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2017 - The Year of the Place
All of us at PPS are thrilled at the recent attention devoted to Placemaking in the national media, from cover stories in Time and the Atlantic Monthly, to Hollywood gossip in the Tattler Online and how-to coverage in Better Homes and 'Hoods. We're happy to share these with you in this special issue of our newsletter, which celebrates 2017 as The Year of the Place.
Read this week's Time cover story »
Also in this Issue:
Hollywood Stars Don't Walk Their Talk
TATTLER ONLINE EXCLUSIVE! Leonardo, Keira, Orlando and Scarlett let the public down on important Placemaking promises.
Make Your Community Come Alive in 3 Easy Steps
What fun is it to cook the perfect meal, tend the perfect garden, decorate the perfect living room, raise the perfect children or knit the perfect sweater without some neighborly companionship?
More Issues of Faking Places:
April 1, 2006
HR 2376, known as the Unhurried Senators and Representatives Enjoying Potlucks and Socializing Together Act of 2006 (USA REPAST), passed with near unanimous support in the House of Representatives.
April 1, 2005
Fearful of losing their long dominance of the streets, millions of autos staged massive park-ins in public spaces around the nation to protest pedestrians and alternative modes of transportation.
April 1, 2004
Under the influence of PPS, Wal-Mart abandoned mega-stores in favor of locally-owned, downtown shops.
