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Jane Jacobs

Host a Jane’s Walk in your Neighborhood

By Megan MacIver on Apr 5, 2011 | Add Comment
Honor Jacob's legacy and catalyze change in your community.
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In Oak Cliff, Texas, community members initiated the process of right-sizing their street by orchestrating a temporary right-sizing event. Photo from Go Oak Cliff

Right-Sizing the Street: Not Just for the DOT Anymore

By Aurash Khawarzad on Mar 30, 2011 | 8 Comments
Communities are realizing that the network of streets permeating their neighborhoods is not sacrosanct territory but public space they can play an active role in planning and shaping.
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Grand Avenue in L.A.: the new Model Street Manual aims to make streets more welcoming for people

A New Model Streets Manual to Rewrite Los Angeles’ “DNA”

By Megan MacIver on Mar 25, 2011 | 4 Comments
L.A. County has begun to rewrite the “DNA” of its streets with a new Model Streets Manual to support improved safety, livability and active transportation options.
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Cleveland’s historic West Side Market is an incubator for over 100 locally-owned food businesses

Cleveland Chosen to Host PPS’ 8th International Public Markets Conference

By Megan MacIver on Mar 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
The 3-day event, planned for September or October of 2012, will bring together over 300 participants including noted planners and designers, accomplished market managers, and visionary leaders.
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Myrtle Avenue Plaza Community meeting

Community Input Drives New Plans for a Safer, More Welcoming Myrtle Avenue Plaza

By Will Stein on Mar 20, 2011 | Add Comment
NYCDOT opens plans for public review: “...The main purpose is to make the pedestrian experience more enjoyable...”
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A Focus on Place for Downtown Baltimore’s New Open Space Plan

By Megan MacIver on Mar 1, 2011 | 5 Comments
How a BID used workshops, experts, and new digital engagement methods to create a broad community vision and re-imagine public space in a 125 block downtown area.
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Community members brainstorm possible partners and activities they'd like to see at the year-round public market

Transforming an Empty Building into a Year-Round Hub for Local Food

By Megan MacIver on Feb 28, 2011 | Add Comment
Plans for Boston's new downtown market have been guided by a participatory process involving local residents who say they want their market to feature fresh, regional food.
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Protesters gather in Tahir Square. Flickr Photo by Ramy Raoof

Public Space Powered Democracy

By Project for Public Spaces on Feb 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
The exercise of democracy depends upon having a literal commons where people can gather as citizens—a square, Main Street, park or other public space that is open to all.
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The Fight for More Public Space: A Community-Led Campaign For A New Park in Jackson Heights, NYC

By Hannah Aronshtein on Feb 14, 2011 | Add Comment
To overcome a lengthy review process standing in the way of plans for a park, the local community is using a different funding model to build a new public space.
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Marcus Westbury

How Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Interventions Can Catalyze City-Wide Renewal

By Project for Public Spaces on Feb 3, 2011 | 9 Comments
Marcus Westbury of Renew Australia reveals insights on a new model for revitalization that harnesses the creativity of the local community and explains ways that "cheap" place-by-place interventions can create new life for an entire district.
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Nominate Your Public Space for the ULI Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award

By Megan MacIver on Jan 26, 2011 | Add Comment
The award is a $10,000 cash prize for an outstanding public destination in the United States that has enriched and revitalized its surrounding community. The application deadline is February 18, 2011.
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Human Cities Book Cover

A New Guide to Public Space Planning in Europe

By Andrew Lappin on Jan 11, 2011 | 1 Comment

For those looking to learn more about current developments in the planning of urban public space, the new book Human Cities is an excellent guide to a different approach towards designing cities.  Rather than focusing on a “definition of what is (or is not) urban public space,” Human Cities offers new methodologies for thinking about and [...]

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