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Hibernation Discouraged: Cities Need Life on Their Streets

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 15, 2008 | Add Comment

Jay Walljasper discusses the need for cities to have life on their streets – even in the most frigid days (and nights) of winter.

“Plunging temperatures don’t necessarily sentence us to months of house arrest. People around the world from Copenhagen to New York are figuring out how to keep things lively [...]

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The Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medal Nomination Process is Now Open

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 11, 2008 | Add Comment

The Rockefeller Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal on its website through February 1, 2008. The 2008 Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medals will recognize two living individuals whose creative vision for the urban environment has significantly contributed to the vibrancy and variety of New York City.

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How Smart Towns Fight Dark Winter

By rdahl@pps.org on Dec 31, 2007 | Add Comment

Do plunging temperatures, gray skies and the year’s shortest days have to force us to huddle indoors? When we flick on the television, do we have to cringe at the weathermen’s dire warnings of monster storms on the way?

Not at all, argues Jay Walljasper, a writer on world cities, in a Christmas-season [...]

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Innovative Moves Underway at Dapper Market

By rdahl@pps.org on Dec 17, 2007 | Add Comment

The 97 year old Dapper Market in Amsterdam was voted 2007 best market of the year in Holland. With 250 stalls operating 6 days a week from 9am to 5pm, Dapper Market enjoys 15,000 visitors a day which is a total of 4.6 million a year.

In a recent innovative move, an environmentally-friendly water [...]

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Discussion on Farmers Markets Impacts

By rdahl@pps.org on Dec 6, 2007 | Add Comment

Discussion of environmental, economic, and taste benefits from buying locally produced food at farmer’s markets.

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Kaiser Permanente’s Preston Maring, MD, Featured on ABC News Discussing Farmers’ Markets

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 28, 2007 | Add Comment

Kaiser Permanente’s own Preston Maring, MD, shared his Thanksgiving menu – developed using organic, locally sourced produce – on a live ABC News broadcast Wednesday morning.

Dr. Maring, who founded Kaiser Permanente’s farmers’ markets program in 2003, talked about why good food is such a key ingredient in the recipe for healthy living. Dr. Maring [...]

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Markets as Both Feast and Spectacle

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 19, 2007 | Add Comment

Jonathan Player for the New York Times (London); Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images (Tokyo)

FROM LEFT Vegetables at Borough Market in London, open to the public on Friday and Saturday; tuna for auction at the Tsukiji market in Tokyo; stollen for sale at the traditional Christmas market in Dresden, Germany.

By Mimi [...]

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Management RFP for Historic Charleston City Market

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 15, 2007 | Add Comment

The City of Charleston, South Carolina is seeking firms or teams to provide full-service property management of the City Market, including marketing, leasing and operation, and to develop a strategic vision for the Charleston City Market.

Included within the City Market is approximately 40,000 sq. ft. of retail space, market stalls, and public [...]

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Supermarkets Could Encourage Farmer’s Markets

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Discussion surrounding possibilities for farmers markets to occupy supermarket parking lots one day a week.

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Farmers’ Market Traffic Boosts Surrounding Businesses

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 30, 2007 | Add Comment

In an effort to attract more traffic to downtown businesses, one New Jersey downtown partnership planned for a diverse farmer’s market in a plaza, just off of the city’s main traffic artery. Surveys show that 80 percent of the 1,000 weekly market customers, also visited local businesses while at the farmers’ market.

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PPS Grantee, the Farmers Markets Federation of New York, Receives $125,000 Grant to Promote EBT (food stamps) at Upstate Farmers Markets

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 23, 2007 | Add Comment

The Farmers Market Federation of New York, a 2006 PPS grantee, received a $125,000 grant from the Humpty Dumpty Institute to encourage Electronic Benefit Transfer (food stamp) recipients in upstate New York to use their benefits at their local farmers markets. The pilot program hopes to expand the use of EBT cards at 43 [...]

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USA Today lists City Seed’s Wooster Square Farmers Market, a 2007 PPS market grantee, as one of the Top Ten Markets for Cultivating Organic Growers

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 23, 2007 | Add Comment

When USA Today asked Alice Waters, co-owner of the famed restaurant Chez Panisse, to compile a list of some of the country’s best farmers markets she made sure to include PPS grantee City Seed, located in New Haven, CT.

One of only two East Coast markets cited, the City Seed Wooster [...]

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