• How PPS Can Help Your Park

    Using our unique Placemaking approach, PPS offers technical assistance and a range of support services to communities building new parks or revitalizing existing ones. Technical…
  • Our Mission for Parks

    Parks have been a core focus of PPS beginning with our work with William H. (Holly) Whyte and our signature early projects like the Bryant…
  • Parks Homepage

    Parks succeed when people come first Today, PPS is working with more communities than ever before to transform underperforming parks into great public destinations that…
  • Our Approach to Parks

    Successful public spaces are lively places where the many functions of community life take place, and where people feel ownership and connectedness — true common…
  • Featured Park Projects

    PPS has extensive experience in creating and improving parks that are active, vital, and enjoyable places for people. In developing conceptual plans, PPS considers…
  • Planning Services

    The Placemaking process helps leaders to identify stakeholders and partners, broaden community involvement and leverage local assets. It identifies uses and activities for the park…
  • Parks Projects

    PPS has extensive experience in creating and improving parks that are active, vital, and enjoyable places for people. In developing conceptual plans, PPS considers how…
  • The Urban Parks Institute

    PPS established the Urban Parks Institute in 1996 with funding from the Wallace Reader’s Digest Funds in order to provide a wide range of resources…
  • Great Parks/Great Cities Awards

    Celebrating the best of America’s urban parks From the green to the groovy, the quintessential to the quirky, Project for Public Spaces (PPS) are honoring…
  • A Riverfront Runs Through It

    An examination of the ground-breaking partnership that has the nonprofit Riverfront Recapture assuming responsibility for riverfront parks in the cities of Hartford and East Hartford, Connecticut. Parks and Recreation magazine