Abstract
The placemaking movement has gained traction in the Western world since the sixties, and the Project for Public Spaces has been in its forefront. Senior VP of the PPS, Ethan Kent, spoke in October 2016 at the Institute for Policy and Governance’s “Community Voices” with Vanessa Guerra, a doctoral student in Environmental Design and Planning, Vera Smirnova, a doctoral student in Urban Affairs and Planning, and Heather Lyne, a Master’s student in the Public and International Affairs program, all from Virginia Tech
Highlights
The placemaking movement has gained traction in the Western world since the sixties, and the Project for Public Spaces has been in its forefront
EK: So the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a not for profit, we’ve been around for over forty years and we were set up to sort of put into practice the work of William White and Jane Jacobs and really develop ways of applying the theories of William and Jane Jacobs in one way about how cities and neighborhoods work in public spaces and so a lot of our work initially was doing a lot of user-centered design, studying how people behave in public spaces and making recommendations and in the last twenty years, as we sort of developed a placemaking as a process
HL: Leading off of the right to the city, I know that PPS has a relationship with the UN Habitat agency, based off that right to the city resolution
Summary
EK: So the Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a not for profit, we’ve been around for over forty years and we were set up to sort of put into practice the work of William White and Jane Jacobs and really develop ways of applying the theories of William and Jane Jacobs in one way about how cities and neighborhoods work in public spaces and so a lot of our work initially was doing a lot of user-centered design, studying how people behave in public spaces and making recommendations and in the last twenty years, as we sort of developed a placemaking as a process. EK: With UN Habitat, they’ve really developed a robust public space program in collaboration with us over the last several years and I’ve developed some tool kits that have recently been released, lots of case studies of how cities are leading in many different contexts from informal communities to more formal ones.
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