Creating and sustaining public places that build communities

Project for Public Spaces

PPS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. PPS provides technical assistance, education, and research through programs in parks, plazas and central squares; buildings and civic architecture; transportation; and public markets. Since the founding in 1975, PPS has worked in over 1,000 communities in the United States and around the world, helping people to grow their public spaces into vital community places.
PPS's staff is trained in environmental design, architecture, urban planning, urban geography, environmental psychology, landscape architecture, arts administration and information management. The staff also collaborates on projects with architecture, landscape architecture and engineering firms, graphic design firms, transportation consultants, retail planners and community organizations.

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