this might help:

Project for Public Spaces

thanks-I've been looking on that site. Anyone know some architects to look at in addition?

turn off computer. go to architecture library. find librarian. find avery index. look up subject. write down location. go to stacks. find periodical. remove periodical from stack. return to desk. open periodical. retrieve information. rinse and repeat...

thanks smartass-been doing that too-just looking towards my fellow archinecters to see if there is anyone I should look at in particular. I didn't come here before going other places.

I like West8's Schouwbergplein in Rotterdam. Almost any architect you care to name will have done some public spaces. Who are you interested in?

Parco Della Musica - renzo

Great-Thank you!!!

sasaki

context (indiana)

rundell ernstberger & associates (indiana)

eric fulford (http://www.ninebarkinc.com/) (indiana)

doug suisman (LA)

You may want to check out the exhibit book for the 2005 MOMA Groundswell exibition. It features a collection of landscape urbanist projects, a subset of which dealt with public space.

david adjaye published a book on "Making Public Buildings"

weiss/manfredi's seattle waterfront sculpture park is worth a look-see: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003524511_sculpturepark140.html

and the various public (often park) projects by field operations, hargreaves, edaw, etc. you probably want to look at landscape architecture as much as architects, especially those who get lumped under 'landscape urbanism' these days.

there is a lot of published info on the multiple projects making up the rotterdam waterfront and how it's been regenerated, especially from the area called kop van zuid and extending to unstudio's bridge and the development around the springpoint of it.

the public place that i pm'd in east grand rapids was on good morning america yesterday.

Are the guys from pps just stealing the power of ten from the Eames or are they former employees or somethin'?

sometimes it also helps just to have a clear idea even before u start researching. landscape arch can be just as conceptually deliberate as achitecture proper. researching without hindsight of what your intentions are might just be like flipping through endless options and u might end up being more confused.

Before most of us were born there was Lawrence Halprin

try some of the following:

New Public Spaces by Sarah Gaventa (Hardcover - Mar 1, 2006)

Open: New Designs for Public Spaces by Raymond W. Gastil and Zoë Ryan (Paperback - April 30, 2004)

The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation by Zoë Ryan and Iain Borden (Paperback - Jul 2007)

www.federationsquare.com.au

among others.

thank you all for your help...