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PPS responds to New York Times op-ed on Jane Jacobs

By jay@odemagazine.com on May 2, 2006 | 4 Comments

Jane Jacobs’ ideas about how to create great cities are more popular and important than ever. Her death last week at age 89 has drawn even more attention to her wisdom that basic observation of what a makes neighborhoods work is the best guide to good urban planning, rather than the grandiose but often mistaken [...]

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Opening on Broadway Soon: New York City’s Version of the Spanish Steps

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

The new TKTS Booth in Father Duffy Square will be topped with a glass staircase with room for over 1,000 to sit and watch the spectacle of Times Square.

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PPS responds to New York Times op-ed on Jane Jacobs

By bfried@pps.org on May 2, 2006 | Add Comment

Jane Jacobs’ ideas about how to create great cities are more popular and important than ever. Her death last week at age 89 has drawn even more attention to her wisdom that basic observation of what a makes neighborhoods work is the best guide to good urban planning, rather than the grandiose but often mistaken [...]

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How Bicycling Can Help Save the World

By ksalay@pps.org on May 2, 2006 | 3 Comments

With 50 percent of their daily car trips no longer than three miles, Americans could easily make half of them on foot or on bikes, which would save the nation 24 billion gallons of gas a year, proportionally cut tailpipe emissions, and reduce overweight and obesity rates, especially among kids, said Missoula-based Adventure Cycling director [...]

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Godmother of the American City

By ksalay@pps.org on May 1, 2006 | 3 Comments

In memory of Jane Jacobs, one of urban planning’s most influential critics, Metropolis Magazine reprints James Howard Kunstler’s interview with her, from September 2000.

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How Jane Jacobs Challenged ‘Olympian’ Planners

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

Jane Jacobs had no college degree in architecture or urban planning. How did she defiantly challenge influential figures such as urban-renewal “czar” Robert Moses?

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Jane Jacobs, Renowned Urban Activist, Dies at 89

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 25, 2006 | Add Comment

Jane Jacobs, the writer and thinker who brought penetrating eyes and ingenious insight to the sidewalk ballet of her own Greenwich Village street and came up with a book that challenged and changed the way people view cities, died today in Toronto, where she lived. She was 89.

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The Problem with Most High-rises is How Well they Reach the Street

By ngrossman@pps.org on Apr 25, 2006 | Add Comment

“Tall buildings affect cities in two different ways that have almost nothing to do with each other. One is as sculptural objects framed in the sky, where their impact is artistic or symbolic. The other is where the buildings meet the ground and create either pleasant or oppressive spaces where people walk and congregate. Architects [...]

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Immigration rallies remind importance of public spaces

By stsay@pps.org on Apr 24, 2006 | Add Comment

Blair Kamin looks into the importance of public spaces in light of all the immigration rallies occuring across the country.

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Immigration Rallies Remind Us Why Public Spaces Are Vital

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 24, 2006 | Add Comment

Recent demonstrations and immigration rallies have proved that public spaces are very much alive.

“These are the nation’s civic squares. This is a way of expressing things on a massive leve,” said Fred Kent, president of the Project for Public Spaces.

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“Transportation is All About Communities”

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 24, 2006 | Add Comment

“Transportation affects almost every element on the town warrant, from the cost of our town roads, trails and sidewalks to the human services that help our seniors and shut-ins get to religious services and medical appointments.”

NH DOT has created a transportation plan that the Community Advisory Committee is presenting in town meetings across the [...]

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The Flaneur is Alive and Sauntering in the Modern Metropolis

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

The art of the flaneur – wandering aimlessly around the city, observing its daily rhythms – has been revived by photobloggers.

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