Whois & Analysis for pps.org

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization based in New York dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities.

Planning and design rooted in the community form the cornerstone of PPS’s work.

Building on the techniques of William H.

Whyte's "Street Life Project," this approach involves looking at, listening to, and asking questions of the people in a community to discover their needs and aspirations.

It was founded in 1975 by Fred Kent.

A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places.

Social movements are a type of group action.

They are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues.

In other words, they carry out, resist, or undo a social change.

In philosophy, ideas are usually construed as mental representational images of some object.

Ideas can also be abstract concepts that do not present as mental images.

Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being.

The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered to be an essential and defining feature of human beings.

In a popular sense, an idea arises in a reflexive, spontaneous manner, even without thinking or serious reflection, for example, when we talk about the idea of a person or a place.

A new or original idea can often lead to innovation.

Globalization or globalisation (see spelling differences) is the action or procedure of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.

Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.