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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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WHO Says Cars Biggest Killer of Young

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 20, 2007 | Add Comment

The World Health Organization announced that car crashes are the leading cause of death worldwide for people between 10 and 24, adding that most such fatalities occur in developing countries with poor road safety conditions.

“The lack of safety on our roads has become an important obstacle to health and development,” said WHO’s director-general, [...]

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New Thinking About Bicycles: ‘Complete Streets’

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

Louisville has adopted a “complete streets” policy which makes the provision of sidewalks, bike lanes and bus stops mandatory. Neal Peirce discusses the plan in his column, and offers some international examples.

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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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Designers Rethink National Mall

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 16, 2007 | Add Comment

“Increased pressure to find land for museums and memorials on the cramped National Mall could spur new ideas about the future development of the nation’s capital.

New additions approved for Washington’s monumental core in recent years – from the World War II Memorial in 2000 to the future Smithsonian black history museum and a [...]

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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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Rubble From Fire Station to Help Build Park in Missoula, MT

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 10, 2007 | Add Comment

As the old Missoula Fire Station No. 2 is torn down to make way for a bigger one, many are hopeful that some of the building will be salvaged for reuse. Tim Skufca, who is heading the Rose Park Neighborhood Council’s efforts to save some of the old building, hopes they’ll be able to [...]

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In Success of ‘Smart Growth,’ New Jersey Town Feels Strain

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 10, 2007 | Add Comment

“The neighborhoods here seem plucked from an urban planner’s catalog: trimmed lawns, picket fences and freshly minted homes. Shopping is an easy stroll away on the wide sidewalks. A greenbelt wraps the town like a bow.

But there is growing frustration with the very thing that attracted thousands of families here in the first place: [...]

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Placemaking on an NYC Subway Car

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 10, 2007 | Add Comment

Interior decorators hijacked an F train yesterday morning, transforming Car 5929 into a cozy living room with curtains, flowers, throw pillows and rugs.

Image (c) New York Post

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Urban Beaches Open in Mexico City

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 4, 2007 | Add Comment

Newly opened urban beaches in Mexico City are being welcomed by the city’s millions of residents who have never seen a beach.

The plan has been met with criticism from the city’s upperclass, who tend to vacation on Mexico’s coastal resort cities, but many of the city’s poor residents can not afford travel, and [...]

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Robert Moses Reconsidered: Blight is in the Eye of the Beholder

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 3, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS Board Member Roberta Brandes Gratz reminds us what was lost when Robert Moses deemed areas ‘slums’ and tore them down in this piece from City Limits.

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