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‘Streets For People’ Campaign Kicks off in Seattle

By Brian Geraghty on Mar 5, 2009 | 5 Comments

‘What’s your street for?’ is the motto of Seattle’s new Streets for People Campaign.  Modeled in many ways after the ‘Open source’ NYC Street Renaissance Campaign that PPS helped to found, Streets for People’s approach to advocacy is to connect, convene and inspire a new conversation about how streets can best [...]

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PPS Featured on NYTimes Website

By Craig Raphael on Mar 2, 2009 | Add Comment

PPS Vice President Steve Davies’ commentary on the new pedestrian improvements  coming soon to Broadway was featured on the “Room for Debate” blog on the New York Times website. To read the article, please click here.

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PPS Training: Streets as Places

By dkitzes on Feb 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

PPS offers “Streets as Places,” a two-day transportation & Placemaking training seminar intended to introduce participants to new ways of thinking about streets and how Placemaking can be used to build great streets and great communities.

Click here for more information.

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Broadway Dreams to be Realized

By Craig Raphael on Feb 26, 2009 | 7 Comments

Many more people will soon get their chance to be on Broadway.  In a bold and exciting development, Janette Sadik-Kahn, the head of NYC DOT, announced that the city will close several sections of Broadway to car traffic as early as May. The street closures will be filled with tables, seating and other pedestrian amenities [...]

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A world where “cars have a right to housing and people don’t”

By jgalef on Feb 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

Via Wired, a transportation planner makes an impassioned plea for overhauling our car-centric mindset. Our cities have become places where “cars have a right to housing and people don’t,” lamented Timothy Papandreau at a recent symposium called Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility.

Just think of the space required to support our [...]

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In Santiago, Chile: When Public Spaces Come First, both City and Developer Win

By Craig Raphael on Feb 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

Despite being in one of Santiago’s most important neighborhoods and anchored by one of the busiest train and bus stations in the city, the Las Condes plazas and commercial galleries had become a place to pass through as quickly as possible. After the galleries were built in the 1980s, they steadily lost [...]

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10th International Walk21 Pedestrian Planning Conference, Cynthia Nikitin to speak.

By dkitzes on Dec 22, 2008 | Add Comment

The New York City Department of Transportation will host the 10th International Walk21 Pedestrian Planning Conference. PPS is serving on the conference advisory committee.

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Hollywood May Place Green Cap on Freeway

By ksalay@pps.org on Nov 7, 2006 | Add Comment

“In a town built on make-believe, Hollywood leaders are hoping to pull off the greatest feat yet: creating a public park out of thin air.

Civic and business organizers want to turn a half-mile portion of the Hollywood Freeway into a tunnel and construct a 24-acre greenbelt swath from Bronson Avenue to Wilton Place on [...]

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