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How Walking and Biking Add Value to Your Community and Change the System: An Interview with John Norquist

By Mina Keyes on Jul 10, 2012 | 6 Comments

Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place keynote speaker John Norquist, who currently serves as the President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, spoke with us recently about the role and responsibility of decision makers, what urbanists need to learn, and what CNU’s 2012 Transportation Summit—immediately preceding Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro [...]

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A Revolution in Placemaking

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

Since the Project for Public Spaces was founded in 1975,we have worked in thousands of communities around the world to help people shape their public spaces to create great Places, where locals feel a sense of ownership, and visitors don’t want to leave. Still, for as much fun as we’ve had, something feels different lately. [...]

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How “Small Change” Leads to Big Change: Social Capital and Healthy Places

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 6, 2012 | 7 Comments

According to Dr. Richard Jackson, a pioneering public health advocate and former CDC official now serving as the Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA, the idea that buildings, streets, and public spaces play a key role in the serious public health issues that we face in the US “has undergone a profound sea change [...]

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It’s a Good Week to be a Bicyclist

By Project for Public Spaces on May 15, 2012 | Add Comment
No matter why you ride, there's a great reason to get out this week and explore your city on two wheels.
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Complete Streets: One Size Does Not Fit All

By Project for Public Spaces on May 9, 2012 | Add Comment
Complete Streets are about much more than just bike lanes! As we see in this video of Gary Toth's recent talk in Toronto, Place plays a critical role.
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Early Bird Registration for Pro Walk / Pro Bike 2012: "Pro Place" is Now Open

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
The reduced-rate early registration period is now open for the 17th Pro Walk / Pro Bike conference, which will take place from September 10-13, 2012.
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Wider, Straighter, and Faster Not the Solution for Older Drivers

By Gary Toth on Mar 6, 2012 | 9 Comments
This approach not only fails to fix safety problems on urban and suburban arterials -- it actually makes them worse.
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Levels of Service and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets?

By Gary Toth on Feb 6, 2012 | 16 Comments
When we try to eliminate congestion from our urban areas by using decades-old traffic engineering measures and models, we are essentially using a rototiller to weed a flowerbed.
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10 Communities Selected to Receive Technical Assistance

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 16, 2012 | 5 Comments
Livability Solutions are pleased to announce the 10 communities selected to receive free technical assistance this year, thanks to a grant to Project for Public Spaces from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Sustainable Communities under their Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program.These governments and organizations represent a diverse group of communities [...]
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Long Beach has been building a great network of bike lanes, making it a natural choice for next Year's Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference. Photo: waltarrr via Flickr.

Submit Your Proposal for the 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference!

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
The 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference, to be held September 10–13 of next year Long Beach, Ca., is starting to take shape, and you can be a part of it. Do you have a proposal for a presentation? The call for submissions is now open.
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San Antonio's downtown is filled with unrealized Placemaking potential. Photo: Matthew Egan via Flickr.

Mapping the Future of San Antonio’s Downtown, Digitally

By Project for Public Spaces on Nov 22, 2011 | 6 Comments
Digital Placemaking expands and enhances the work that PPS does face-to-face with community members and municipal officials to create great places and to plan for more livable, sustainable communities.
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Due to peak-hour design, Speer Boulevard in Denver limits the northward expansion of downtown Denver while remaining empty at midday. Instead of adding value to the community, it actually limits the city economically, socially, and in every other way. It doesn't even do what it was designed to do: solve congestion during peak hour. I-25, just to the north at the top of the photo, is bumper to bumper during peak hours. The 10-lane cross-sections become a mere parking lot.

Are Complete Streets Incomplete?

By Gary Toth on Nov 17, 2011 | 48 Comments
Complete streets policies are a great start, but they are not enough to make “streets as places.”
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