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NYC Plans to Increase Safety and Ease of City Cycling

By rdahl@pps.org on Dec 6, 2007 | Add Comment

Improvements include increased bike routes, brighter striping to ensure visibility, additional linkages between bike paths for safer rides, and over 700 new bike racks throughout the five boroughs by 2009. 

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What a `City of Neighborhoods’ Can Learn From a Book About Them

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 29, 2007 | Add Comment

Author of The Great Neighborhood Book Jay Walljasper shows how communities can become cities of great neighbors.

“Blessed with laws, humbled by climate, unburdened by history or destiny, Torontonians remake the world in their small communities, adding yoga, sweat lodge, dim sum or doughnuts to their lives.”

– Deanne Taylor, playwright, in [...]

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Fight for Pedestrians Rights in Athens

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Up against indifference from goverment officials and oppression from overpowering vehicles, young Athenians stand up to take back the sidewalks for pedestrians. Due to poor planning, limited space, and an increase in drivership, Athenian drivers have become accustomed to illegally parking on sidewalks and other walkways despite blockades, barriers, or restrictions. Due to the lack of [...]

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Lessons Learned from Downtown Redevelopment

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Small-scale revitalization takes shape in Albuquergue with large-scale impacts. The city opted to redevelop existing buildings, rather than tearing down their history. Small changes have resulted in a unique sense of place with a “human face” in the city’s downtown.

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A Simple Path to Strong Neighborhoods

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 14, 2007 | Add Comment

A Simple Path to Strong Neighborhoods

Author Jay Walljasper Shows How Small Efforts Build Community

Dave Hage of the Star Tribune has a Q&A session with Jay Walljasper, author of the The Great Neighborhood Book, about how strong neighborhoods are the building blocks of great cities and a healthy society.

Q. [...]

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Developing Community, Not Just Buildings

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Developer Jonathan Rose discusses the importance of community based design. He advocates hollistic planning; grounded in an understanding of community needs like urban sustainability and cultural development.

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Farmers’ Market Traffic Boosts Surrounding Businesses

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 30, 2007 | Add Comment

In an effort to attract more traffic to downtown businesses, one New Jersey downtown partnership planned for a diverse farmer’s market in a plaza, just off of the city’s main traffic artery. Surveys show that 80 percent of the 1,000 weekly market customers, also visited local businesses while at the farmers’ market.

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Survey Shows Americans Support Building Communities and Mass Transit

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 30, 2007 | Add Comment

The 2007 Growth and Transportation Survey shows that Three-fourths of Americans surveyed believe that developing communities that reduce the need to drive and improving public transportation are both better long-term solutions for reducing traffic congestion than building new roads.

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‘Place-making’ Forum Focuses on Local Flavor

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 29, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS Vice President Ethan Kent was one of the presenters at the Sustainable Tourism Development Forum held in Pawtucket, RI on Thursday, October 25, 2007.

The Providence Journal

By Philip Marcelo

PAWTUCKET— Policymakers, city planners and tourism officials from Rhode Island and neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts gathered downtown yesterday for a [...]

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New Urbanism = Historic Urbanism

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 25, 2007 | Add Comment

In essence new urbanism is really historic urbanism. If you look at how city centers were established pre-1900 you will notice that almost all downtown areas were bustling economic centers with a high level of density. Looking further back in historical times to the towns across Europe you will find this urban model mimics itself [...]

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Public Space Plan Released for Penn Station

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 25, 2007 | Add Comment

The Spitzer administration has released plans for a rebuilt Penn Station, complete with natural light pouring in and a “grand public space” in a new, rezoned business district on Manhattan’s far West Side.
The new plans would also create 7.5 million square feet of mixed use development, including a commercial district that would [...]

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Author Jay Walljasper discusses The Great Neighborhood Book

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 23, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS Senior Fellow Jay Walljasper discusses The Great Neighborhood Book at the The Micro Revolution: Neighbors Making a Difference event held in Chicago on September 20, 2007.

Neighbors Making a Difference

By Jay Walljasper

“My hope that day was to showcase inspiring examples of how everyday citizens made tremendous improvements in the [...]

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