Events
NAN strives to make neighborhoods better places to live and work. NAN sponsors and supports events that help achieve this mission.
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Project for Public
Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit planning, design and
educational organization dedicated to helping people
create and sustain public spaces that build stronger
communities. |
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Streets as Places
will introduce participants to new
ways of thinking about streets as public spaces and
how Placemaking can be used to build great streets
and great communities. It is intended for anyone who
is interested in creating a great street, including
transportation professionals, civic and elected
officials, and citizen activists. Specific topics
will include transportation and land use, community
engagement, street design flexibility, transit and
station planning, and bicycle friendly streets.
Participants will visit New York City sites that
have been turned into pedestrian quality places,
including Times Square, Broadway Plazas, and Greeley
Square
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November
10-11, 2011 |
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October
2-28 - 2011
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How to Turn a Place Around introduces new ways of thinking about public spaces and how Placemaking and creating the city of the future can be transformative for neighborhoods, towns, cities, regions and even countries. Drawing upon PPS’ work in cities across the globe, this training course will provide a variety of tools for evaluating public spaces and case study examples of successful solutions that unlocked the economic potential of public spaces. >> |
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How to Create Successful Markets will focus on four
crucial elements to successful markets: the right
mix of vendors and products; a strong sense of
place; solid economic and operational underpinnings;
and a firm commitment to the surrounding community.
Through presentations, working groups, and on-site
tours of New York City’s markets, the workshop will
examine the benefits of markets, market planning and
management, partnership building and community
engagement. |
Summer, 2012 |
November 3-4, 2011 |
Placemaking: Making It Happen
is a two-day training
course focused on how to move ideas into reality by
using a place-based implementation and management
strategy. This training course will describe the
roles that different types of public space
management organizations play, complemented by
lessons learned from experts with hands on
experience implementing improvements and managing
public spaces. Also included are narrated site
visits to a few of the best managed spaces in New
York City and numerous opportunities for networking,
including an optional welcome reception the evening
of November 2. The course will feature presentations by PPS staff, along with Norman Mintz, industrial designer, historic preservationist and designer of public space amenities, Eldon Scott, Director of Urban Space Management and developer of "lighter, quicker, cheaper" projects, and Alan M. Hantman, FAIA,10th Architect of the US Capitol and former Vice President of Architecture, Construction, and Historic Preservation at Rockefeller Center.>>
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| For questions, please contact Dana Kitzes at dkitzes@pps.org | |
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Corporate Roundtable Sharing our commitment to make all of America’s neighborhoods better places to live and work
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