Back Issues Catch up with the most exciting developments in placemaking, including these timeless articles from our archive:

The Return of the Civic Square
From San Francisco to Vienna, squares are rebounding to become centers of civic life once more. (December 2002)

Paris: The Best Public Spaces Keep Getting Better
It seems like Paris breaks new ground every year in its efforts to draw people to its public spaces. (August 2002)

Finding Profit in Preservation
How Czech Greenways turned history, culture, and place into invaluable assets. (June 2002)

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Also in this issue:

Great Parks/Great Cities Awards See which parks have been honored as North America's best.

Parks Leaders Gather for International Conference PPS and the Central Park Conservancy welcomed over 500 leaders in urban parks to New York City.

News from PPS Journal highlights parks as community places; Catching up with San Carlos.

Press Clips PPS laid the groundwork for Campus Martius, a new park that should bring an active street life back to downtown Detroit. (Article from the Detroit Free Press.)

No Kissing Please: London's New Public Spaces Editorial by Harriet Festing.

Greening Center City Philadelphia's Center City District knows that active parks, streets, and public spaces are the surest way to attract businesses and residents. (Article from the Center City Digest.)

Monthly Snapshots Placemaking in the UK has made enormous strides in recent months, as PPS discovered during our second training course in London.

Public Voices On the pitfalls of public art: "Public art initiatives are now an integral part of the UK regeneration industry and as such, produce the ordinary and the irritating rather than the exceptional..."