Where is PPS Working Today?

By Craig Raphael on Jul 16, 2010 | 2 Comments

Every year, PPS travels all over the world in our mission to help communities improve their public spaces. In the last few weeks alone, we have been in Norway, Abu Dhabi, Hawaii, Vancouver, Alabama, Italy and Texas, among other places.

Interested in connecting with a PPS staff member in your city or town? Here’s a list of where a handful of our staff will be travelling in the coming weeks.

Fred Kent + Kathy Madden

Corpus Christi, TX: August 27-29

Waterfronts Synopsis Conference–Stavanger, Norway: September 15-17

Ethan Kent

Las Vegas, NV: July 20-22

Baltimore, MD: August 2-6

Aurash Khawarzad

ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) Conference–Vancouver, Canada: August 8-11

Cynthia Nikitin

Pretoria and South Africa in general: July 25 to 31

Baltimore, MD: August 2-4

Moscow: August 6-20

Portland Oregon: Week of September 13

Edmonton Alberta, Alberta Museum Association conference: September 25

Gary Toth

Hunterdon County Rural Transit Awards Breakfast–Clinton, NJ: July 29th

CDC PHHS Block Grant Coordinators’ Summit–San Francisco, CA: August 16-18

Hollyalonso

Whom can I contact about the principles of Placemaking in the Berkeley/Oakland area? I am the director at a six acre historic site in the midst of a diverse low income community in Oakland California. We are toiling singelhandedly in a bankrupt but wonderful city, discovering by ourselves many of the ideas I am reading about on your website, and making them real and concrete and involving community members of a dazzling array of races, ethnicities and cultures. We are creating a new model for many types of institution, among them “the museum.” Where museums are chasing relevance, we have it 24/7 because we are so involved with the community surrounding the site. We have a lot to offer others, and a lot to learn in this roller coaster. Please contact me to come and see this site and brainstorm and help us to to understand the field of placemaking.
ppsnyc

Thanks for reaching out, Holly! One of our VPs, Ethan Kent, will be in contact with you shortly, and we look forward to learning more about your project!