- Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper is a lower-risk and lower-cost local development strategy.
Placemaking as a New Environmentalism: Reinvigorating the Environmental Movement in the 21st Century
What kind of places do we want to create? What kind of communities do we want to live in?
- Public Squares enhance urban livability and provide new anchors to downtown development.
- Detroit's new public square, Campus Martius, brings life back downtown.
- New projects in Detroit and Houston show great places bring great economic returns
- Civic spaces are an extension of the community. When they work well, they serve as a stage for our public lives.
- PPS' approach to plazas & civic squares
- In cities and towns around the world, people are crying out for lively gathering places where civic life flourishes and different cultures mix. Public squares…
- Using our unique Placemaking approach, PPS offers technical assistance and a range of support services to communities building new squares and plazas or revitalizing existing…
Public Space, Public Transport Gel in Portland’s Pioneer Square
How a synergistic relationship between a public space and public transit system benefits everyone.
- Frederick Douglass Circle, a dangerous traffic intersection at the northwest corner of Central Park, has been an eyesore since the 1940′s. In 1993, residents from…
Entrepreneurial Programming Brings Economic Gains to Swedish Park
Skillful management and a desirable location make Stockholm's Kungsträdgården both economically self-sufficient and popular with tourists and locals.