Project for Public Spaces

Why Choose Project for Public Spaces?

More and more clients are choosing PPS when they need planning and design services. Here are ten reasons why.

1. Focus on communities:
We are pioneers in community involvement, using a range of techniques--including workshops, customized surveys, and interactive planning tools--that help residents and stakeholders create a vision to turn a place around.
2. Places, not designs:
We help people create active, thriving places, not just designs with little relevance to everyday life.
3. Proven track record:
We have 30 years of experience and have worked in nearly 2,000 neighborhoods, 47 states and 26 countries.
4. Variety of experience:
We work in all kinds of public spaces, from streets and transit stations to waterfronts, markets, parks, squares, public buildings, and more!
5. Holistic approach:
We look at the relationships between spaces--recognizing, for example, that a park cannot be improved without also considering adjacent streets--rather than treating these spaces in isolation.
6. Wide range of services:
Our skills run from visioning and conceptual design to design management and implementation.
7. Results-oriented:
We focus on addressing practical, real-world needs. Our phased action plans start with small-scale, high-impact improvements that can be implemented immediately, building momentum for broad, transformative change.
8. International reputation:
Our work is well known and respected, enabling us to develop collaborative partnerships and leverage funding and resources for projects as they are being conceived.
9. Broad knowledge-base
We conduct research and education programs that continually inform and enrich our planning and design services.
10. Committed to the public interest:
As a non-profit organization, we emphasize the public interest and apply our ideals with integrity to every project we work on.

Contact Sandy Pan at span@pps.org or call (212) 620-5660 for more information on how PPS can work in your community.