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PPS’s Approach to Sqaures

By Project for Public Spaces on Oct 13, 2009 | Add Comment
In cities and towns around the world, people are crying out for lively gathering places where civic life flourishes and different cultures mix.
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10 Principles for Successful Squares

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 1, 2005 | Add Comment
Small details add up to great places.
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North America’s Top 12 Public Squares

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 1, 2005 | Add Comment
Shining examples that prove great public squares are not an alien idea.
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15 Squares Most in Need of Improvement

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 1, 2005 | Add Comment
Squares that could be transformed from embarrassments to great community places.
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How PPS Can Help Your Square or Plaza

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment

Using our unique Placemaking approach, PPS offers technical assistance and a range of support services to communities building new squares and plazas or revitalizing existing ones.

Technical Assistance We begin by achieving a clear understanding of how people use existing or new public spaces through a variety of methods, including detailed user analysis, targeted interviews, [...]
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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.
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Launching a New Tradition of Great Public Squares

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 1, 2005 | Add Comment
With historical roots in cultures all over the world, squares are being rediscovered as a powerful means of transforming communities.
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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 [...]

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PPS’s Squares and Plazas Program

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment

In cities and towns around the world, people are crying out for lively gathering places where civic life flourishes and different cultures mix. Public squares are as vital to cities as economic development because they are where the people who live and work in a community experience their neighborhoods and each other. The benefits go [...]

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What is a Great Civic Space?

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 3, 2009 | Add Comment
Civic spaces are an extension of the community. When they work well, they serve as a stage for our public lives.
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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?
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Magic in the Motor City

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2010 | Add Comment
Detroit's new public square, Campus Martius, brings life back downtown.
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