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 Planning,
Design & Implementation Services
All
PPS projects are planned and directed
by an interdisciplinary staff that uses
techniques such as time-lapse filming,
systematic observations, and specially
designed surveys to analyze how people
use all kinds of public spaces and to
ascertain their perceptions and ideas.
These techniques have been applied by
PPS to develop design and management recommendations
that often include small scale, easily
implemented demonstration improvements
that quickly enhance the social and economic
vitality of public spaces, while providing
an opportunity to test them in action.
PPS
both retrofits public spaces and plans
new spaces, with special emphasis on:
A 1981 PPS rendering. Part of a master
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- User
Analysis and Programming
- Community
Envisioning and Consensus Building
- Conceptual
Designs and Guidelines
- Design
Review and Program Evaluations
- Master
Planning/Urban Design Plans/Site
Planning
- Management
Programs
- Amenity
and Art Selection
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Public
Space Analysis
PPS
conducts a wide variety of on-site studies,
employing our own user-based analytical
methodology to understand and document
patterns of use and their impacts in all
types of public spaces, and to evaluate
the needs, perceptions and preferences
of users or potential users. This involves
the utilization of systematic observations,
structured interviews, surveys tailored
to various user groups, such as residents,
merchants and shoppers, and time-lapse
and documentary photography. These activities
can be grouped in different configurations
and in different blocks of time, depending
on community goals and needs and the types
of public spaces being evaluated. Using
this approach, PPS is able to identify
an area's problems and potential
and has become uniquely skilled at translating
the findings into specific programs and
recommendations for improvements that
truly meet people's needs.
Design
Management and Project Supervision
PPS
is offering a new service
in Design Management and Project Supervision.
The reason that we are taking this
step is to insure that the conceptual
plans and schematic designs that we develop
are carried forth in a way that leads
to the creation of successful spaces,
once they are turned over to project designers.
Our
design management and project supervision
managers will stay with the project through
the critical phases of approval and financing,
and then implementation.
PPS will make sure that the
intentions to create a great public
space are not eliminated in the many months
between conceptual design and ribbon cutting.
Contact
us at pps@pps.org
or call us at (212) 620-5660
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