Building Community, Creating Places,
Using Common Sense

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public places that build communities.

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Registration for PPS’ in-house training courses in New York City is now open!

The dates are as follows:
Streets as Places: September 15-16
How to Turn a Place Around: September 25-26
How to Create Successful Markets: October 17-18

Survey: PPS needs your thoughts on this website.
By completing the survey you will be entered in a random drawing to win three of PPS’s feature publications (The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, How to Turn a Place Around and The Great Neighborhood book), along with a PPS totebag. Click here.

PPS is cultivating strategic partnerships with NGOs worldwide
PPS is partnering with NGOs worldwide to support Placemaking and community-based planning in more cities and regions. Relationships are being cultivated to support local advocates for change, build local capacity, exchange information & resources, develop new networks, and cultivate collaborative projects. To learn more about how your organization can partner with PPS please contact Alex White at awhite@pps.org or Kathy Madden at kmadden@pps.org.

PPS launches international licensing program; Last year, international trainings, workshops and presentations accounted for almost half of our work, including projects in China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia as well as Europe and North America.