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Planning a community without losing the community

By keenan on Mar 6, 2008 | Add Comment

All around the country residents of communities large and small are complaining about haphazard development, ugly sprawl and the loss of a “sense of community” that makes the place they live special.

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Pirates takeover of Seabus

By keenan on Mar 6, 2008 | Add Comment

Passengers commuting to and from the North Shore aboard the SeaBus last Friday found themselves surrounded by a horde of pirates who congregated for an ocean-faring party in the middle of Burrard Inlet.

Over 300 people dressed as a variety of pirates stormed the Waterfront terminal in front of chuckling commuters and TransLink employees. [...]

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Downtowns Try to Survive

By keenan on Mar 6, 2008 | Add Comment

At a time when communities across America have seen their downtowns diminished or destroyed by the rise of malls and superstores, traditional downtowns in the Hudson Valley still exist in unusual numbers. If their businesses don’t exactly thrive, for now at least they’re making it.

The reasons are debatable.

It [...]

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Jeddah to Have Parks and Community Center

By keenan on Mar 6, 2008 | Add Comment

A new center devoted to the development of parks is currently being established under the supervision of the Jeddah Municipality at the Azizyah district, according to a municipality official.

The first of its kind in the Kingdom, the Parks and Community Center aims to serve society in the field of urban parks development through [...]

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Downtown Ithaca is the ‘Community Hub’

By keenan on Mar 6, 2008 | Add Comment

There’s something special about having an authentic, real center of your community: a Main Street, a plaza or piazza, a town square or village four corners. I mean a real community center, a place like Broadway in Saratoga Springs, Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall or Santa Fe’s downtown plaza. All of these [...]

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Searching for the Soul of Times Square

By keenan on Mar 6, 2008 | Add Comment

You know that scene in the movie I Am Legend where Will Smith (playing the last man on Earth) and his German shepherd (playing the world’s last good dog) go deer hunting in a depopulated Times Square? Well, to my urbanist-geek way of thinking, the most impressive aspect of this masterpiece of computer-generated cityscape is [...]

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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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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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Discriminatory by Design

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 14, 2008 | Add Comment

New York City‘s streets and intersections expose elderly pedestrians to unacceptable risks. As a result, many senior citizens are not as mobile as they want to be, do not get the physical activity they need to maximize their health, and are often the victims of crashes with motor vehicles.

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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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“New urban center” at Old Med Campus

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 2, 2008 | Add Comment

A movie theater, hotel and market all are part of the plan for the redevelopment of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center site at Colorado Boulevard and East Ninth Avenue.

The plan, to be unveiled next week, includes up to 1,200 residential units, 150,000 square feet of retail space and about 500,000 square feet [...]

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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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