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The Art of Placemaking: A Conversation with Fred Kent

By ksalay@pps.org on Aug 9, 2006 | Add Comment

An interview with Fred Kent, President and founder of PPS, on what it means to create a great place and why the concept of Placemaking has gone international.

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Debate Rages on Housing at Planned Brooklyn Park

By Ethan Kent on Jul 23, 2006 | Add Comment

Sunday’s NY Times article cited PPS’s opposition to the existing plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park.  Our critique can be found here: http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=933

An essay by PPS president  Fred Kent on the current Downtown Brooklyn Development efforts including the Waterfront: http://www.pps.org/info/ppsnews/brooklyn_essay

Another recent article about this issue heavily quoting Fred Kent:  http://www2.pps.org/updates/one-entry?entry_id=6531

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An Open Letter to Frank Gehry

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 26, 2006 | 3 Comments

“What’s wrong with the buildings Frank Gehry wants to put in my neighborhood?” asks Jonathan Lethem, a writer who lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

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Brooklyn’s Trojan Horse

By kziegenfuss@pps.org on Jun 26, 2006 | Add Comment

Brooklyn author Jonathan Letham writes to Frank Gehry, voicing his opposition to his partnership with Bruce Ratner on the Atlantic Yards stadium project proposed at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, in Brooklyn.

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Watch Fred Kent’s PowerPoint Presentation

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 26, 2006 | 3 Comments

Watch Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces, give his presentation “Creating a Sense of Place”, given in San Diego on March 14, 2006

This presentation and other streaming video programs are available online on UCSD-TV’s web site at www.ucsd.tv.

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Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

Please join the Center for the Living City in celebrating the life of Jane Jacobs on Wednesday, June 28, from 5:00 – 7:00, Washington Square Park, in front of the Arch, the site of her first victory over Robert Moses.

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How a Park Changed a Chicago Neighborhood

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2006 | 1 Comment

“Millennium Park, the $475 million modernist playground that opened at the edge of Lake Michigan here two years ago, has quickly become one of the city’s leading tourist attractions. What is less known, however, is that the 24.6-acre park…has had a transforming effect on the surrounding neighborhood.

In the late 1990′s, the area, known as [...]

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Faux Suburban Downtowns Challenge Traditional City Centers

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 5, 2006 | Add Comment

The popularity of mixed-use suburban town centers is threatening the viability of older, traditional downtowns. While many tout their urban-style amenities, the suburban centers often lack transit and — sometimes — even sidewalks.

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A Mixed-use, Walkable Development Arrives In Atlanta

By ksalay@pps.org on May 30, 2006 | Add Comment

The success of Atlantic Station, a large scale mixed-use urban development, proves the need for a more pedestrian friendly environment in auto-dominated Atlanta.

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NYC Streets Renaissance Exhibit Moves to Times Square

By ksalay@pps.org on May 19, 2006 | Add Comment

The NYC Streets Renaissance exhibit, Livable Streets: A New Vision for New York, has moved from the Municipal Arts Society to the lobby of 4 Times Square, the Conde Nast Building.

The exhibit will focus on a vision for Broadway as a grand boulevard containing more than 20 unique destinations, with Times Square as the [...]

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Developer Defends Atlantic Yards, Saying Towers Won’t Corrupt the Feel of Brooklyn

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

Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, said the new design is “still way too big, and does not change the fact of 16 skyscrapers slammed on top of and next to low-rise, historic neighborhoods.”

Frank Gehry, the project’s architect, and Laurie Olin, its landscape designer, emphasized details that they said would harmonize [...]

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Remembering Jane Jacobs: The Life and Times of a Local Luminary

By ksalay@pps.org on May 5, 2006 | Add Comment

“Jane Jacobs didn’t trust urban planners. She once told me that planners would call her all the time and tell her what great work they were doing in her name. Then she would find out that they were following the same old pattern she was opposed to.”

Urban Planner Thomas G. Lunke reflects on the [...]

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