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CT Governor Acts To Stop Sprawl

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

CT Governor Jodi Rell issued an executive order creating a state office to control sprawl and promote more sensible and sustainable growth.

The Hartford Courant cheered the move, with some caveats, in this editorial.

PPS Senior Associate Toni Gold also asks whether the move is a meaningful one in her commentary, “Smart Growth [...]

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Cynthia Nikitin on Reclaiming Cities for People: CBC Radio Interview

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

Cynthia Nikitin, Vice President of Project for Public Spaces and Director of the Civic Centers Program, discusses the importance of involving the community in revitalizing cities and neighborhoods, on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Study Shows Cost Savings of Suburbs are an Illusion

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 16, 2006 | Add Comment

“One of the lures of the outer suburbs is more house — maybe even one with a big yard — for less money. But a new study shows that the savings are illusory: The costs of longer commutes are so high that they can outweigh the cheaper mortgage payments.

A study of Washington and 27 [...]

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Buildings Schools in the Right Places

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 16, 2006 | Add Comment

“Where schools are built can have a major impact on the character and growth of a community. With a push from state education officials, communities are consolidating small schools and building new ones near town centers. This is a welcome change.”

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Fashion Show will Stay in Bryant Park for Now

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 13, 2006 | Add Comment

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that while Fashion Week events have outgrown Bryant Park, more time is needed to find another home. The Mayor stepped in and reserved the Park for Fashion Week in February, 2007, rather than allowing a public ice skating rink to remain open throughout the winter months.

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Youths’ Businesses Bloom at Farmers Market

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 10, 2006 | Add Comment

The farmers market in Carlisle (MA) is an example of how markets can become an incubator for creative products and marketing ideas hatched by youths.

Because farmers markets are less bureaucratic and less strictly regulated than other sales venues, they provide an ideal venue for young people to try out their sales and marketing skills.

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Report on NYC Street Vendors

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 5, 2006 | 1 Comment

“The Street Vendor Project released a report that demonstrates that NYC vendors are tax-paying entrepreneurs who, despite their hard work, struggle below the poverty line due to harassment and over-regulation. As everyone knows, some of the biggest businesses in NYC got their start as pushcarts on the Lower East Side. Sadly, those kinds of success stories are virtually unimaginable [...]

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Cycling Safety Initiative at Farmers Market

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 4, 2006 | 3 Comments

A farmers market in Petershead, in the UK, is sponsoring a cycle safety initiative.  Road safety advisors will check bicycles for safety, and will distribute leaflets to kids.

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10 Great U.S. Cities for Cycling

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 2, 2006 | Add Comment

“City biking can be more than bus fumes and potholes; in some metropolitan centers, urban cyclists can enjoy clean bay air, lighted paved routes and even shower stations to rinse off the bike sweat.”

Adventure Cycling Association and Bicycling Magazine give the Washington Post their suggestions on the most bike-friendly cities in the country.

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Plans to Split Hip Tokyo Neighborhood

By ksalay@pps.org on Oct 2, 2006 | Add Comment

In four years, city officials plan to start building an 81-foot-wide thoroughfare that will slice Shimokitazawa, Tokyo’s answer to Greenwich Village, in two.

The road has set off a rare battle for preservation in a country where big construction projects have long been welcomed as progress and used to grease the wheels of politics.

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2007 Rudy Bruner Award – Call for Entries

By ksalay@pps.org on Sep 27, 2006 | Add Comment

CALL FOR ENTRIES

2007 RUDY BRUNER AWARD

About the Rudy Bruner Award:

The Rudy Bruner Award is given to urban places that demonstrate the successful integration of effective process, meaningful values and good design. RBA winners are distinguished by their social, economic and contextual contributions to the urban environment, and often provide innovative solutions [...]

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A Parking Spot Squat in Midtown Manhattan

By ksalay@pps.org on Sep 22, 2006 | 1 Comment

Yesterday members of Transportation Alternatives staged a parking squat – a “quasi-legal reclamation of urban street space in which a metered, curbside parking spaces are transformed into urban parkland complete with sod, benches, trees and human beings.”

These events always evoke strong reactions – as evident in the comments posted to StreetsBlog.

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