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Fred Kent Voices Concerns over Proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2006 | 4 Comments

Concerned with the “suburbanization of the city,” Fred Kent is concerned that the new park will become a private backyard for several proposed 20- to 30-story luxury apartment towers.  “Towers in parks is an old idea that was tried and failed in the 50s and 60s, and now it’s coming back, unfortunately,” said Fred.

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Public Space to be Cut in Washington Square Park

By ngrossman@pps.org on May 24, 2006 | Add Comment

Another round of controversy concerning the Parks Department’s redesign of Washington Square Park.

This time, the issue at hand is the amount of plaza space in the center of the park.  The latest lawsuit brought against the plan claims that the new plan will reduce the size of the central plaza (surrounding the fountain) by [...]

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Reclaiming the Heart of the City

By ksalay@pps.org on May 23, 2006 | Add Comment

Urban planning theories are meaningless without citizens involved in their community.

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NYC Streets Renaissance Exhibit Moves to Times Square

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

The NYC Streets Renaissance exhibit, Livable Streets: A New Vision for New York, has moved from the Municipal Arts Society to the lobby of 4 Times Square, the Conde Nast Building.

The exhibit will focus on a vision for Broadway as a grand boulevard containing more than 20 unique destinations, with Times Square as the [...]

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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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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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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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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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PPS in Flint, MI

By stsay@pps.org on Apr 24, 2006 | 2 Comments

PPS to work on city-wide initiative that includes Riverbank Park and Flint Farmers’ Market.

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