Articles & Issue Papers

• 30 Years of Placemaking Trace PPS's development with this timeline of our first 30 years.
• PPS's Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Read about our most influential accomplishments since our founding in 1975.
• What If We Built Our Cities Around Places? PPS announces its new Great Cities Initiative, which applies the principles of Placemaking to entire cities.
• The 20 Best Neighborhoods in North America Here are our picks. Now it's your turn to select the best spots to live, work, and hang out.
• The Power of Ten Why Great Places are more than the sum of their parts.
• Purple Places Majesty A way forward for America beyond red and blue.
• An Open Letter to the New York Times Project for Public Spaces responds to Herbert Muschamp's departure from his post as the New York Times architecture critic.
• London City Commentary Congestion charging was a major step in the right direction. Now see how London can take its quest for better public spaces even further.
• Barcelona City Commentary You know the names--Parc Guell, Las Ramblas--now see what PPS has to say about these and other places that make up the gem of Catalonia.
• City Commentary: Paris
• Shedding Light on Markets We should invest more in public markets. Here's why. Download the full report to the Ford Foundation: "Public Markets as a Vehicle for Social Integration and Upward Mobility." (PDF file)
• Placemaking in National Parks Learn more on placemaking in National Parks and how to get involved.
• SUVs: Stealing the Public Wealth
• Letting the River of Life Flow How PPS helps communities reclaim their streets...
• What If We Built Our Cities Around Places? PPS's Great Cities Initiative proposes a place-based approach to revitalizing our towns, cities, and regions.

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