Highlights & News Archive

• 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.
• Happy Holidays! A Holiday message from all PPS Staff at the end of 2004.
• Purple Places Majesty A way forward for America beyond red and blue.
• Energize Your Local Economy with a Bustling Public Market David O'Neil teaches this course offered through the Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute on December 16-17, 2004
• Great Parks, Great Cities: London 2004 - Conference Proceedings Great Parks, Great Cities, the international forum for innovations in parks, took place in London on July 10-13, 2004.
• Remembering Laurance S. Rockefeller A remarkable conservationist and philanthropist, Mr. Rockefeller's support was crucial to the work of William H. Whyte and the origins of our organization.
• 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.
• Great Parks, Great Cities: London 2004 PPS's 9th international conference on urban parks.
• PPS interviewed on Smart City radio program PPS's Phil Myrick talks Placemaking on NPR with Smart City's Carol Coletta.
• Context Sensitive Solutions Website - Call for Submissions! You can be part of an innovative new website being built by the Federal Highway Administration and Project for Public Spaces!
• PPS.org Redesign PPS.org has a new look! Learn about the history of the PPS website, and how we got to where we are today.
• "How to Turn a Place Around" Training Course Attend PPS's two-day Placemaking workshop, experienced through the neighborhoods of New York City.
• "How to Turn a Place Around" Training Course Registration Sign up online for PPS's "How to Turn a Place Around" Training Course. We accept MasterCard, Visa, and checks.
• "How to Create Successful Markets" Training Course Find out more about PPS's two-day workshop, experienced through the markets of New York City.
• "How to Create Successful Markets" Training Course Registration Sign up online for PPS's "How to Create Successful Markets" Training Course. We accept MasterCard, Visa, and checks.
• 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.
• 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 how placemaking can help National Parks...
• The Road Ahead PPS and the Federal Highway Administration are ushering in a new era of transportation planning.
  Making Places Newsletter, January 2004
• SUVs: Stealing the Public Wealth
• Letting the River of Life Flow How PPS helps communities reclaim their streets...
• Upcoming RfP from Office of Community Services OCS will soon release an RfP for public market-related programs through the Community Service Block-Grant Discretionary Program. Register for email updates here.
• Another New York Story
• Our place in the world In praise of streets, parks, squares, coffeeshops, and other beloved hang-outs, Jay Walljasper writes in Ode Magazine...
• Re-Imagining Brooklyn's Inner Core
• Car Trouble?