Articles About PPS

• Pride of Place (from Governing Magazine) Fred Kent has spent three decades developing a common-sense approach to streets, buildings and human sociability. Governing Magazine, in April 2005, chose to get a better perspective on Placemaking.
• Too Many One-Way Streets in Downtown Rochester? Democrat and Chronicle One-way streets were created to provide fast routes for commuters as they drive to work in the morning and scoot out of the city at night, according to PPS's Cynthia Nikitin. (February 15)
  
• Excitement Builds Around Detroit Detroit Free Press PPS’s work on the new Campus Martius in Downtown Detroit is recognized as an architectural highlight of 2004. December 20, 2004.
• Plan Would Make Seattle's Freeway Park More People Friendly PPS visited Seattle to help the community develop a vision for how to revitalize the park.
  Fred Kent’s interview with the Seattle Post Intelligencer. December 15, 2004.
• Ideas Offered to Attract Visitors to Bayfront Park Miami Herald During a public workshop conducted by PPS, planners and activists began formulating plans for a new waterfront park in downtown Miami. December 2, 2004
• PPS Visits Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage Daily News The City, looking for ways to make people aware of a Midtown Park that is hidden behind big-box stores, chain-link fences and office buildings, invited Fred Kent and Kathy Madden to run a workshop with community members to develop a vision for the park. November 27, 2004.
• Campus Martius Draws High Hopes Detroit News PPS helped create a vision for the new downtown square that is seen as the key to Detroit’s revival. (November 18)
• Path leads to appreciation of walkway Kansas City Star, August 31, 2004.
• KC's Destiny Should Be Destinations Kansas City Star, August 17, 2004.
• Ramsey residents get say on NJ Transit station Bergen Record, August 8, 2004.
• Return of the 'King' San Francisco Examiner, July 16, 2004. Cynthia Nikitin explains how the transformation of El Camino Real begins
• Radical ideas mulled for Occidental Park Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 16, 2004.
• Ideas for remaking John Ball Zoo are tossed at consultant The Grand Rapids Press, June 4, 2004.
• Public's ideas for Pioneer Square on board's mind The Oregonian, April 27, 2004.
• Changes afoot at Pioneer Square Portland Tribune, Apr 30, 2004.
• Re-Imagining Cincinnati's Downtown Parks Fred Kent spoke to an audience of 200 civic leaders about the possibilities to improve Cincinnati's Fountain Square and Washington Park.
• The future: foreign fields that could hold the answer Fred Kent discusses misconceived urban renewal schemes that have wounded cities in Scotland’s Herald.
• Smart Growth Is Great, When Done Smartly Fred Kent discusses why the success of transit-oriented development depends above all on creating great places.
• Downtown Promotion Reporter Jan 2004 Kathy Madden gives some planning tips to create vibrant, economically healthy downtowns
• Pull Up a Chair How site furnishings transform a space into a place
• Great Public Spaces – Instructive Lessons From Here & Abroad An interview with Fred Kent in January 2004 The Planning Report
• Land Matters Great Public Spaces gets featured in December's Landscape Architecture Magazine.
• Gem in the Circle On October 10th, 2003, a 7-acre park located in the heart of Cleveland's University Circle revealed improvements proposed by PPS.
• Think You Own the Sidewalk? An article on the vagaries of walking in New York City, in which PPS President Fred Kent points out that an auto-centered environment puts pedestrians at a distinct disadvantage.
• Park Opens Door into City's Future PPS laid the groundwork for Campus Martius, a new park that should bring an active street life back to downtown Detroit.
• Shared Wisdom: Preaching the Gospel of Place Fred Kent of the Project for Public Spaces urges landscape architects to create "people places."
• Power to the People: The Placemaking Process In her review of a PPS' "How to Turn a Place Around" workshop, critic Susan Hines explains how the public can become an effective member of a design team. LAND Online/American Society of Landscape Architects
• Power to the People: The Project for Public Spaces Specializes in Place Making Part Two of Susan Hines' article on PPS' workshop.
• PPS's New Book is a Winner By John Williams, National Center for Bicycling and Walking Forum
• Restoring Urban Parks: New life in old spaces By Terra Hargett, American City and County
• Designer Invigorates Transit Center Plan Description of a one day placemaking workshop in Astoria Oregon.
• Crossroads of the World, Less the Roads by John Tierney, NY Times Metro Section
  Fred Kent comments on his vision for Times Square
• Vision of a New Republic: Plans for Republic Square Emphasize Art, People, and Commerce Austin Chronicle article about the effort to make a great central square.
• Still Planning for Public Spaces as if People Mattered Syndicated Washington Post Columnist Neal Peirce reviews PPS's book, How to Turn a Place Around.
• Man as the Measure of All Things Urban Fred Kent and Kathy Madden's impact in Israel as covered by the Israeli edition of the Herald Tribune.
• An Urbanist Says a Sense of Place is More Important than the Design Itself Architectural Record interview with Fred Kent
• Reviving the Original Human Gathering Place An article about David O'Neil of PPS's Public Market Collaborative.
• Project for Public Spaces A 1987 article from the National Building Museum on PPS
• Traffic Guru to Look at Route 114 By Brian Boyhan, Sag Harbor Express.
• Planning for Public Spaces as if People Mattered 1978 Neal Peirce article about PPS.
• Another New York Story

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