Kathy Madden Biography

Kathy Madden is an environmental designer who has been at Project for Public Spaces since its inception in 1975. During this time Kathy has been involved in all aspects of the organization’s work. She has directed over 300 research and urban design projects along with training programs throughout the U.S and abroad. She also currently directs PPS’s Placemaking Training and Public Space Research and Publications programs.
Kathy has co-authored and written both books and articles including the PPS bestselling publication How to Turn a Place Around which has now been translated into Czech and Japanese. She has lectured extensively and conducts in conjunction with other PPS staff PPS’s semi-annual How to Turn a Place Around training program in New York. While at PPS she taught for six years at the Pratt School of Architecture Graduate Program in Urban Design.
In 1995 Kathy started the Urban Parks Institute with a $2.2 million grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. The Institute brought together over 2000 parks leaders from both the private and public sectors in eight national conferences and four regional workshops. The Institute produced a volume of research and publications related to urban parks and created a major online resource center for urban parks best practices and research Urban Parks Online which attracts over 1 million page views annually.

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