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A Focus on Place for Downtown Baltimore’s New Master Plan
A new master plan for the future of Baltimore’s downtown was just released that focuses on creating a network of open spaces throughout the city’s core. The plan showcases the role that BIDs and Master Plans can have in supporting Placemaking...
Transforming an Empty Building into a Year-Round Hub for Local Food
A Participatory Process Guides Plans for Creating a Community Destination in Downtown Boston Plans are underway to transform the first floor of an empty building in downtown Boston into a hub for local food. From the start, the process has...
Public Space Powered Democracy
With no place to voice our views as citizens, do we become more passive about what happens to our country and our future? By Jay Walljasper The influence of the new digital commons in democratic uprisings from Tunisia to Egypt to Bahrain has been...
What is Walkability? How Do You Measure It?
We’ve long said that one simple idea can transform the way we think about transportation planning: streets should not simply be for moving cars, but should also be places for people. Recently some of PPS’ Transportation team attended the 90th annual...
The Fight for More Public Space
In Jackson Heights, a NYC neighborhood with one of the highest densities of children per acre of green space in the city, the local community has come together to fight for a new park. To overcome well-intentioned, but lengthy, review processes that...
How Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Interventions Can Catalyze City-Wide Renewal, One Place at a Time
Join us in our NYC office on February 8 at 6PM for an evening with Marcus Westbury. RSVP now! Lessons from Newcastle, Australia: An Interview with Marcus Westbury Marcus...
A New Guide to Public Space Planning in Europe
For those looking to learn more about current developments in the planning of urban public space, the new book Human Cities is an excellent guide to a different approach towards designing cities. Rather than focusing on a “definition of...
A Placemaking Testimonial From Côte Saint-Luc, Montreal
This past November, the city of Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec invited PPS President and founder Fred Kent and Senior Director of Downtowns and Main Streets Norman Mintz to spend two days observing and guiding elected officials and community leaders through...
Placemaking Catches On in Korea
As the practice of creating and fostering livable destinations and communities grows on a global scale, one trend in particular is clear: Koreans are steadily embracing the Placemaking movement. A street becomes a marketplace in Seoul. During a...
Community-Generated Alternatives to the $3.6B Columbia River Crossing Project in Portland, OR
The Columbia River Crossing (CRC), one of the largest public works projects in the history of the Portland/Vancouver region, is turning to local citizens and stakeholders to generate alternatives to the current version of the $3.6 Billion project...
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 of interested citizens, have launched a...
Placemaking Energizes the Campaign for Buffalo’s Waterfront Development
Buffalo’s Canal Side Community Alliance (CSCA), a coalition of community groups campaigning for the future of their city’s waterfront, recently called on Fred Kent and PPS Board Member Tony Goldman of The Goldman Properties Company to...
