Create Successful Public Spaces
PPS Resources and Services
Project for Public Spaces offers a full spectrum of products and services to help any community create great places!

Tools & Resources

Place Diagrams
Tools for initiating discussions about place-making

Principles for Creating Community Places
Excerpted from our new book

Publications & Videos
A broadening selection of products relevant to professionals and citizens alike

Slides/Images
Over 500,000 slides of public spaces and elements from all over the world.

Great Public Spaces, Great Community Places

Sources of inspiration with explanations as to why they were a success


Urban
Parks Online
A resource center filled with information on everything from funding to design issues

Articles
List of articles about PPS unique approach to planning and design.

Education & Training

Community Workshops
Let us get something started in your community

Place Performance Evaluation
A participatory tool for initiating the place-making process

Context Sensitive Design Training
5 Session training course will be offered again this fall to 300 transportation professionals

Public Markets as Economic Development
Annual course being administered by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Training
Institute

How to Create a Sense of Place in Neighborhoods
Being offered for the second time by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Training
Institute

Planning, Design & Implementation


User Analysis and Programming

Understand how a space is used & develop new uses

Community Envisioning
A Process for getting input and ideas

Conceptual Designs Plans and sketches of what a space could be 

Design Review
Critique of a proposed plan before you build in mistakes

Master Planning/Urban Design Plans
How to improve an entire district

Management Programs
How to maintain and activate a space on an ongoing basis

Amenity and Art Selection  
Pick special features that enhance your space

Design Management Take your plans from idea to construction


Join us in our mission to preserve public space as the nexus of community life.


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