The Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a non-profit community design consulting firm based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1975 by Fred Kent , a student and colleague of anthropologist Margaret Meade. Mr. Kent travels the globe to help cities and neighborhoods create inviting public spaces. PPS embraces the insights of Mr. Kent's former colleague, Wiliam Holly Whyte, a pioneer in understanding the way people use public spaces, and taking this into account when designing, improving, managing, or programming activities for them. Today, PPS is an international center for best-practices, information, and resources about " Placemaking ."

PPS applies its Placemaking approach to various types of public spaces, from waterfronts to downtowns to campuses, and at many different scales, from regional transit systems to city-wide street networks to neighborhood parks and plazas.

Streets As Places Campaign

PPS is undertaking a major initiative called “Streets as Places.” This initiative seeks to engage citizens, policymakers and the transportation industry at-large to reshape the planning and design of transportation networks and streets to promote and support economic vitality, civic engagement, human health, and environmental sustainability, while simultaneously meeting peoples’ mobility needs.

The overarching goal of Streets as Places is to transform the design and construction of public streets into places that improve the quality of human life and the environment rather than simply move vehicles from place to place. This campaign seeks to support Placemaking and produce beneficial community outcomes through the transformation of federal, state, and metropolitan transportation policy and practice that currently favors and prioritizes movement of vehicles over people and community, as well as influencing the design and construction of the highways and streets that reflect these policies.

Through research, advocacy, training, and tool development, this campaign aims to inspire and organize citizens, policy makers, and the transportation industry to reshape community transportation networks and streets into places that provide greater economic vitality and more opportunities for civic engagement, as well as promoting the priorities of human health and environmental sustainability.

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ALSO ON THE LIVABLE STREETS NETWORK

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[1] Oceanside, California, raised crosswalk. Photo by Andy Hamilton, WalkSanDiego

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