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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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A Simple Path to Strong Neighborhoods

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 14, 2007 | Add Comment

A Simple Path to Strong Neighborhoods

Author Jay Walljasper Shows How Small Efforts Build Community

Dave Hage of the Star Tribune has a Q&A session with Jay Walljasper, author of the The Great Neighborhood Book, about how strong neighborhoods are the building blocks of great cities and a healthy society.

Q. [...]

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KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play announces Playful City USA

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 13, 2007 | Add Comment

(Washington, DC) — The KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play today announced the 31 founding members of the Playful City USA initiative.  Playful City USA is a national recognition program that honors cities and towns across the nation for a vision, plan and commitment to creating an agenda for play. Cities were recognized based on a [...]

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Jan Gehl to Help NYC Create More Livable Streets

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

Jan Gehl, an urban planner known for promoting “life between buildings,” begins work in New York City with both the Department of Transportation and the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign. Gehl helps cities with traffic calming and creating more livable streets.

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Developing Community, Not Just Buildings

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

Developer Jonathan Rose discusses the importance of community based design. He advocates hollistic planning; grounded in an understanding of community needs like urban sustainability and cultural development.

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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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Designing Places for People to Meet

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

Designers are working to create spaces and situations to encourage and promote interaction in a time where people are living closer together physically, but farther apart socially.  Community cannot be built; what can be built are spaces and situations to draw neighbors together. These spaces come in all forms. Multi-family complexes can center on [...]

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Survey Shows Americans Support Building Communities and Mass Transit

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

The 2007 Growth and Transportation Survey shows that Three-fourths of Americans surveyed believe that developing communities that reduce the need to drive and improving public transportation are both better long-term solutions for reducing traffic congestion than building new roads.

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New Urbanism = Historic Urbanism

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 25, 2007 | Add Comment

In essence new urbanism is really historic urbanism. If you look at how city centers were established pre-1900 you will notice that almost all downtown areas were bustling economic centers with a high level of density. Looking further back in historical times to the towns across Europe you will find this urban model mimics itself [...]

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Public Space Plan Released for Penn Station

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 25, 2007 | Add Comment

The Spitzer administration has released plans for a rebuilt Penn Station, complete with natural light pouring in and a “grand public space” in a new, rezoned business district on Manhattan’s far West Side.
The new plans would also create 7.5 million square feet of mixed use development, including a commercial district that would [...]

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Changing The Faces of San Antonio Parks

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 25, 2007 | Add Comment

The faces of San Antonio’s parks are beginning to change as work has begun on several new greenbelt parks along the city’s major creeks and rivers.  This is big news for the “park-starved” community.  The parks will be along creeks and rivers, many of them connecting – each specifically for hiking, biking and preserving beauty.

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