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Setting the Table, Making a Place: How Food Can Help Create a Multi-Use Destination

By Patra Jongjitirat on Aug 7, 2012 | 2 Comments

Food – we need it, we love it, and we structure our lives and cultures around it. San Antonio, Texas, is a city that is starting to structure its neighborhoods around it, starting with an ambitious redevelopment project called the Pearl Brewery. Located on 22 acres along the banks of the San Antonio River [...]

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Book Review: Helsinki Beyond Dreams

By Brendan Crain on Aug 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

If anything is often lost in translation about the concept of Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Placemaking strategies, it is the idea that they are meant to be part of long-term efforts to create dynamic public spaces. The real value of a parklet or a pop-up is in its ability to get people [...]

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Bicyclists fill a street during a Critical Mass ride in Vancouver / Photo: David Pritchard via Flickr

After 30 Years of Bike/Ped Advocacy, How Far Have We Come?

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 1, 2012 | 5 Comments

In 1980, the very first Pro Bike conference was convened in Asheville, North Carolina. At the time, the movement to carve out more space for bicycling on North American streets was young, and the first conference was attended by around 100 people. Thirty-two years later, the Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place is expected to [...]

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PPS President Fred Kent leads a Placemaking tour of Times Square during the April 2012 How to Turn a Place Around training. / Photo: PPS

Ready to Turn Your Place Around? Let’s Make it Happen!

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 31, 2012 | Add Comment

It’s almost that time of year again: every fall, we host Placemaking trainings at PPS HQ. These two- and three-day sessions are designed to help anyone working on creating great places learn how to authentically engage with community members and other constituents around the shaping of public space. The How to Turn a Place Around [...]

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Great Public Markets: A Crowdsourced Global Tour

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 25, 2012 | 1 Comment

Last week, we published a new feature article on Market Cities. The resulting discussion online produced a long list of Placemakers’ favorite public markets and market districts across five continents. We’ve rounded up photos from a selection of these favorites to create a colorful tour of a dozen bustling, beloved market districts around [...]

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Why We Need a Little More Chaos: An Interview With Andy Clarke

By Mina Keyes on Jul 24, 2012 | 2 Comments

 

League of American Bicyclists President Andy Clarke shared his thoughts and experiences with us at PPS on what bicycling means as a movement and how it has changed over the last 25 years. Andy, having been a part of the movement in the US since it involved just a handful of eager cyclists, [...]

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Fred Kent Featured on cdmCyclist Podcast

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 19, 2012 | Add Comment

PPS President Fred Kent is featured as the guest on today’s episode of the cdmCyclist, a podcast hosted by Frank Peters in southern California, where we’re looking forward to hosting the Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place conference this September 10-13. Fred not only talks about the important role that walking and bicycling play [...]

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You Are Where You Eat: Re-Focusing Communities Around Markets

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 18, 2012 | 12 Comments

Picture yourself at the supermarket, awash in fluorescent light. You’re trying to stock up for the next couple of weeks, since it’s a busy time of year. You grab some granola bars (and maybe even a box of pop tarts), some frozen dinners, a box of macaroni with one of those little packets of powdered [...]

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PPS Fellow Natalia Radywyl's place: a backyard tree, perfect for secluded book-reading.

Bric-a-Brac Placemaking With James Rojas

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 13, 2012 | Add Comment

Urban planner James Rojas stopped by the PPS office yesterday with a briefcase full of toys and trinkets for a demonstration Place It! workshop. James started off by charging the PPS staff to build models of our own ideal childhood places using popsicle sticks, plastic gold coins, beads, figurines, and other assorted bric-a-brac. After [...]

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The St. Kilda Adventure Playground just outside of Melbourne, Australia / Photo: Fernando de Sousa via Flickr

On Adventure Playgrounds & Mutli-Use Destinations

By Brendan Crain on Jul 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I don’t think I ever once used a “play structure.” I can still vividly remember the playground at my elementary school, with its castles, pirate ships, Amazonian treehouse cities, secret lairs, and rivers of lava. My friends and I never thought of the wooden [...]

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How Walking and Biking Add Value to Your Community and Change the System: An Interview with John Norquist

By Mina Keyes on Jul 10, 2012 | 6 Comments

Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place keynote speaker John Norquist, who currently serves as the President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, spoke with us recently about the role and responsibility of decision makers, what urbanists need to learn, and what CNU’s 2012 Transportation Summit—immediately preceding Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro [...]

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A Revolution in Placemaking

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

Since the Project for Public Spaces was founded in 1975,we have worked in thousands of communities around the world to help people shape their public spaces to create great Places, where locals feel a sense of ownership, and visitors don’t want to leave. Still, for as much fun as we’ve had, something feels different lately. [...]

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