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Chinese Government Encourages More Bicycles, Fewer Cars

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

“Having spent the past decade pursuing a transport policy of four wheels rich, two wheels poor, the Chinese government has suddenly rediscovered the environmental and health benefits of the bicycle.

The construction ministry announced on Thursday that any bike lanes that have been narrowed or destroyed to make way for cars in recent years must [...]

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New Campaign to Find UK’s ‘Most Depressing’ Public Building

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

“A new campaign to highlight the impact of bad design on people and the places where we live has been launched by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

CABE believes that bad design is not just about aesthetics: it is about buildings and spaces that don’t work, can’t be maintained, and waste money [...]

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Group Calls for Major Changes in Atlantic Yards Plan, Brooklyn

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

The Municipal Art Society called yesterday for significant changes to the proposed Atlantic Yards project near Downtown Brooklyn, saying that the current plan would overwhelm the surrounding neighborhoods and burden the area with more traffic.

Members of MAS, an association of architects, designers and planners founded in 1893, leveled the criticisms during a presentation [...]

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Chicago’s Proposal for 500-mile Network of Bike Paths

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 15, 2006 | 1 Comment

“Chicago is set to unveil new plans for becoming a bicyclist’s haven. And this time, it means business.

The new Bike 2015 Plan wastes little time on breezy rides in the park. Instead, the city’s Department of Transportation is bent on getting people to bike to work, to school, to stores and to mass [...]

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City Repair Project: Creating Community Gathering Places

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

City Repair Project is a nonprofit group that aims to tackle the isolation people experience in the world by creating gathering spaces in the community. Or as its tag line says, “transforming space into place.”

The group helps mobilize people to create whimsical and functional projects in their neighborhoods: everything from benches and painted [...]

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Reusing Historic Buildings

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

“The idea of reusing historic buildings is now so ingrained in our culture that it is hard to imagine that only a few decades ago it was a radical concept. Now we see old structures as heritage, as potential money-spinners, as ciphers for authenticity. The British countryside is littered with arts centres in old mills and [...]

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Boston’s City Hall Plaza Now Features a Concrete Slab

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 12, 2006 | 2 Comments

For decades, the fountain in City Hall Plaza has been a maintenance nightmare, with incessant leaks and broken filters and motors.  City officials have found a new solution to the problem: pave it over.

The fountain is now covered by a concrete slab the size of a baseball infield. While some see the possibility for [...]

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How a Park Changed a Chicago Neighborhood

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2006 | 1 Comment

“Millennium Park, the $475 million modernist playground that opened at the edge of Lake Michigan here two years ago, has quickly become one of the city’s leading tourist attractions. What is less known, however, is that the 24.6-acre park…has had a transforming effect on the surrounding neighborhood.

In the late 1990′s, the area, known as [...]

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McDonald’s Plans to Expand Drive-throughs in China

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 7, 2006 | Add Comment

“Fast food giant McDonald’s Corp. said Tuesday that more than half its future expansion in China will involve drive-through restaurants, taking advantage of the country’s soaring car ownership and growing taste for Western lifestyles.”

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Filming Broadway, Block by Block

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 7, 2006 | Add Comment

Nearly 400 filmmakers, amateurs and professionals, participated in a one-day documentary project to film every block of Broadway in New York City for one hour.

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Security Concerns Pollute Washington’s Architectural Atmosphere

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 7, 2006 | Add Comment

While concerns for the physical safety of people and buildings in Washington DC are understandable, our responses — defined strictly in terms of physical measures designed to protect Washington’s buildings and the people in them — are vastly out of proportion.   It is almost impossible to overstate the damage being done to the beauty and [...]

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Faux Suburban Downtowns Challenge Traditional City Centers

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

The popularity of mixed-use suburban town centers is threatening the viability of older, traditional downtowns. While many tout their urban-style amenities, the suburban centers often lack transit and — sometimes — even sidewalks.

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