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Eastern Market in DC Badly Damaged by Fire

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 30, 2007 | Add Comment

The historic Eastern Market, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, was badly damaged by a fire that apparently started in a dumpster.

Most of the southern half of the building was gutted by the fire, and all the vendors in the hall will be temporarily displaced.  Many are already calling for federal funding to [...]

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You Are What You Grow

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 26, 2007 | Add Comment

This article in from the NY Times looks at why a person’s wealth is the most reliable predictor of obesity in America, and what the farm bill has to do with it.

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Public Wants Space, Not Style, Architects Told

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 23, 2007 | Add Comment

Policymakers are ignoring the wishes of local people and exaggerating the importance of “metropolitan” urban design in creating successful public spaces, according to a new report, the Social Value of Public Spaces.

“Most public spaces that people use are local spaces they visit regularly, often quite banal in design, or untidy in their activities [...]

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Farmers’ Market Sets Up on College Campus

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 23, 2007 | Add Comment

A farmers’ market has been invited to set up on campus by the University of the West of England (UWE) in a bid to get students to eat healthily.

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Farmers Markets: A Victim of Their Own Success?

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 19, 2007 | Add Comment

Is progress taking the farmers out of farmers markets?

Are farmers markets an inefficient business model?

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NYC to Bring Supermarkets to Low-income Neighborhoods

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

New York City is eyeing a new target for promoting health among Gotham’s poor: supermarkets.

On Friday, the city’s food policy coordinator, Benjamin Thomases, sat in on a briefing about the nuts and bolts of bringing supermarkets into low-income neighborhoods. “We’re definitely looking at the issues of access to healthy food,” said Thomases, who [...]

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Public Market House in Portland, ME, Proves Markets Bring Life to Cities

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 11, 2007 | Add Comment

The Public Market House in Portland, Me., is an example of how fresh local food and downtown markets promote activity in American cities.

Image (c) Herb Swanson for The New York Times

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Urban Farming: Coming to a City Near You

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 2, 2007 | Add Comment

Propelled by the obesity epidemic and the drive for more sustainable economies, an urban agriculture movement is flowering across the U.S.

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Interview with Fred Kent in Urban Land

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 21, 2007 | Add Comment

This interview with Fred Kent appeared in the February 2007 issue of Urban Land:

“As an internationally known advocate for public spaces, Fred Kent, founder of the New York-based  Project for Public Spaces (PPS), sees cities – and the people who inhabit them – through the measured senses of an urban provocateur.”

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Nine Ways to Transform New York into a City of Great Places

By joshkent on Mar 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Although New York prides itself on its public life, New Yorkers inhabit a public realm that pales beside what it could become. “After working in cities around the world, we’ve developed a rich understanding of public spaces that begs to be put to use back in our home town,” explains PPS President Fred Kent. “New [...]

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Fred Kent on What Makes a Great Waterfront – Radio Interview

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 1, 2007 | Add Comment

Listen to Fred Kent discuss what makes a great waterfront on San Diego’s KPBS.

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Pike Place Market Discontinues CSA Program

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 21, 2007 | Add Comment

The popular Market Basket program at Pike Place Market was in such disarray last summer that some farmers quit and others planned to picket the downtown public market, frustrated over how the program was run.

Still, many were surprised two weeks ago when Pike Place Market council members voted to discontinue the Community Supported [...]

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