Placemaking at Harvard Yard: Enhancing the Humanities with Human Activity
The memorable experiences of one's education often take place in the most comfortable and socially engaging places on a campus. Campus planning has sometimes been neglectful of allowing for and creating such places, instead focusing more narrowly on single-use facilities and isolated design statements.
- What: A pedestrian-oriented, academic oasis in the midst of the vast Siberian taiga. Why it Works: Despite the Siberian cold (and Soviet planners), Akademgorodok…
- The Placemaking Chicago campaign is asking Chicagoans to nominate their favorites places. PPS and Metropolitan Planning Council kicked off the campaign last fall with training…
- ‘What’s your street for?’ is the motto of Seattle’s new Streets for People Campaign. Modeled in many ways after the ‘Open source’ NYC Street Renaissance…
- PPS has begun work with the Texas-based Appleseed Project, seeking to reform how and where mixed use developments are built. Aiming to bring amenities to…
The Great Neighborhood Book Voted in the Top 10 Planning Books for 2007 by Planetizen
Planetizen has named PPS/Jay Walljasper’s The Great Neighborhood Book as one of its top 10 planing books of 2007. http://www.planetizen.com/books/2008 Also, Urban Land magazine recently…
- Jay Walljasper discusses the need for cities to have life on their streets – even in the most frigid days (and nights) of winter. “Plunging temperatures…
The Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medal Nomination Process is Now Open
The Rockefeller Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal on its website through February 1, 2008. The 2008 Rockefeller Foundation Jane…
- A movie theater, hotel and market all are part of the plan for the redevelopment of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center site at…
University of Hawai‘i and Hunt Development Group Agreement Advances UH West O‘ahu Campus Plans
HONOLULU — A signing ceremony for the sale of 298-acres at Kapolei between the University of Hawai‘i and Hunt Development Group was held earlier this…
- Registration is now open for our two-day public training courses here in NYC: How to Create Successful Markets, Oct. 12-13 and How to Turn a…
- Three urban planners from PPS visited Churchhill County and Fallon, NV, in an effort to inventory and assess local gathering places and destinations around town. …