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Debate Rages on Housing at Planned Brooklyn Park

By Ethan Kent on Jul 23, 2006 | Add Comment

Sunday’s NY Times article cited PPS’s opposition to the existing plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park.  Our critique can be found here: http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=933

An essay by PPS president  Fred Kent on the current Downtown Brooklyn Development efforts including the Waterfront: http://www.pps.org/info/ppsnews/brooklyn_essay

Another recent article about this issue heavily quoting Fred Kent:  http://www2.pps.org/updates/one-entry?entry_id=6531

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The Charm of Brick Streets

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 21, 2006 | 4 Comments

Chicago area communities restore brick streets for aesthetics and traffic-calming.

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On Reading Jane Jacobs…Finally

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 21, 2006 | Add Comment

A planner who quoted Jane Jacobs for years finally discovers what the author really said in her classic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Crowd Gathers to Protest Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards Plan

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 17, 2006 | Add Comment

In the largest public demonstration so far by opponents of the Atlantic Yards project planned near Downtown Brooklyn, a crowd that may have exceeded 2,000 gathered at Grand Army Plaza yesterday in a rally condemning the project’s scale and what many called inadequate public comment.

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Changing Tracks: Rail Transit and Planning

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 17, 2006 | Add Comment

Trains have played a large role in shaping America’s past, and will have a big impact on her future as rail transit continues to change the way we think about urban growth.

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Gas Guzzlers Could Pay £25 to Enter London

By jmichaelson@pps.org on Jul 17, 2006 | Add Comment

Mayor Ken Livingston is proposing raising the city’s congestion charge for SUVs to £25, while providing discounts for low-emissions vehicles.

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Stalling Sprawl: CT Must Take Leadership Role In Shaping Development

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 14, 2006 | Add Comment

Two leaders of the smart growth movement, former Maryland Gov. Perris Glendening and former New Jersey Gov. and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, highlight some of the lessons learned from other states.

“Remember, if you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.”

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Injecting Life into Barren Schoolyards

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 14, 2006 | Add Comment

An innovative program in Denver, CO, has transformed neglected schoolyards into community centers.

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Ignoring Rail Only Leads to Massive Freeway Projects

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

By  ignoring  rail,  federal and state plans for building America’s transportation infrastructure through private investments will only serve to promote massive freeway projects, writes Neil Peirce.

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Death of an Urban Farm

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 6, 2006 | Add Comment

When authorities closed down the South Central garden in Los Angeles, the community lost more than an urban farm writes LA Times columnist Al Martinez.

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New Schools, Better Neighborhoods

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 5, 2006 | Add Comment

Former California State Architect Steven Castellanos outlines the changes that would be required to change how schools are designed and built if they are to become centers of communities.

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Two Views on Trends in Public and Academic Libraries

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

ArchNews contributer Kenneth Caldwell interviews two architects and discusses library design trends, and the renewed roles that all kinds of libraries have to play in our civic life.

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