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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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Want Less Traffic? Price Your Parking Right

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

UCLA Professor Donald Shoup demonstrates that by pricing curb parking too low, cities are contributing to traffic and pollution and losing out on revenue.

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Americans for Libraries Council Announces First Annual Voices for America’s Libraries Awards

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

The Americans for Libraries Council will hold the first annual Voices for America’s Libraries Awards at a special reception at the Grolier Club in New York City on Friday, March 30th. This year’s awardees are four prominent individuals who through their work have shown a deep commitment to supporting community access to literature and [...]

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Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 29, 2007 | Add Comment

On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered throughout the city, an ambitious program to cut traffic, reduce pollution, improve parking and enhance the city’s image as a greener, quieter, more relaxed place.

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Richard Rogers Wins 2007 Pritzker

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 29, 2007 | Add Comment

“Three decades after his Pompidou Center in Paris turned the architecture world upside down and brought him global fame, the British architect Richard Rogers has been named the 2007 winner of the Pritzker Prize, the profession’s highest honor.”

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Time to Re-evaluate Seattle’s Central Library

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 28, 2007 | Add Comment

“Three years after the Seattle Central Library opened to starbursts of praise, including mine, I am trying to understand why, when I need to spend a working day at a library, I retreat to the Bellevue Regional instead of Seattle’s downtown flagship,” writes Lawrence Cheek of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

“It’s time for a reconsideration — [...]

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Louisville Mayor Endorses “Complete Streets” Design Guidelines

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 13, 2007 | Add Comment

“For decades, we in Louisville — and cities around the nation — have built roads only for vehicles,” said Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson in endorsement of its proposed “Complete Streets” design guidelines, which also focus on sidewalks, bike lanes and curbs easy for wheelchairs and baby-strollers, confident the new policy will rectify that old [...]

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Former Baton Rouge Wal-Mart Will Become 11-acre Mixed-use Village

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 13, 2007 | Add Comment

Commercial Properties, a for-profit unit of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, will redevelop a former Wal-Mart shopping center as pedestrian-friendly Acadian Village, offering 130,000 square feet of retail space topped by some 30 rental townhouses and including other smart-growth features, such as an open plaza, landscaped parking lot and public transportation pavilion.

”Given the residential [...]

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Paris Mayor Reveals Plan to Reduce Traffic By 40%

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 12, 2007 | Add Comment

Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe has unveiled his plans to cut traffic in the capital by 40%. The plans, which also aim to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by 60%, have taken two years to come to fruition, and represent what Delanoe hopes will become his legacy for the capital.

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Great Designers, Bad Buildings?

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 12, 2007 | Add Comment

Architectural critic John King finds ‘starchitects’ to be great designers, but troubling to cities, saying, “What bothers me is the detached unreality of a world where architecture is reduced to a chic parlor game. At some point the stars aren’t designing for the site or the client. They want to pull a new breed [...]

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Recognizing Jan Gehl’s Spaces Between Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 7, 2007 | 1 Comment

While most consider the building as the most important element of architecture, Jan Gehl’s works are appreciated by millions for emphasising what isn’t there.

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Minnesota Metropolitan Council’s Guide for Transit-Oriented Development

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 6, 2007 | Add Comment

The Council’s Guide for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) highlights key ideas about TOD and shows how these ideas have been put to work within the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

TOD is moderate to higher-density development located within easy walking distance of a major transit stop, generally with a mix of residential, employment and shopping opportunities [...]

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