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Architecture Critics Dissected

By stsay@pps.org on May 18, 2006 | Add Comment

A panel of architecture critics discusses the meaning of activist criticism and whether it still has a meaningful role.

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‘Skinny Streets’ Movement Winning Wider Acceptance

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

“If you think the highest and best use of a street is to move as many cars as fast as possible, shrinking the pavement probably seems counterintuitive, if not downright loony.

But it’s starting to happen here and there, in Madison, Milwaukee, suburban Green Bay and neo-traditional subdivisions around the country. Hooray for the “skinny [...]

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Farmers Market Offers Valet Parking for Bikes

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

In an effort to get folks out of their cars and onto their bikes, city officials and cycling clubs are sponsoring a bike valet for the Farmer’s Market in San Luis Obispo, CA.

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Architects Are a Lagging Indicator for Sustainable Design

By ksalay@pps.org on May 17, 2006 | 2 Comments

“Although architecture schools are adding courses on how to design green buildings, the consensus is that more needs to be done. Indeed, the notion of sustainable design – balancing architecture’s emphasis on style and structure with the creation of buildings that protect the environment, human health and save resources – presents a challenge.”

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Guerrilla Gardeners Brighten London Under Cover of Dark

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

Guerrilla gardeners are going out at night to covertly plant colorful plants on public land in Central London.

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Parking Squat in Park Slope, Brooklyn

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

A group of livable streets advocates recently staged a “parking squat” in Park Slope, Brooklyn to draw attention to city policies that devote an unreasonable amount of public space to automobiles instead of people.

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Markets Important to Local Economies

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

Roberta Brandes Gratz, urban critic and PPS board member, comments on the economic importance of flea markets:

“Flea markets are a hands-on eBay,” says Gratz. “They’re important to our economy, even though they probably don’t show up anywhere. They’re a very useful form of recycling and a necessary source of affordably priced stuff.”

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Roberta Brandes Gratz on Flea Markets

By stsay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

“Flea markets are a hands-on eBay,” says Gratz. “They’re important to our economy, even though they probably don’t show up anywhere. They’re a very useful form of recycling and a necessary source of affordably priced stuff.”

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Bicycle is King of the Road as Gas Costs Rise

By ksalay@pps.org on May 12, 2006 | Add Comment

Cycling advocates acknowledge that progress with forming policies that support and adequately fund biking may be slow at the national level, but many see a wave of action swelling up from below – at the city level, where exasperated mayors are connecting the dots.

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Developer Defends Atlantic Yards, Saying Towers Won’t Corrupt the Feel of Brooklyn

By ksalay@pps.org on May 12, 2006 | Add Comment

Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, said the new design is “still way too big, and does not change the fact of 16 skyscrapers slammed on top of and next to low-rise, historic neighborhoods.”

Frank Gehry, the project’s architect, and Laurie Olin, its landscape designer, emphasized details that they said would harmonize [...]

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Inmates and Community Gardeners Unite to Feed Philly’s Hungry

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

An unlikely partnership between community gardeners and local prison inmates will help feed the over one fifth of Philadelphia residents living below the poverty line.

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Remembering Jane Jacobs: The Life and Times of a Local Luminary

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

“Jane Jacobs didn’t trust urban planners. She once told me that planners would call her all the time and tell her what great work they were doing in her name. Then she would find out that they were following the same old pattern she was opposed to.”

Urban Planner Thomas G. Lunke reflects on the [...]

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