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Market Tour Spotlight: Little Market with Big Taste
The Frutivale Public Market was recently redeveloped due to lapses made by developers and local government who originally decided not to include community input when planning the original design. The...
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PPS Workshop Inspires Bold Action in Blind River
A mural of Blind River from the downtown area Contributed by Mandy Johnson On May 14th, Cynthia Nikitin of PPS keynoted the Ontarians Walking Now workshop in Blind River, Ontario. Shortly after the...
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GREAT PUBLIC SPACES: Asafra Beach (Alexandria, Egypt)
What: Egyptians say “Alexandria is Asafra”: the beach that runs parallel to the city’s main street. Why it Works: Asafra is a long beach that is shaped in waves so that as you are walking, the road...
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GREAT PUBLIC SPACE: Ver-o-peso Market (Belem, Para, Brazil)
What: A permanent market on the Amazon River with over 2000 tents. Why it Works: The Ver-o-peso market is amazing market located on the Amazon River. It is on a very large-scale with more than 2000...
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The Magic is in the Mix: Creating Great Multi-Use Destinations
Planners, developers and city officials from Krakow to Kansas converged on Granville Island in Vancouver for Project for Public Spaces’ two-day Forum on Creating Great Public Multi-Use Destinations. As...
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Join PPS at the First International “Waterfront Synopsis” Conference
Join PPS on September 15-17, 2010 for “Waterfront Synopsis”, an international gathering around the topic of “Placemaking and Sustainability” on waterfronts hosted by Project for Public Spaces, Inc....
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7 Resources to Turn Your Waterfront Around
The fast shift away from single uses of waterfronts is finding communities still grappling with how to best plan and combine uses to maximize public benefits. Pirrama Park in Sydney Australia nicely...
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Turning Corpus Christi’s Waterfront Around
Corpus Christi is currently undertaking a unique, creative, and bold effort to build a world class waterfront in its downtown. Destination Bayfront, along with the City of Corpus Christi and hundreds...
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Using Public Process to Enliven Annapolis’ Waterfront
Another Placemaking campaign is underway, this time in Annapolis, MD, where the grassroots group Annapolis Sustainable Business Alliance (ASBA) is advocating for the city to rethink the future of its...
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Lessons from Waterfront Synopsis 2010: How Placemaking Can Build Sustainable...
The Nordic Urban Design Association (NUDA) has recently published a summary of the Waterfront Synopsis 2010 (WFS2010) Conference and Academy, co-hosted by NUDA and PPS, that took place September 15-17...
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The High Points of Placemaking: Around the World in 2010
As cities, even countries, move toward a place-based agenda for determining how they will develop in the future, PPS has discovered emerging trends that can improve how we create vibrant, livable...
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A New Planning Forum to “Free People’s Minds”
Buffalo Waterfront Flickr Image by Rho-bin Building a Vision for Buffalo’s Waterfront: “This is not your typical policy meeting. This is about inspiration” “If you can create a process that’s...
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The Power of Place: A New Dimension for Sustainable Development
By Phil Myrick, Senior Vice President It’s painfully obvious that development trends of the last 75 years are unsustainable. Performance indicators measuring climate conditions, public health,...
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Place-based Governance: Michigan Leads the Way
Placemaking is New, State-Wide Economic Development Strategy Downtown Traverse City, MI in early July during the National Cherry Festival. Image © Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau...
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Farmers Markets Take Off in Prague
New Markets Invigorate Prague’s Public Spaces New farmers markets bring life to green spaces in Prague. We’ve worked in a lot of markets all over the world but we’re really amazed by the enthusiasm of...
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How to Turn Dún Laoghaire Around
Abandoned public baths along the Dún Laoghaire waterfront / Photo: Gary Toth Places, like many things, go through cycles—and even the grandest of public spaces can wind up looking a bit worn and...
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Observing the South Street Seaport’s Soundscapes: Holly Whyte Revisited
A map of the area under observation. William “Holly” Whyte’s studies have helped us understand how people interact in public spaces. The studies, however, were performed during the 1970s, before there...
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Placemaking in Paris: How Politics Changed the Parisian Landscape
PPS has been learning from and advocating for better public spaces in Paris, a city that has quietly done more than any other in recent decades to increase livability. Around the time that Delanoë...
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All Around Ireland: Finding a Place to Sit in Ireland’s Public Spaces
PPS’s Communications and Outreach Manager Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman was fortunate recently to visit Ireland on a brief but informative tourist trip. Taking a moment out of the scheduled hustle, she...
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Attache Ta Tuque! Placemaking the Quebecois Way
Two night parades – taking place in opposite ends of the city on the second and third weekends – light up the night at Québec City’s Carnaval | Photo courtesy Carnaval de Québec Placemaking is a...
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What Makes a Great Street? Tell us Here!
Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain | Photo by Nicolas Grevet via Flickr Following the launch of Great Public Markets on our updated Great Public Spaces resource page, we are proud to announce the launch...
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Community Stands Strong against Proposed Highrises in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Standing before an audience of local residents, proponents, and other critics of the controversial Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 redevelopment plan, PPS president Fred Kent began to explain why the...
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Community Placemakers: Newell Nussbaumer and Buffalo Rising
Portions of Buffalo's waterfront are being revived Back in the summer of 2008, Rochester native Alan Oberst contributed an article to Buffalo Rising – a local news format blog — that analyzed both...
View ArticlePlaces in the News: April 28, 2009
The latest in urban planning, placemaking and citizen action: The Environmental Defense Fund’s Reinventing Transit highlights a new generation of innovative public transit. [EDF.org] In the greater...
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