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A keynote speech from the 2001 Great Parks/Great Cities conference. </li> <li><a href="goodplaces"> Good Places </a> An Urban Parks Institute article covering the four cornerstones of a good place: uses & activities, access & linkage, comfort & image - and perhaps most important - sociability. </li> <li><a href="roberta"> Doing It Wrong To Get It Right </a> Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz on what's needed to truly revitalize our cities. </li> <li><a href="Kretzman1"> Rediscovering Community Through Parks </a> A keynote address by John P. Kretzmann, Co-Director of Northwestern University's Asset-Based Community Development Institute. </li> <li><a href="10_benefits"> Ten Benefits of Creating Good Public Spaces </a> Brief case studies of cities where well-designed public spaces have had demonstrable positive impacts. <br> <i>Project for Public Spaces</i> </li> <li><a href="benefits_public_spaces"> What is a Great Civic Space? </a> An article about the benefits of good civic spaces, with focus on how they create identity, improve the local economy, help the environment, and provide settings for cultural and social activities.<br> <i>Project for Public Spaces</i> </li> <li><a href="/web/20080614180431/http://www.pps.org/info/amenities_bb/"> Furnishing Your Public Space </a> Learn about the "whys and wherefores" of public-space amenities with this series of features. Each offers design and use guidelines to help lay people and professional designers work with each other. 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