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5 Reasons Pittsburgh is a Must-Visit City for Walkers & Bikers 16 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
Yes, Pittsburgh pretty much always looks this great / Photo: cory.cousins via Flickr Today, the smokestacks and steel mills that made the great city of Pittsburgh famous are mostly long gone. The “Ci...
The Placemaking Roundup: An Agenda for Change 15 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
On the opening morning of the Placemaking Leadership Council inaugural meeting, 13 PLC members gave brief remarks, accompanied by a single image, on work that they have done to change a place or furth...
Starting With the Petunias: LQC Action for Better Public Space 11 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
An artists’ rendition of the official “Library Square” project design proposed by the local authorities in Belfast / Photo: Saul Golden As an architect and urbanist who has grown up and lived in citi...
Citizen Placemaker: Mary Lou Carolan Brings the Library Out Onto the Lawn 29 Jul 2013 | 11:11 pm
Meet Mary Lou! In our Citizen Placemaker series, we chat with amazing and inspiring people from outside the architecture, planning, and government worlds (the more traditional haunts of Placemakers) ...
26 Ways to Make Great Places 17 Jul 2013 | 08:29 pm
The following list is excerpted from the new e-book How to Design Our World for Happiness, edited by Jay Walljasper and the ace team at On the Commons. The best reason for creating community is that ...
Canceling the Curve: A Small Town Rightsizing Success Story 25 Jun 2013 | 08:56 pm
The following post was co-authored by PPS’s Gary Toth and Kody Van Dyk, the Public Works Director for the town of Sandpoint, ID. Photo: USA Today PPS often says, ‘We have to stop building transporta...
Thinking “Outside the Box”: Libraries Innovate to Connect Communities 24 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm
Spotted at the Parmley Billings Library in Billings, MT / Photo: PPS Far from the whisper-quiet halls of yesterday, contemporary libraries are blazing new trails as vibrant hubs of civic activity. Th...
Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design Announces 2013 Awards 12 Jun 2013 | 11:05 pm
Today the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) announced four organizations selected to host design workshops in rural communities. CIRD workshops bring together local leaders, non-profits, comm...
Citizen Placemaker: Nathan Martin on Prototyping a [Semi-]Public Space 10 Jun 2013 | 11:46 pm
Meet Nathan! In our Citizen Placemaker series, we chat with amazing and inspiring people from outside the architecture, planning, and government worlds (the more traditional haunts of Placemakers) wh...
Food For Thought: Why Barcelona’s Markets Are “Super” Places 30 May 2013 | 09:02 pm
“Barcelona residents rank their public markets as the second most valuable public service after libraries” / Photo: PPS When you think of the important places in the social life of your community, wh...
