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achieving great spaces

Achieving Great Federal Public Spaces: A Property Manager’s Guide

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2007 | Add Comment
Nationwide (2005 - 2007). Achieving Great Federal Public Spaces is an invaluable book for property managers, developers, and anyone else who wants to evaluate and improve their lobbies, atriums, plazas, courtyards, and other public spaces.
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Creating and Managing Successful Destinations Forum

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2007 | Add Comment
New York, NY (2007). In June 2007, PPS and three of its board members convened with public space developers and managers at the first-ever public space management forum.
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Integrating Transportation and Land Use Planning in New Jersey

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2007 | Add Comment
New Jersey (2005 - 2007). In recent years, the New Jersey Department of Transportation has made great strides in better understanding the role that their transportation investments play in community livability, placemaking and smart growth. However, NJDOT's efforts to create more livable communities that depend less on automobile traffic can only succeed with the cooperation and leadership of New Jersey's municipalities.
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New Hampshire Long Range Transportation Plan

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2006 | Add Comment
New Hampshire (2005 - 2006). Faced with rapid land-use development throughout the state and the prospect that this trend will continue through the next 25 years, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation set out to learn how this growth will impact the state's transportation system, and what can be done to manage it.
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San Mateo Peninsula Corridor Plan

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2004 | Add Comment
San Mateo County, CA (2001-2004). PPS is working in seven cities along El Camino Real to create a series of local Main Streets instead of a road that drivers speed through.
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Portland Public Market

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2004 | Add Comment
Portland, OR (2004). To increase the success of their mixed-use development in Portland's Old Town neighborhood the Portland Development Commission is conducting a feasibility study for a new public market. The Commission hired Project for Public Spaces (PPS), Bay Area Economics, and GBD Architects to conduct the study.
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Building Leadership with Local Youth

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2004 | Add Comment
Rijeka Croatia (2003 - 2004). In 2003, PPS was invited to Rijeka, Croatia under the auspices of the Urban Institute to help launch a new initiative called [MU:V], "Mali Uce Velike" ("Kids teach grown-ups").
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South San Francisco, CA

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2004 | Add Comment
San Mateo County, CA (2001 - 2004). The Peninsula Corridor Planning effort built upon the city's recently revised general plan.
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San Carlos

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2004 | Add Comment
San Mateo County, CA (2001 - 2004). The San Carlos project illustrates how Placemaking strategies can help pull together many positive, but somewhat unconnected projects being carried out by the city, transportation agency merchants, and private developers.
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Daly City

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2004 | Add Comment
Daly City, San Mateo County, California (2001-2004). PPS worked with the City, Caltrans, MUNI, BART, and Samtrans/Caltrain to improve the transit waiting environments at key stops in the Top of the Hill area in Daly City.
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Belmont

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2004 | Add Comment
San Mateo County, CA (2001 - 2004). PPS worked directly with the Places and Urban Design Visioning Committee to outline a series of strategies.
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Gyumri Public Square

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2003 | Add Comment
Gyumri, Armenia (2003). In July 2003, a grant from the Academy for Educational Development (AED) brought PPS to Gyumri to facilitate the first effort since the 1998 earthquake to recapture some of the civic life that had characterized this cultural center.
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