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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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Placemaking in Regina, Saskatchewan

By Craig Raphael on May 25, 2009 | Add Comment
Regina, Saskatchewan, CA (2009) Client: Regina Department of Highways and Transportation, Regina Department of Planning and Sustainability In November 2009, Project for Public Spaces provided a collaborative training for Regina, Saskatchewan’s Department of Highways and Transportation and Department of Planning and Sustainability. Local officials engaged PPS after identifying the need for greater coordination between land [...]
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Placemaking and the Power of 10 in South Korea

By Craig Raphael on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
South Korea, 2009. South Korea is making bold strides in creating spaces for people and not just for cars in its largest metropolitan cities.
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Placemaking on the Hong Kong Waterfront

By Craig Raphael on May 20, 2008 | Add Comment
Clients: Gammon Construction, City of Hong Kong, Designing Hong Kong
2005-2008

Hong Kong’s central waterfront is undergoing a massive redesign, an exciting process that has produced a rich mix of new developments, all with a variety of planned uses and activites. Structured according to essenital principles including respect for the natural context and existing urban fabric, diversity, vibrancy and green [...]

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Montenegro Planning Program

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2008 | Add Comment
Montenegro (2006-2008). With the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, PPS conducted training programs and implemented pilot projects to extend the successes of Placemaking achieved in Serbia, Croatia, and Central Europe in general to Montenegro.
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United Arab Emirates: Utilizing Waterfronts as Inclusive Public Spaces

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2008 | Add Comment
UAE (2007-2008). PPS is currently working on a comprehensive development project in a major United Arab Emirates city to develop public space design and program recommendation
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Canadian Library Training Courses: Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, British Columbia

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2008 | Add Comment
Canada (2006-2008). PPS facilitated Placemaking training seminars for Canadian librarians that introduced participants to a unique, place-based approach to the planning and design of cities and towns and their public spaces.
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Pedra Branca Market

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2008 | Add Comment
Palhoca, Brazil (2008). PPS created a vision for a central market square with the developers of Pedra Branca, Brazil’s groundbreaking ‘new urbanism’ town development in the State of Santa Catarina.
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Granville Island

By Craig Raphael on Apr 16, 2007 | Add Comment
Vancouver, British Columbia (2007)

In 2007, PPS worked with a diverse group of Granville Island stakeholders and the Hotson Baker Boniface Haden Architects + Urbanistes (HBBH) to create a community-based vision and management plan to invigorate the island’s public spaces.   Through PPS’ community workshops, the district’s community came together to re-imagine the public spaces around [...]

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Making Nova Scotia Places

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2006 | Add Comment
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, CAN (2006). In September 2006, a team from PPS facilitated a three-day training course in Nova Scotia to a broad range of librarians, and town planners from around the province, municipal and provincial staff, and local retailers.
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Placemaking in Scotland

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2006 | Add Comment
Scotland (2004-2005). PPS established a partnership with Greenspace Scotland to introduce the concept of Placemaking to both the public and private sectors throughout Scotland, implement several Placemaking projects, and develop a group of Placemaking Associates trained to work throughout the country on a major Placemaking initiative.
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Ninotsminda Central Market

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2005 | Add Comment
Ninotsminda, Republic of Georgia (2005). With financial support from the United States Agency in International Development (US AID), the Urban Institute hired Project for Public Spaces (PPS) to help community members in Ninotsminda, Georgia, re-design the town's central bazaar.
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