- Digital Placemaking expands and enhances the work that PPS does face-to-face with community members and municipal officials to create great places and to plan for more livable, sustainable communities.
- Placemaking is in the news these days, and it's got us thinking that we are at an exciting moment in history.
Crowd-Sourcing the Lowdown on New York’s Privately Owned Public Spaces
Zuccotti Park is just one of dozens of privately owned public spaces around New York. Just how public are these places? How accessible and welcoming? How pleasant and well-maintained?
- Is your city’s best place on the list yet? This is your chance to get it on the map.
- PPS's Elena Madison reports that in her hometown of Sofia, people are ready to make a better city for themselves -- an authentically Bulgarian great place.
Mississauga Considers a Permanently Car-Free Celebration Square
The people of Mississauga like their new city square so much, they're talking about keeping cars out of it for good.
“The People’s Place:” How Placemaking Can Build Today’s Best Libraries
For all those who feared the rise of the Internet would mean the fall of the library here is a story of hope.
- The Kimchi of place: I think a placemaking revolution is afoot in Korea.
- The Square is the first step in creating a great destination that shows off the best of Mississauga and draws residents to enjoy their city center.
- This spring in Dayton, OH, PPS collaborated with local partners to host a forum with Albie Sachs to learn from South Africa's Constitutional Court, built in an architecture of place.
- PPS and GSA’s Public Building Service are longtime partners working to achieve great federal public spaces. On April 28, 2011 from 10am – 12pm, PPS and GSA…
Placemaking in Kosovo: “How to Turn a Place Around” Now in Albanian
Making this guide available to an Albanian audience builds on PPS work in the Eastern European region.