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POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Placemaking Gets ASLA Approval

New York, NY (December 5, 2001)- Project for Public Spaces (PPS), America's leading public-spaces nonprofit, was recognized twice this month by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), a professional organization with 13,500 members. Not only has PPS' training course, "How to Turn a Place Around." been accredited for Continuing Professional Development by the ASLA, but it is also featured in Land Online, the ASLA's digital newsletter. In her article, author Susan Hines noted the course's "... fascinating subject matter, witty teachers, interesting guest speakers, field trips, and cool people to hang with... (they) have distilled some basic truths about creating successful places".

"Power to the People" Part One, appears here: http://www.asla.org/members/land/pps.html
Part Two:
http://www.asla.org/members/land/pps2.html

Information on future ‘How to Turn a Place Around' training courses can be found on PPS' website, here: http://www.pps.org/nyc_training.htm

PPS books, including "Public Parks, Private Partners" and "How to Turn a Place Around," can be ordered online here: http://www.pps.org/Products/products_publications.html

Project for Public Spaces provides resources, techniques and tools to help people build great public spaces. A nonprofit, PPS has helped over 1,000 neighborhoods in 46 states and 12 countries improve their parks, markets, streets, transit stations, libraries and countless other public spaces. PPS run training & education programs, sell publications and manage two websites: www.pps.org / www.urbanparks.pps.org.

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