and [...]

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How to Jump-Start a Walking School Bus: An Interview With Ian Thomas

By Mina Keyes on Jan 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

If you’re working to make it easier for children to walk and bike to school in your community, Ian Thomas is a name that you should know! Ian is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Pedestrian and Pedaling Network of Columbia, Missouri (PedNet). As he prepares to step down from this position [...]

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Streets as Places Webinar Recording Now Available Online

By David M Nelson on Jan 7, 2013 | Add Comment

Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) and the Placemaking movement make great bedfellows. That’s what PPS believes, and apparently over 800 practitioners and policymakers agree.

Eight hundred was the number of individuals who registered for the booked-solid Streets as Places webinars presented a few weeks ago by Gary Toth, Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives, and [...]

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Here's an interesting puzzle for you to ponder... / Photo: PPS

Best of the Blog: Top 12 PPS Posts of 2012

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

2012 was a big year in general here at PPS—and the same was true for the Placemaking Blog! We’ve had a blast communicating with Placemakers around the world through our blog, as well as through Facebook and Twitter. And so, to end the year on a reflective note, we thought we’d put [...]

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Small Town Rebound: Making a “Great Place” in New Jersey

By Patra Jongjitirat on Dec 18, 2012 | 3 Comments

PPS heartily congratulates the Borough of Madison, New Jersey, whose downtown was recently named one of the 2012 Great Places in New Jersey by the state chapter of the American Planning Association. It is an affirmation of the Borough’s unwavering dedication over the past 30 years and demonstrates the power of a community to [...]

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Looking Back on 2012…and On to 2013, the Year of the Zealous Nut!

By Fred Kent on Dec 16, 2012 | 3 Comments

Dear Placemakers;

Almost four decades ago, we created the Project for Public Spaces to expand the work of the great urbanologist and observer of public spaces, Holly Whyte. The way that public spaces were being conceived and designed then was disconnected from the reality of how people used them, yet there was surprisingly little [...]

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Book Review: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

By Brendan Crain on Dec 13, 2012 | 4 Comments

Jeff Speck’s new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, is worth a read for its acerbic wit, alone. The author fits a remarkable collection of data and anecdotal evidence from his long career in urban design (which included a four-year stint at the helm of the National [...]

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After the Storm, Re-Imagining the City

By Natalia Radywyl on Dec 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

Last week I finally returned to my Brooklyn home, some 5 weeks after being displaced by Hurricane Sandy. I live a block away from the Gowanus Canal, a dedicated ‘Superfund’ site slated for clean-up following years of industrial pollution and, as it turned out, a waterway ill-equipped for storm surges and 21st century superstorms. [...]

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Alamo Plaza bustles thanks to a temporary market during Team Better Block's last San Antonio project / Photo: Better Block

Better Block, Better City: An Interview With Andrew Howard

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 5, 2012 | Add Comment

Andrew Howard is one of the founding members of Team Better Block, a group that works to implement Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper strategies for the temporary revitalization of streets and public spaces in the short-term, to inspire people to think differently about how those places could evolve. Team Better Block recently took recommendations straight from [...]

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Detroiters crowd the Placemaking Hut to vote for their favorite ideas for improving downtown spaces / Photo: PPS

Pop-Up Placemaking: Connecting the Dots in Detroit

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 4, 2012 | 3 Comments

What do you want to see happening in your favorite public spaces? This is one of the questions at the core of the Placemaking process, and getting responses from as many different people as possible has always been central to what we do at the Project for Public Spaces. But now, as our work in [...]

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Citizen Placemaker: Sarah Ordover on Building Local Culture Around Food

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 3, 2012 | Add Comment

In our Citizen Placemaker series, we chat with amazing and inspiring people from outside the architecture, planning, and government worlds (the more traditional haunts of Placemakers) whose work exemplifies how creating great places goes far beyond the physical spaces that make up our cities.

Sarah Ordover is the founder of the NewBo City [...]

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