- Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper is a lower-risk and lower-cost local development strategy.
- How cities in Texas are turning planning upside-down.
- PPS is recognized for our success in helping communities enhance their unique sense of place, promote active, healthy lifestyles, foster contact between diverse populations, and work towards environmental sustainability.
Place Capital: The Shared Wealth that Drives Thriving Communities
Investments in Place Capital grow the shared wealth fundamental to sustainable communities. The public places we most value, both in our communities and around the world, have this wealth and further attract its preservation and expansion.
- Public Squares enhance urban livability and provide new anchors to downtown development.
- Public Art magazine sat down with Cynthia Nikitin to discuss the organization’s philosophy behind creating successful public spaces. Translated from the Korean.
- Civic spaces are an extension of the community. When they work well, they serve as a stage for our public lives.
- No need to retreat indoors--great public spaces draw people 12 months a year.
- New economic trends make a sense-of-place more important than ever
- Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz on what's needed to truly revitalize our cities.
- Once a symbol of urban hopelessness, this feisty town is not willing to give up on its public spaces or itself
- "So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem... The best way to handle the problem of undesirables is to make the place attractive to everyone else." --William H. Whyte