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Promoting Neighborhood-centered Schools

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 20, 2007 | Add Comment

Planning Director Gail Goldberg and child advocate Yolie Flores Aguilar discuss the movement to make schools more than just places to store kids for eight hours a day.

“If we do not plan for schools to be the joint-use centers of our neighborhoods now, we will be forced to address it later and to [...]

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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Award to Honor Jane Jacobs

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 9, 2007 | Add Comment

The Rockefeller Foundation announced the creation of the Jane Jacobs Medal, an award that will recognize individuals whose creative vision for the urban environment has significantly contributed to the vibrancy and variety of New York City.

The medal will be given annually to two people: one who has made a lifetime contribution and another [...]

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Rural Colleges Seek New Edge and Urbanize

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 7, 2007 | Add Comment

For decades, colleges in rural areas of the country embraced a pastoral ideal, presenting themselves as oases of scholarship surrounded by nothing more distracting than lush farmland and rolling hills. But many officials at such institutions have decided that students today want something completely different: urban buzz.

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Waterfront Art Park To Open In Seattle

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 18, 2007 | Add Comment

A public park and art space is set to open next week along Seattle’s waterfront, replacing a former brownfield site. The new Olympic Sculpture Park was created by the Seattle Art Museum, an expansion of which is set to open in May.

Image (c) Paul Warchol

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Farmers’ Markets Embody our Need for Connection and Community

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 17, 2007 | Add Comment

“Even as our farmland has been devoured by suburban sprawl, Californians have voted with their shopping bags to make farmers’ markets an increasingly ubiquitous element in big cities, small towns and, yes, even those suburbs that pave fields of vegetables. Beyond the showcase pavilion of San Francisco’s Ferry Building — an orgy of organic [...]

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Market Stallholders Challenge Superstores in Britain

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 12, 2007 | Add Comment

“While it seems that “clone town Britain” is on the rise, with independent retailers slowly vanishing at the expense of supermarkets and chain stores, the market remains a feature of many city centres. However, their continuing presence has not been without a battle. With supermarkets offering convenient one-stop shopping, markets are beginning to suffer.”

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The Social Life: Join Us at the Next PPS Happy Hour, January 11th

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Everyone is invited to the next PPS Happy Hour: The Social Life.

WHEN & WHAT TIME: Thursday, January 11, 6pm

SMALL URBAN SPACE: The Edge Bar (95 E 3rd Street between 1 and 2 Avenues), New York City

SOCIABILITY: Drinks and Games–billiards and darts!

We hope to see you there!

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San Francisco’s Successful Freeway Replacement Story

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

In the 15 months since it opened, San Francisco’s Octavia Boulevard has been hailed as a model for other cities. It has been honored at the local and national level, including an award last month from the American Planning Association.

But here’s the real measure of success: The thoroughfare that replaced the elevated Central [...]

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Where the Sidewalk Ends: PPS in Dubai

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS staff members Fred Kent, Cynthia Nikitin and Ethan Kent traveled to Dubai to train a group of the city’s leading real estate developers in Placemaking.  The largest city in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has experienced explosive growth in recent years, emerging as the region’s financial and cultural capital. Ethan explores the transportation situation [...]

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PPS Client Wins Grand Award

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 4, 2007 | Add Comment

Congratulations to the San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save Our Streets, co-recipient of the 2006 Grand Award, given by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco.

The Coalition of neighborhood activists successfully transformed a dangerous 6-lane arterial into a traffic-calmed street with wide medians, safe pedestrian crossings, and bike lanes. PPS worked with the Coalition to [...]

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Making Healthier Neighborhoods in Brooklyn

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 28, 2006 | Add Comment

At Brooklyn Bounty’s forum “Farms, Food and Healthy Communities,” supporters of farmers’ markets in low-income neighborhoods of Brooklyn met to discuss the challenges they face in providing access to fresh, healthy foods, building relationships between farmers and consumers, and creating farmers’ markets that function as community meeting places.

The forum was part of a year-long [...]

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Holiday Markets a Boon for Downtowns

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

Outdoor holiday markets are a boon for artisans who sell their wares, as well as for the downtowns that host the markets.  Organizers of holiday fairs in cities around the country have seen them grow in recent years. “They’re just sort of being rediscovered as a no-brainer for downtowns,” says Ethan Kent, vice president of [...]

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