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How New York Got its Groove Back …

By kziegenfuss@pps.org on Jun 23, 2006 | Add Comment

Fixing the “broken windows” as an approach to improving a city.

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Minneapolis Could Learn from New York

By kziegenfuss@pps.org on Jun 23, 2006 | Add Comment

This editorial compares the current situation in Minneapolis with New York in the 1980′s, by signaling out the idea that the single most important feature of successful urban life is trusting the stranger.

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New Film Shows Route to Livable, Gridlock-Free Streets

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 21, 2006 | Add Comment

A new documentary Contested Streets explores ways cities around the world are breaking free from the chokehold of traffic, enhancing quality of life and environmental sustainability and allowing room for their economies to grow and flourish.  The film was produced by PPS’s partners in the NYC Streets Renaissance Campaign, Mark Gorton, director of the Lime [...]

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Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

Please join the Center for the Living City in celebrating the life of Jane Jacobs on Wednesday, June 28, from 5:00 – 7:00, Washington Square Park, in front of the Arch, the site of her first victory over Robert Moses.

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Group Calls for Major Changes in Atlantic Yards Plan, Brooklyn

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 16, 2006 | Add Comment

The Municipal Art Society called yesterday for significant changes to the proposed Atlantic Yards project near Downtown Brooklyn, saying that the current plan would overwhelm the surrounding neighborhoods and burden the area with more traffic.

Members of MAS, an association of architects, designers and planners founded in 1893, leveled the criticisms during a presentation [...]

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Faux Suburban Downtowns Challenge Traditional City Centers

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 5, 2006 | Add Comment

The popularity of mixed-use suburban town centers is threatening the viability of older, traditional downtowns. While many tout their urban-style amenities, the suburban centers often lack transit and — sometimes — even sidewalks.

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Jane Jacobs’ Book on the Urban Life Cycle and Community Issues Still Resonates 45 Years Later

By ksalay@pps.org on May 31, 2006 | Add Comment

Jane Jacobs, who died last month at age 89, is best known as the author of the influential 1961 book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Much of what she wrote is still relevant to 21st century challenges and discourse about smart growth, planning and land use regulation, urban revitalization, historic preservation and [...]

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A Mixed-use, Walkable Development Arrives In Atlanta

By ksalay@pps.org on May 30, 2006 | Add Comment

The success of Atlantic Station, a large scale mixed-use urban development, proves the need for a more pedestrian friendly environment in auto-dominated Atlanta.

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NYC Streets Renaissance Exhibit Moves to Times Square

By ksalay@pps.org on May 19, 2006 | Add Comment

The NYC Streets Renaissance exhibit, Livable Streets: A New Vision for New York, has moved from the Municipal Arts Society to the lobby of 4 Times Square, the Conde Nast Building.

The exhibit will focus on a vision for Broadway as a grand boulevard containing more than 20 unique destinations, with Times Square as the [...]

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Developer Defends Atlantic Yards, Saying Towers Won’t Corrupt the Feel of Brooklyn

By ksalay@pps.org on May 12, 2006 | Add Comment

Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, said the new design is “still way too big, and does not change the fact of 16 skyscrapers slammed on top of and next to low-rise, historic neighborhoods.”

Frank Gehry, the project’s architect, and Laurie Olin, its landscape designer, emphasized details that they said would harmonize [...]

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Godmother of the American City

By ksalay@pps.org on May 1, 2006 | 3 Comments

In memory of Jane Jacobs, one of urban planning’s most influential critics, Metropolis Magazine reprints James Howard Kunstler’s interview with her, from September 2000.

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How Jane Jacobs Challenged ‘Olympian’ Planners

By ksalay@pps.org on May 1, 2006 | Add Comment

Jane Jacobs had no college degree in architecture or urban planning. How did she defiantly challenge influential figures such as urban-renewal “czar” Robert Moses?

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