New York, NY - The Urban Parks Institute at Project for Public Spaces, America's leading public spaces nonprofit, has received a holiday donation from the architectural and landscape architectural firm, Ratio Architects, Inc.

Ratio chose the Urban Parks Institute (UPI) because of the high quality of UPI's work.

"We believe the Institute's focus upon local participation and control, highly active programming and unrelenting maintenance is a very appropriate message to be sending to park stakeholders across the nation, and we wish to thank them for their substantial contribution" says Kenneth Boyee, Principal-in-Charge of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture at Ratio.

For details about the Urban Parks Institute visit www.urbanparks.pps.org or phone 212 620 5660.

Books, 'Public Parks, Private Partners' and 'How to Turn a Place Around' can be ordered online, http://www.pps.org/Products/products_publications.html

For further details about Ratio Architects visit: http://www.ratioarchitects.com/about.htm

Related Link: Urban Parks Online

For more information contact:

Harriet Festing
Project for Public Spaces
153 Waverly Place, 4th Floor
New York
NY 10014-3872
U.S.A

Phone: 212 620 5660
Fax: 212 620 3821
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.pps.org