Project for Public Spaces
Work With Us
Free Newsletter
Stay Connected
  • Home
  • About
  • Services
  • Training
  • Projects
  • Placemaking Blog
  • Resources
Campus Martius_pexp-banner

Supporting Placemaking Leadership in Michigan

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 21, 2012 | 1 Comment

Michigan communities are leading the way in demonstrating the potential impact of Placemaking projects and in evolving Placemaking as a broad leadership, governance and development focus. The state government is now taking Placemaking to an unprecedented level as the center of their economic development and place-based governance strategy.

Michigan has given PPS some of [...]

Continue Reading
multi-use

PPS’s Approach to Multi-Use

By Project for Public Spaces on Oct 13, 2009 | Add Comment
PPS works with developers and communities to create these kinds of neighborhoods, where a broad array of new types of activities and destinations located in close proximity to each other result in the same dynamic conditions that attracted people to older cities and neighborhoods.
Continue Reading
Rock_ctr_channel_gardens

10 Benefits of Creating Good Public Spaces

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
Brief case studies of cities where public spaces have had demonstrable positive impacts.
Continue Reading
granville_aerial_large

Granville Island: One of the World’s Great Places

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 2, 2009 | 3 Comments
In the heart of Vancouver, this lively mix of arts, parks, and markets leads off our new hall of fame for great neighborhoods and districts.
Continue Reading
Thrive-Even1_large

How Your Community Can Thrive — Even in Tough Times

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 2, 2009 | 5 Comments
New economic trends make a sense-of-place more important than ever
Continue Reading

Placemaking for Smart Growth

By Megan MacIver on Jun 22, 2011 | Add Comment
PPS is recognized for our success in helping communities enhance their unique sense of place, promote active, healthy lifestyles, foster contact between diverse populations, and work towards environmental sustainability.
Continue Reading
kensington_market_toronto_ek_2004_11

Placemaking as a New Environmentalism: Reinvigorating the Environmental Movement in the 21st Century

By Ethan Kent on Apr 21, 2011 | Add Comment
What kind of places do we want to create? What kind of communities do we want to live in?
Continue Reading
volunteer_kids_large

What If We Built Our Cities Around Places?

By Project for Public Spaces on Nov 1, 2004 | 1 Comment
PPS' Great Cities Initiative proposes a place-based approach to revitalizing our towns, cities, and regions.
Continue Reading

Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Transform Your Public Spaces Now

By Project for Public Spaces on May 22, 2012 | Add Comment
A low-cost, high-impact incremental framework for improving your community in short order

“Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” (LQC) describes a local development strategy that has produced some of the world’s most successful public spaces — one that is lower risk and lower cost, capitalizing on the creative energy of the community to efficiently generate new uses [...]

Continue Reading
What if sustainable development was shaped around comfortable places for people?

The Power of Place: A New Dimension for Sustainable Development

By pmyrick@pps.org on Apr 21, 2011 | Add Comment
Placemaking offers a valuable tool communities can use to get back in control of their future and their environment.
Continue Reading
BIG-beautiful-Market-in-Pittsburgh-smaller-150x150

The Re-Emergence of the Public Square

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
Public Squares enhance urban livability and provide new anchors to downtown development.
Continue Reading
Job magnet: Compuware located 4000 employees in downtown Detroit because of Campus Martius

Putting Our Jobs Back in Place

By dkitzes on Mar 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
The missing ingredient in most discussions about jobs is the fact that secure jobs are tied to a place.
Continue Reading
12Next »
    • Reference
    • Store
    • Great Public Spaces
    • Image Collection
  • Filter Reference Articles By Type

    • Campuses
    • Civic Centers
    • Downtowns
    • Public Markets
    • Multi-Use
    • Parks
    • Placemakers Guides
    • Placemaker Profiles
    • Placemaking 101
    • Squares
    • Transportation
    • Urban Parks Institute
    • Waterfronts
  • Filter Reference Articles By Agenda

    • Architecture of Place
    • Building Community Through Transportation
    • Creating Public Multi-use Destinations
    • Public Markets & Local Economies