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Brunswick’s Placemaking Master Plan

By joshkent on Oct 10, 2012 | Add Comment

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Earth-Day 1970 5th Ave. Closing

PPS in New York City

By Project for Public Spaces on May 3, 2012 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces’ Impact in New York City

The Project for Public Spaces was founded in New York City in 1975 to put into practice the findings of William “Holly” Whyte’s Street Life Project. Since then, PPS has consistently introduced and implemented new ideas and strategies all around its home town. While [...]

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Shade and water features offer a reprieve from the heat. Flickr photo via arellis49

San Antonio’s Main Plaza

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 4, 2011 | Add Comment
Completed in April 2008, the $12 million renovation created a multitude of new additions to Main Plaza. APA recently featured it in its list of Great Places in America: Public Spaces.
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Today there's new life in Houston Market Square

Houston Market Square

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
Houston, TX, US (2007) Client: Main Street Redevelopment Authority; Reinvestment Zone Number 3 (TIRZ 3)

Challenge

In 2007, Project for Public Spaces was called on to guide the future development of Market Square Park, an underused park in Houston’s Historic District. PPS began a community-driven process to gather information on the neighborhood and on the [...]

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A vision for the new Upper Kirby civic center

Upper Kirby Civic Center Complex

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 13, 2011 | Add Comment
The new Upper Kirby Civic Center Complex vision offers the opportunity for Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper interventions to activate this central space for the district.
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Market at Kennedy Plaza. Photo by Jef Nikerson via Flickr.

Rethinking Greater Kennedy Plaza

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 13, 2011 | Add Comment
(2008-present) PPS was hired by a Greater Kennedy Plaza Working Group, a collection of committed civic leaders, to help transform Kennedy Plaza into a lively square that serves the community and drives the culture, creativity and identity of the city.
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opening day view of hte center

Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center

By Megan MacIver on Jul 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
Houston, TX (2007-2008). In collaboration with Concordia, LLC, an architecture and planning firm, PPS developed a program for the public spaces and conceptual design based on the involvement and ideas of local residents and stakeholders.
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Proposed lay out of Birmingham Market

Birmingham Public Markets Study

By Megan MacIver on Jun 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
To address limited food access and rising public health concerns in Birmingham, PPS proposed the implementation of Healthy Food Hubs.
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A view of the Rotary Hall and outdoor market area.

NewBo City Market Feasibility Study

By Megan MacIver on Nov 19, 2010 | Add Comment
In 2008, after the city of Cedar Rapids was hit with a massive flood that devastated ten square miles of the city’s downtown, a group of con­cerned citizens retained PPS to help create a new public market to bring life back to the city’s core and become a regional destination.
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The site of the Slussen Urban Redesign Competition is an opportunity to reinvent Stockholm's center, for better or worse.

Is Stockholm in Danger of Losing Its Waterfront?

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 24, 2010 | 7 Comments

It’s not easy to make a great urban waterfront and many cities have made numerous mistakes that they regret later. For example, adjacent land uses that are private versus public, the size and location of  roads limits pedestrian access to the water,  the design of the open spaces along the waterfront  provides few opportunities for [...]

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PPS staff explain the place improvement exercise to community members in Brooklyn.

Developing Public Participation Tools in Transit Dependent Communities

By Craig Raphael on Jul 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA (2008-2010) Client: Federal Transit Administration

Engaging minority, non-English speaking, and low-income communities in transportation planning represents an enormous challenge for planners, designers, government agencies, and municipal officials alike. Low-income constituencies are more dependent on walking, biking, and using transit than other population sub-groups, yet they do not often get [...]

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Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority Training

By Craig Raphael on May 20, 2010 | Add Comment
Singapore (2008-2009) Client: Urban Redevelopment Authority

PPS conducted a training program for staff of the Urban Redevelopment Authority to help them create a vision and long term development strategy for the downtown core. The training focused on Placemaking techniques using Marina Bay, Singapore River, Civic District, and BrasBasah Bugis in the city centre as evaluation sites. Marina Bay, the [...]

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