Project for public spaces

On April 22nd, Milwaukee was announced as one of the six 2015 Heart of the Community cities. Over the next six months, the local project team and PPS used “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” (LQC) Placemaking principles to ensure that the The Spot 4MKE continued to be a collaborative, inclusive, and community-led project.

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We are on the verge of a public space revolution as our society realizes just how vital these shared areas can be for promoting the vitality of our cities and of ourselves. Our opinion is that the previous approaches to planning public spaces will need to be heavily altered to truly suit the needs of our evolving, interconnected lifestyles. #Publicspaces #Newvision #Publicspacerevolution #Nexterapublicspaces

While cities incorporate art into public spaces in a variety of ways, the focus of this initiative is what we’re calling asphalt art: visual interventions on roadways (intersections and crosswalks), p

This study, along with the exhibition of students works, represents yet another aspect of our cooperation and contribution to our common tendencies for creating more beautiful, vital and accessible pu

Have you ever wondered why some city spaces are working out well for people, and others are not? Discover William H. Whyte's recipe for good public spaces!

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Growing up in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the biggest metropolitan in Vietnam, with the population up to 9 million , and having lived in the city center, more than often, I have been too familiar with th

Ashford council suspended 8 parking bays on Bank Street in the town centre to trial alternative use of parking bays. The scheme also includes children's play features and green screens to protect pedestrians from the adjacent active highway!

We recently partnered with Fountain House—a national nonprofit fighting to improve health, increase opportunity, and end social and economic isolation for people most impacted by mental illness—to explore trust-building in social design. The result is the Recharge Station, a kiosk located in New York City's Times Square providing water, blankets, clothing, and other essentials as well as access to mental health services and housing resources.

Urban Gatherings is a series of urban furniture proposed for Beirut Souks outdoor spaces after careful observation and analysis of people behavior, activities and needs.

The street architecture is a public easement shared by all kinds of people. It is an important element through which one can experience a place. #architecture #architecturedesign #architects #streetarchitecturedesign #streetarchitecturepublicspaces #streetarchitectureurban

Indian streets are vibrant public spaces, yet over 70% lack pedestrian footpaths, resulting in unsafe conditions for the city's growing population.

The book presents an urban project approach, which was driven by a series of concerns about the permanent problem of marginality. It contributes to the debate on possibilities of architecture and urba

“A focus on place & #Placemaking can be the grounding mechanism for #innovation. https://t.co/QuloFbfzCT #XSector”

.@NAREIMDialogues @pinthecreep Updated version of that 1997 "Place Diagram". http://t.co/npyRc5HsLm #Placemaking

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