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PPS Workshop Inspires Bold Action in Blind River

By Craig Raphael on Jun 17, 2009 | Add Comment

Contributed by Mandy Johnson

On May 14th, Cynthia Nikitin of PPS keynoted the Ontarians Walking Now workshop in Blind River, Ontario. Shortly after the workshop, the Blind River attendees put together a plan to make a beautiful but desolate beach in a central part of the town one of ten great [...]

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Chicagoland’s Best Places: Nominate Your Favorite!

By Craig Raphael on Jun 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Placemaking Chicago campaign is asking Chicagoans to nominate their favorites places.  PPS and Metropolitan Planning Council kicked off the campaign last fall with training courses for municipal and community leaders and publishing PPS’s first handbook for community-based placemaking.  The campaign is now seeking to broaden the conversation in Chicago about [...]

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Now is the ideal time to invest in public spaces

By Craig Raphael on Jun 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

In 2006, PPS was hired by the city of Tempe to create a comprehensive open space plan for their downtown, which has experienced rapid growth in recent years. The plan proposed improvements for more than 30 places that made up the fabric of the downtown experience in order to create a more lively, pedestrian friendly environment [...]

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Car-Free German Town Captures American Imagination

By Craig Raphael on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

Eliminating or heavily restricting cars would be impossible for nearly every city and suburb in America. Yet a small car-free town in Germany profiled in this week’s New York Times has intrigued and inspired Americans to consider a tantalizing possibility: what if we didn’t need cars to perform everyday tasks?

The #1 most [...]

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Portland Re-Use Building Creates Place for Social Engagement around Environment

By sstein on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment

Last week while visiting Portland, OR, I stumbled upon the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center.  I was intrigued by the building and surrounding area – the square block space was inviting and offered a great place to sit and get a smoothie at the center’s café.   Inside, the building resembles a transformed warehouse with large [...]

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Lincoln Place Placemaking Workshop

By jchao on May 12, 2009 | Add Comment

For passengers getting off the train in Madison, NJ, Lincoln Place is a ‘gateway’ to the downtown business district. The street houses the post office, train station and movie theater.  However, Lincoln Place lacks the public gathering points and inviting character that marks the rest of downtown Madison. It also needs improvements in sidewalks, parking [...]

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Design that’s Environmental

By Aurash Khawarzad on May 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

Stormwater management can no longer be looked at as simply a utility to manage environmental resources. It’s now also become an important tool in the placemaking process.

For decades, localities have relied on stormwater infrastructure that was costly, utilitarian, and damaging for the natural environment. But recent innovations in the field of sustainable [...]

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City Launches Round Two of NYC Plaza Program

By Robin Lester on Apr 17, 2009 | Add Comment

The City of New York has announced the first nine recipient sites of its NYC Plaza Program, designed to ensure that every New Yorker is within a 10-minute walk of quality open space.   One recipient, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, worked with PPS in 2007 to evaluate four sites [...]

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‘Triangulation’ for Chicago’s Polish Triangle

By Robin Lester on Apr 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council, our partner in Placemaking Chicago, a city-wide Placemaking campaign, continues to make strides in applying Placemaking in Chicago.

Their latest project is the transformation of the intersection of Division Street, Ashland Avenue, and Milwaukee Avenue, at a crossroads also known as the Polish Triangle.  MPC has gathered insight [...]

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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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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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