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Shovel Ready!

By joshkent on Mar 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama will put a shovel in the ground of the White House lawn. Mrs. Obama, like many home gardeners, is celebrating this first day of Spring by getting her home garden ready for the season, and she promises that the garden will be maintained by the entire First Family, [...]

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Places in the News: February 9, 2009

By Brian Geraghty on Feb 9, 2009 | 1 Comment

The latest in urban planning, placemaking and citizen action:

California study identifies key to safe cities and safe roads. [New Urban News] NY Times says that markets are great for the economy! [New York Times] Arizona is set to close five state parks in order to cut spending. [Arizona [...]
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Finding Comfort in a Flea Market

By kwilliams on Feb 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

Normally a shopping review wouldn’t make it onto the Making Places Blog, but today’s NY Times review of the Brooklyn Flea merits a post. Naturally, the review focuses on this relatively new flea market’s vintage jewelry and ubiquitous graphic tees, but the real heart of the [...]

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Buffalo’s Broadway Market

By Robin Lester on Jan 27, 2009 | Add Comment

The Broadway Market, an historic indoor market that once served as a primary destination for shopping, now sits nearly empty for most of the year. It’s easy to see why. Surrounded by urban prairie and one of the highest crime rates in the country, a visit to the market is not necessarily an [...]

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7th International Public Markets Conference

By Robin Lester on Jan 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

PPS presents its 7th International Public Markets Conference on April 24-26, 2009, in San Francisco.

The 7th International Public Market Conference will set a new direction for the vital role markets play in transforming local economies and communities. First class speakers from the Bay Area, the US, and around the world will be on [...]

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Winter Cities: Happy December in Ljubljana, Slovenia

By Ethan Kent on Jan 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

Temperatures average below freezing during the darkest month of the year in Slovenia.  However, the country’s public spaces are overflowing thanks to a government program called “Happy December,” designed to infuse life into downtowns.

Several concerts take place each day in [...]

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GREAT PUBLIC SPACES: Arts Centre (Christchurch, New Zealand)

By Brian Geraghty on Dec 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
The Gothic architecture provides a beautiful backdrop for the vendors at the Arts Centre

What: An arts district rich in Gothic architecture featuring theaters, cinemas, galleries, crafts shops, cafes and weekend markets.

Why it Works:

The Centre is a vibrant venue for a huge range of New Zealand made art and crafts, shopping, [...]

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Food and Fitness Offers Free NYC Tour and Dinner!

By Robin Lester on Oct 13, 2008 | 1 Comment

 

The NYC Food and Fitness Partnership is running some interesting bus tours of community gardens, parks, playgrounds, trails, and greenways In Harlem, the South Bronx and Brooklyn on Saturday, October 18. There’ll be a tasty meal at the end on Randall’s Island and the whole thing is free! RSVP at Continue Reading

A Market Move, 28 Years in the Making

By Robin Lester on Sep 30, 2008 | Add Comment

In 1980, PPS worked with the town of Madison, New Jersey on a strategy to improve their Farmer’s Market. As part of the plan, PPS recommended the borough move its market downtown, claiming that it would thrive at the new location if properly managed.

On September 25, 2008, the market moved from its regular home [...]

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U.S. Presidential Candidates Ignoring Urban Issues

By mkodransky@pps.org on Apr 3, 2008 | 1 Comment



Despite the large number of Americans now living in cities, urban issues have been astonishingly absent from the U.S. presidential debates. PPS did a spoof article for Faking Places, the annual April Fool’s Newsletter, in which Hillary, McCain and Obama make promises for more livable [...]

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Street Vending in Jamaica

By mkodransky@pps.org on Mar 21, 2008 | Add Comment

“Urban planner and lecturer at the University of Technology, Earl Bailey, says the chaos being created by vendors on the streets could be lessened if market areas were designed with pedestrian traffic more in mind, rather than motor vehicular.

‘The reason why street vending is such a bad thing is because we are planning [...]

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The Great Neighborhood Book Voted in the Top 10 Planning Books for 2007 by Planetizen

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 30, 2008 | Add Comment

Planetizen has named PPS/Jay Walljasper’s The Great Neighborhood Book as one of its top 10 planing books of 2007.  http://www.planetizen.com/books/2008
Also, Urban Land magazine recently reviewed The Great Neighborhood Book in the November/December 2007 issue. Click here to read the review.
The Great Neighborhood Book also received an honorable mention on [...]

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