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The Power of Food Trucks to Calm a “Turf War”
Entire families came by bike to the food truck festival. Usually empty, this lawn in Grey Park was transformed into a great community destination. “If you want to seed a place with activity, put out...
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Mississauga Considers a Permanently Car-Free Celebration Square
A variety of Canada Day activities brought the crowds out to Mississauga's brand-new Celebration Square this summer. Photo: ammiiirrrr via Flickr Back in June, we told you about the triumphant opening...
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Placemaking Takes Off in Sofia, Bulgaria
My home country of Bulgaria has been through enormous social, political, and economic changes in the last 20 years. The end of communism, the rise of a democratic society, membership in the European...
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A Soccer Field Brings Hope to a Kenyan Slum
We talk a lot here at PPS about the power of place in improving people’s lives. Here’s a story that illuminates that power beautifully. The children of Kibera make soccer balls from waste. Photo:...
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Your Picks for the Top 100 Public Spaces in the U.S. and Canada
Ask yourself, what are the Top 100 Public Spaces in the U.S. and Canada? A couple of obvious choices might come to mind — New York’s Central Park, say, or Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, or Stanley...
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People Are Talking About Placemaking…
Placemaking is in the news these days, and it’s got us thinking that we are at an exciting moment in history. In just the last couple of months, we’ve seen the benefits of a place-based approach get a...
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Remember the Edges!
One of the key principles to remember when trying to create a great public square is that the inner square and outer square must work together. Active edges (sidewalk cafes, museums, shops) feed into...
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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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A Revolution in Placemaking
Since the Project for Public Spaces was founded in 1975,we have worked in thousands of communities around the world to help people shape their public spaces to create great Places, where locals feel a...
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On Adventure Playgrounds & Multi-Use Destinations
The St. Kilda Adventure Playground just outside of Melbourne, Australia / Photo: Fernando de Sousa via Flickr I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I don’t think I ever once used a “play...
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You Are Where You Eat: Re-Focusing Communities Around Markets
The breathtaking central hall of Cleveland’s West Side Market/ Photo: PBS NewsHour via Flickr Picture yourself at the supermarket, awash in fluorescent light. You’re trying to stock up for the next...
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Setting the Table, Making a Place: How Food Can Help Create a Multi-Use...
The Pearl Brewrey's Farmers' Market has helped to make the site a food destination / Photo: John W. Schulze via Flickr Food – we need it, we love it, and we structure our lives and cultures around it....
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Your City is a Cultural Center: A Review of the ‘Spacing Out’ Forum
“Place matters, and the first place is your body. We are whole people. We bring that whole-ness to our communities.” –Maria Bauman, leading a “Physio-Expresso” exercise / Photo: @keith5chweitzer via...
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What Makes a Great Public Destination? Is it Possible to Build One Where You...
How do you create a magnetic public destination like Luxembourg Gardens? Read on! / Photo: PPS In a recent blog post, entrepreneur-turned-VC Mark Suster wrote about the necessary ingredients for a city...
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Better Block, Better City: An Interview With Andrew Howard
Andrew Howard Andrew Howard is one of the founding members of Team Better Block, a group that works to implement Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper strategies for the temporary revitalization of streets and...
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Book Review: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Click to purchase from Powell’s Jeff Speck’s new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, is worth a read for its acerbic wit, alone. The author fits a remarkable...
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Announcing the Placemaking Leadership Council
The first meeting of the Placemaking Leadership Council will take place in downtown Detroit, Michigan, home of the wonderful Campus Martius Park / Photo: PPS For those of us who are passionate about...
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How to Really Look at Your City: An Interview With Connie Spellman
Connie Spellman PPS Transportation Associate David M. Nelson is our resident expert on all things Omaha. When he heard that we were interviewing Omaha By Design director Connie Spellman for the...
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Announcing The Future of Places Conference Series
On June 24-26th, 2013, Placemaking leaders from around the world will gather together with UN officials, representatives from international government agencies, NGOs, designers, change agents, mayors,...
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Want to Create Family-Friendly Places? Get the Kids at the Table!
Children play on the Museum of Art and History’s rooftop sculpture garden during a Placemaking workshop / Photo: Greg Larson In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake changed the face of downtown Santa Cruz,...
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