Place making urban spaces

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

Project for Public Spaces

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.

Image 2 of 5 from gallery of From Dead Space to Public Place: How Improving Alleys Can Help Make Better Cities. 20ft Wide alley in Austin, Texas. Image © Michael Knox

Urbhang is an urban intervention aiming to activate a public space and transform it into a lively experience, by creating an outdoor public living room where people are invited to sit, read, rest, play, work, meet and interact. Urbhang is a series of hanging urban installations for hanging out.

The city of Boston has been the stage for a long history of experiments with public space. Most notably, the Boston Common is the oldest public park in the country – and perhaps the first public urban park in the world. Originally a shared cow pasture until overgrazing led to a real-life example...

The Victorian chapter of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects announces its 2012 awards.

Interim public plaza in Philadelphia via the NACTO design guide. Click for more examples & visit the slowottawa.ca boards >> http://www.pinterest.com/slowottawa/

Urban plugins is a series of flexible urban furniture, modular extensions that can be plugged to existing planters and light poles forming different configurations.

Find out how a child-friendly approach to urban planning and design is vital for the creation of cities that work better for everyone. Read more.