“How To Turn a Place Around. A Handbook for Creating Successful Public Spaces” (Project for Public Spaces, Project for Public Spaces Inc., New York, 2000)

The book written by PPS (Project for Public Spaces), a non-profit planning and design organization dedicating to preserving and increasing public spaces, originates from twenty-five years ago technical assistance, research, education, planning and design activities. The experience of this organization is closely connected to the fertile American research tradition opened by William H. Whyte (the mentor of PPS) and by the more critical and less operational Jane Jacobs' work. From that work traditions PPS inherits the richness of multidimensional and well-organized outlook on the public spaces design in which are involved technical, morphological, functional, symbolic and perceptive elements, able to gather and to position in a profitable way the different knowledge.