Project for Public Spaces
Work With Us
Free Newsletter
Stay Connected
  • Home
  • About
  • Services
  • Training
  • Projects
  • Placemaking Blog
  • Resources
The Yorkville Ramblas plan for 2nd Avenue, created by Massengale and Dover's firms for the By the City / For the City design competition / Photo: Dover Kohl & Partners

Creating Great Streets: What Does it Take? An Interview With John Massengale & Victor Dover

By Mina Keyes on Jul 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

We recently chatted with experts John Massengale and Victor Dover about their soon-to-be-released book Street Design, which details the art and practice of creating great streets for people. In researching this book, John and Victor traveled across the world evaluating and experiencing different kinds of streets.  John is an architect, urbanist, owner of Massengale [...]

Continue Reading
Meet Edgar!

Citizen Placemaker: Ed Klugman Advocates for Inter-Generational Places

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 29, 2012 | 1 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.

Recently, we spoke with Ed Klugman, an advocate for inter-generational [...]

Continue Reading
featured img

PPS to Lead National Endowment for the Arts’ Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 28, 2012 | 1 Comment

Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of our participation in the Orton Family Foundation’s new CommunityMatters Partnership, we are thrilled to share with you the first projects that PPS will be taking on as part of that initiative. Beginning July 1, 2012, PPS will be partnering with CommunityMatters, the National [...]

Continue Reading
Charlie Gandy and Bikeable Communites Executive Director Josh Frank enjoy Berlin Bistro's new parklet. / Photo: Allan Crawford

Gazelles & the Art of Placemaking

By Charlie Gandy on Jun 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

What happens when local small businesses bring a healthy dose of creative talent and out-of-the-box thinking to their entrepreneurial mix? What happens when they see themselves as progressive artisans and thought leaders and feel empowered to spread their enthusiasm with fellow local business owners? Business zones in cities and towns that were once depressed and/or [...]

Continue Reading
We're proud to be part of the new CommunityMatters partnership.

Announcing the CommunityMatters Partnership

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Orton Family Foundation, over the last few years, has masterfully coalesced several national organizations all working on key pieces of what a shift in civic infrastructure needs to look like for stronger community-based planning. After some great convenings hosted by the Orton Foundation and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, we are proud to help launch Continue Reading

Kate Kraft

Bridging the Gap Between Transportation & Community Health

By Mina Keyes on Jun 19, 2012 | Add Comment

While serving as Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kate Kraft contributed to setting up the successful New Jersey FIT: Future In Transportation program at the New Jersey Department of Transportation.  She currently works as a Community Health and Wellness Consultant and  serves on the board of the Continue Reading

Great places like Vancouver's Granville Island come from focusing on people and place, not design. / Photo: PPS

7 Ways to Disrupt Your Public Space

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 14, 2012 | 8 Comments

Last week, Fast Company posted a list, adapted from the book Smart Customers, Stupid Companies, of 7 Ways to Disrupt Your Industry. Reading through the list, we were struck by how applicable the recommendations that the authors put forth are to our own principles for good Placemaking. But it makes sense, when you think [...]

Continue Reading
Brooklyn's Court Street is often bustling with pedestrian activity. / Photo: PPS

Six Big Questions From the Walking and the Life of the City Symposium

By Natalia Radywyl on Jun 12, 2012 | 9 Comments
“Walking: It’s What You Do Once You’ve Parked Your Car…”

Or so lamented Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt, in his keynote address at last week’s Walking and the Life of the City Symposium, organized by the NYU Wagner School’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Vanderbilt set the morning’s theme by charting [...]

Continue Reading
Photo: Ethan Kent

How “Small Change” Leads to Big Change: Social Capital and Healthy Places

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 6, 2012 | 7 Comments

According to Dr. Richard Jackson, a pioneering public health advocate and former CDC official now serving as the Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA, the idea that buildings, streets, and public spaces play a key role in the serious public health issues that we face in the US “has undergone a profound sea change [...]

Continue Reading
Nina Simon of the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz

Citizen Placemaker: Nina Simon on Museums as Community Hubs

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 1, 2012 | 2 Comments

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.

This time around, we chatted Nina Simon (@ninaksimon) who, [...]

Continue Reading
Peaches & Greens

The Cure for Planning Fatigue is Action

By Project for Public Spaces on May 30, 2012 | 3 Comments

Detroit has become a media darling in recent years, as the story of its rapid de-industrialization and population loss has given way to a new narrative: one of entrepreneurial arts groups, neighborhood farmers markets, and corporate investment downtown by the likes of Quicken Loans and Compuware, catalyzed in part by the new public square at [...]

Continue Reading
Photo created at Cheezburger.com

Welcome to the New & Improved PPS.org!

By Project for Public Spaces on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment

After months of hard work behind the scenes, we’re excited to unveil our new website today! As frequent visitors will have probably already noticed, we’ve freshened up the look of the site. Here on the Placemaking Blog, we’ve got a lot more breathing room for big, colorful images, as well as a Related Posts section [...]

Continue Reading
1« Previous...567891011121314...Next »121
  • Filter Blog Posts By Type

    • Campuses
    • Civic Centers
    • Downtowns
    • Events
    • Great Public Spaces
    • Historic Preservation
    • Markets
    • Multi-Use
    • Parks
    • Placemaker Profiles
    • Places in the News
    • PPS Video
    • Project Updates
    • Squares
    • Training
    • Transportation
    • Waterfronts
  • Filter Blog Posts By Agenda

    • Architecture of Place
    • Building Communities through Transportation
    • Creating Public Multi-use Destinations
    • Public Markets and Local Economies
  • Recent Comments

  • Tags

    Articles About PPS bicycling biking Bookstore Links Brooklyn Buildings collaboration cynthia nikitin Detroit DOT downtown Farmers Market Profiles Fred Kent gary toth GPS Links Image DB Links International Lighter Quicker Cheaper london Long Beach Manhattan New York City New York City Streets Renaissance paris PDF Links pedestrians placemaking Placemaking Leadership Council Press Releases Pro Walk/Pro Bike Public Art public markets Public Spaces san francisco silo busting smart growth Squares streets as places Training Transit Transportation UN-HABITAT urban planning walkability walking