PPS Welcomes 2017 Senior Fellow, Jane Ellery
2017 Senior Fellow, Jane Ellery As Assistant Professor of Wellness Management at Ball State University, Jane Ellery’s passion for person-centered, place-led community change steered her toward the...
View ArticleSound Places: Chamber Musicians Take to the Streets
Back in October, PPS provided you with a preview of how chamber music and placemaking are coming together in the unprecedented Sound Places program. Since then, program partners Chamber Music America...
View Article8 Reasons Place Should Matter to Humanitarians
Contributed by Samer Saliba, Urban Technical Specialist at the International Rescue Committee Our recent and ongoing research with PPS Fellow Rony Jalkh on placemaking and peacemaking has helped us to...
View ArticleApply to Host the 2018 10th International Public Markets Conference
Participants of the 2015 International Public Markets Conference enjoy an interactive tour of Barcelona’s exceptional markets. Project for Public Spaces is seeking Letters of Interest from those who...
View ArticlePlacemaking for Peacemaking
Contributed by PPS Senior Fellow, Rony Jalkh Afghan Refugees in Iran, 2013 | Image Credit EU/ECHO Pierre Prakash Placemaking & Peacemaking: A Two-Way Approach for Promoting Inclusion and...
View ArticleOpen Letter: This is What Democracy Looks Like
Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection. – Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark...
View ArticleLast Call for Applications! EDRA’s 2017 Great Places Awards
In case you missed it, the deadline for the 19th Annual Great Places Awards has been extended to February 14th, 2017. With now just less than a week left to apply, we encourage you to spend the...
View ArticleThis Must be the Place: Learning by Doing in Mexico City
Neighbors enjoying LEA in Foro Lindbergh, Parque México | Photo by Lugares Públicos “It turns out, what this place needed was a place.” – Guillermo Bernal, Lugares Públicos When Guillermo Bernal and...
View ArticleBeers with Engineers: Round 2
Beers with Engineers is an informal forum in which planners, design professionals, and the interested public talk to transportation engineers about how to work together to improve our streets and...
View ArticleThe Placemaking Factor in Philanthropy and Funding
The following is based on excerpts from Maria Adebowale Schwarte’s new book, The Place Making Factor: A Catalyst for Disrupting Environment and Social Grant Making. The successful development of...
View ArticlePlacemaking Week 2017 Heads to Europe: Save the date for Amsterdam in October!
Building upon the momentum of last year’s successful event in Vancouver, Project for Public Spaces, in partnership with STIPO, City at Eye Level, Placemaking Plus and Pakhuis de Zwijger, are thrilled...
View ArticleTaking Learning Outside the Classroom: Placemaking at Curtin University in...
Guest post submitted by Tara Gloster, Place Activation Coordinator, Curtin University Curtin partnered with local independent, non-profit cultural organisation FORM to bring an international “who’s...
View ArticleMaking an Impact in Melbourne: The Queen Vic Market is Turning a New Leaf
It’s finally that time of year when the weather starts to seem a little less grim – Spring is in the air, and people are starting to gear up for a fresh outlook on the year, which includes aspirations...
View ArticleAnnouncing PPS’s 2017 “Healthy Places” Live Webinar Series
PPS is excited to announce the 2017 “Healthy Places” Webinar Series, which will be based on the findings and topic areas highlighted in our recent report, “The Case for Healthy Places: Improving Health...
View ArticleCall for Proposals Now Open for Placemaking Week in Amsterdam
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead PPS—along with our partners Pakhuis de Zwijger,...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Museum of Art & History Turns Abbott Square into Creative Public...
“Yes, art is placemaking. But art is also future making. Art rejects the limitations of what we are and what we have been. It inspires us to imagine what we will be.” –Nina Simon, Executive Director,...
View ArticleInnovation Spaces: The New Design of Work
By Julie Wagner and Dan Watch, new research from the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Initiative on Innovation and Placemaking shows how workplace design stimulates the creativity and competitiveness of...
View ArticleImplementing the New Urban Agenda through Placemaking: Nairobi “Making Cities...
Great progress has been made in raising awareness of the importance of public spaces and placemaking, and then getting that importance reflected in the New Urban Agenda. Now we turn to how placemaking...
View ArticleExploring Placemaking in Amsterdam
As PPS prepares for Placemaking Week 2017 in Amsterdam, we’re more inspired each day by this city’s unique mix of history and cultural innovation, and with the seemingly countless number of...
View ArticleHarnessing Indigenous Andean Placemaking –“The Minga”– for the New Urban Agenda
Project for Public Spaces worked with the Municipality of Quito on shaping their public space and placemaking agenda in advance of their hosting the largest UN conference ever, Habitat 3. By Jaime...
View ArticleA Global Response to Placemaking Week 2017’s Call for Proposals
We are thrilled to have received over 350 responses to our Placemaking Week 2017 Call for Proposals! With submissions from 65 countries—from Argentina to Egypt—we are looking forward to having a truly...
View Article2017 “Cultivating Place in Main Street Communities” Trainings Kick Off in...
Laramie, WY Main Street | Image by Matt Ashby, Ayres Associates This week, Project for Public Spaces (PPS) and the National Main Street Center, Inc. (NMSC) kick off the 2017 “Cultivating Place in Main...
View ArticlePlacemaking When Black Lives Matter
This article was first published in Progressive City. Reproduced with permission. By Annette Koh (@citykoh) What would placemaking look like when Black lives matter? Washington D.C.’s director of...
View ArticleNew Orleans Embraces Green Infrastructure: Walk/Bike/Places 2018 Update
Walk/Bike/Places 2018 Conference Update: For the next few months we will be busy developing conference themes in preparation for our Call for Proposals which is set for December 13, 2017. Vital to that...
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