Place making urban spaces

In evaluating thousands of public spaces around the world, PPS has found that successful ones have four key qualities.

In this Guest Post from our colleagues at Project for Public Spaces, they delve into why good public space matters and how to make it.

What makes great urban life?

NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship. NEXT.cc introduces what design is, what design does and why design is important through over 100 journeys.

With community-based participation at its center, an effective Placemaking process capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration, and potential, and it results in the creation of quality public spaces that contribute to people's health, happiness, and well being.

“A Guide for Creating a Playable City” explores the idea of a "Playable City" as an ecosystem of playable opportunities intertwined within the existing urban infrastructure that doesn't just disrupt our daily lives but adds to it. Looking at how play can begin to exist in everyday spaces, and encourage people to think about these spaces that could become PLAYces: like a crosswalk, laundromat, building facade, sidewalk, bus stop, or just the everyday space in-between. How these often once…

In many historic urban cities around the world, alleyways have been integrated into the urban landscapes, playing an important role in shaping the cultural, social and civic activities. Alleys in some younger modern cities, however, have been viewed as service corridors between buildings, associate

Shangai-based architecture studio, 100Architects, creates colorful and playful urban interventions that encourage social dynamics.

A ULI member from Pittsburgh calls for the real estate industry to help broaden the discussion of infrastructure to include a range of enabling urban systems such as energy, water, food production, and material infrastructure—and this time design them for and with the people these systems serve.

public space: European Prize for Urban Public Space