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Still time to join the PPS conference…
About every two years, Projects for Public Spaces hosts a dynamic public market conference that draws a wide selection of market organizers, researchers and municipal officials. This time, this it’s...
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Here at the PPS conference, unexpected relationships can start too
Just like a market, conferences bring people together and from that moment good things can begin. Things like flagship markets meeting up and sharing ideas: (below) Leslie from the Athens OH market...
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Public Farmers?
I often have discussions with people about the term public markets, I assume partly because it is on my business card! I wanted to share these two market definitions: the first done by Project for...
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Project for Public Spaces | Apply Now for Free Technical Assistance
Is your community working to become more livable and sustainable? Are you running into barriers in achieving these goals? Project for Public Spaces is excited to announce free technical assistance...
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“Creative placemaking? What is it that you do?”
And, finally, since these are projects that explicitly set out to make a change, there needs to be a way of knowing whether the change has happened. Some people call this “project evaluation.” We...
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West Side Market adds another day……and some disagreement
As many of my readers know, I spent my early years in the west suburbs of Cleveland. Like many of us, I occasionally trucked over to the West Side Market to buy special items or to soak up the...
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A link to my reviews of 3 new books that may inspire some to get thee to city hall or at least remind us of the possibilities of better design of urban places. On a related note, I think every food...
View ArticleRetail anthropology for markets
Many years ago, a researcher named William (Holly) Whyte started studying the flow of people in public spaces, leading to classic books on the subject, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980) and...
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