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Discovery Green Opens in Downtown Houston to Great Fanfare

By mkodransky@pps.org on Apr 15, 2008 | 2 Comments





Photos Credit: Tom Davis

Thousands of revelers and recreation seekers came out for the opening of downtown Houston’s first park, Discovery Green. The new 12-acre park boasts an interactive water feature, amphitheater, children’s playground, dog run, spacious green lawns, public art works and restaurants. All [...]

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Site on Providence Waterfront Could Draw Crowds Again

By mkodransky@pps.org on Apr 11, 2008 | Add Comment

 


A 2-acre parcel of land for sale on the Providence waterfront, now the site of a former night club called Shooters, could be an extension of the adjacent India Point Park. Residents want the site to be rezoned to prevent condo development, while the Rhode Island DOT [...]

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U.S. Presidential Candidates Ignoring Urban Issues

By mkodransky@pps.org on Apr 3, 2008 | 1 Comment



Despite the large number of Americans now living in cities, urban issues have been astonishingly absent from the U.S. presidential debates. PPS did a spoof article for Faking Places, the annual April Fool’s Newsletter, in which Hillary, McCain and Obama make promises for more livable [...]

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Park to Reconnect City Center with One of the World’s Greatest Waterfronts?

By mkodransky@pps.org on Apr 1, 2008 | 1 Comment

 

The Western Distributor in Sydney wouldn’t be the first urban freeway to be dismantled so a community could access the waterfront. The Embarcadero Freeway in SF was demolished after an earthquake in 1989. The Miller Freeway in NYC has become a successful waterfront park and recreation area. And, tearing down the [...]

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NY1 interviews Fred Kent on plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park

By keenan on Mar 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

Work is underway to clear the way for Brooklyn’s newest waterfront park, which will add acres of green in an area that could use more parkland. So why are some people opposed to the plan? NY1′s Roger Clark has the story from Brooklyn Heights.

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Current Plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park Lack Vision

By mkodransky@pps.org on Mar 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

The New York Times reports on the rising tensions between the community and developers over the plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park.

“For New Yorkers long accustomed to being shut off from miles of waterfront that were abandoned, underused or cut off by highways, lots of green open space on [...]

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Parks and Squares Are An Essential Feature of Urban Infrastructure

By mkodransky@pps.org on Mar 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

“Public space is central to the political and social life of a city. Streets and squares are marketplaces for trade, places for discussion and demonstrations, for formal and informal meetings. Public spaces are democratic in essence: in them citizens have rights, defined only by national laws. They are places in which cities define their character, [...]

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Downtown Houston Park Could Be A Great Place

By keenan on Mar 17, 2008 | Add Comment



(photo courtesy of R. Clayton McKee)

Kids playing around “Mist Tree,” a donated fountain at the new Discovery Green park.

The preview opening of Discovery Green, a 12-acre park across from the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, [...]

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Jeddah to Have Parks and Community Center

By keenan on Mar 6, 2008 | Add Comment

A new center devoted to the development of parks is currently being established under the supervision of the Jeddah Municipality at the Azizyah district, according to a municipality official.

The first of its kind in the Kingdom, the Parks and Community Center aims to serve society in the field of urban parks development through [...]

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PPS In Providence: City told to think and dream big in reinventing plaza

By jpastore@pps.org on Feb 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

As part of a project Providence, RI, PPS lead a workshop of over 130 city officials, business owners, residents and representatives of nonprofit groups about potential improvements to the city’s central plaza, Kennedy Plaza.

“All over the world, people are coming back to these great squares. Once you’ve got a great square, the [...]

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The Great Neighborhood Book Voted in the Top 10 Planning Books for 2007 by Planetizen

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 30, 2008 | Add Comment

Planetizen has named PPS/Jay Walljasper’s The Great Neighborhood Book as one of its top 10 planing books of 2007.  http://www.planetizen.com/books/2008
Also, Urban Land magazine recently reviewed The Great Neighborhood Book in the November/December 2007 issue. Click here to read the review.
The Great Neighborhood Book also received an honorable mention on [...]

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Hibernation Discouraged: Cities Need Life on Their Streets

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 15, 2008 | Add Comment

Jay Walljasper discusses the need for cities to have life on their streets – even in the most frigid days (and nights) of winter.

“Plunging temperatures don’t necessarily sentence us to months of house arrest. People around the world from Copenhagen to New York are figuring out how to keep things lively [...]

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