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The Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medal Nomination Process is Now Open

By rdahl@pps.org on Jan 11, 2008 | Add Comment

The Rockefeller Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal on its website through February 1, 2008. The 2008 Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medals will recognize two living individuals whose creative vision for the urban environment has significantly contributed to the vibrancy and variety of New York City.

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How Smart Towns Fight Dark Winter

By rdahl@pps.org on Dec 31, 2007 | Add Comment

Do plunging temperatures, gray skies and the year’s shortest days have to force us to huddle indoors? When we flick on the television, do we have to cringe at the weathermen’s dire warnings of monster storms on the way?

Not at all, argues Jay Walljasper, a writer on world cities, in a Christmas-season [...]

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What a `City of Neighborhoods’ Can Learn From a Book About Them

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 29, 2007 | Add Comment

Author of The Great Neighborhood Book Jay Walljasper shows how communities can become cities of great neighbors.

“Blessed with laws, humbled by climate, unburdened by history or destiny, Torontonians remake the world in their small communities, adding yoga, sweat lodge, dim sum or doughnuts to their lives.”

– Deanne Taylor, playwright, in [...]

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A Simple Path to Strong Neighborhoods

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 14, 2007 | Add Comment

A Simple Path to Strong Neighborhoods

Author Jay Walljasper Shows How Small Efforts Build Community

Dave Hage of the Star Tribune has a Q&A session with Jay Walljasper, author of the The Great Neighborhood Book, about how strong neighborhoods are the building blocks of great cities and a healthy society.

Q. [...]

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KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play announces Playful City USA

By rdahl@pps.org on Nov 13, 2007 | Add Comment

(Washington, DC) — The KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play today announced the 31 founding members of the Playful City USA initiative.  Playful City USA is a national recognition program that honors cities and towns across the nation for a vision, plan and commitment to creating an agenda for play. Cities were recognized based on a [...]

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Designing Places for People to Meet

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 30, 2007 | Add Comment

Designers are working to create spaces and situations to encourage and promote interaction in a time where people are living closer together physically, but farther apart socially.  Community cannot be built; what can be built are spaces and situations to draw neighbors together. These spaces come in all forms. Multi-family complexes can center on [...]

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‘Place-making’ Forum Focuses on Local Flavor

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 29, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS Vice President Ethan Kent was one of the presenters at the Sustainable Tourism Development Forum held in Pawtucket, RI on Thursday, October 25, 2007.

The Providence Journal

By Philip Marcelo

PAWTUCKET— Policymakers, city planners and tourism officials from Rhode Island and neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts gathered downtown yesterday for a [...]

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Changing The Faces of San Antonio Parks

By rdahl@pps.org on Oct 25, 2007 | Add Comment

The faces of San Antonio’s parks are beginning to change as work has begun on several new greenbelt parks along the city’s major creeks and rivers.  This is big news for the “park-starved” community.  The parks will be along creeks and rivers, many of them connecting – each specifically for hiking, biking and preserving beauty.

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Despite Objectors, Skateboard Park Idea Grows

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

For one skateboarding advocate here, creating a system of skate parks in West Seattle isn’t just about building places to do aerials and flip tricks.

So far it’s just a blueprint with no funding, but the citywide skate park plan is gaining momentum in West Seattle, fueled by passionate skaters like West Seattle resident [...]

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Video on Urban Planning and Traffic in NY

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 29, 2007 | Add Comment

The Open Planning Project founder Mark Gorton in NY talks with “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz about about history of DOT in NYC, car-free Cental Park, and general transportation policy. It gives a great history of the evolution of transportation thinking and policy in NY over the last 40 years.

Click here to watch the video. [...]

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PPS Training Courses Open for Registration!

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Registration is now open for our two-day public training courses here in NYC:  How to Create Successful Markets, Oct. 12-13 and How to Turn a Place Around, Oct. 18-19

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Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Aug 3, 2007 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces Vice President, Ethan Kent, writes about Melbourne’s successful new public space development, Federation Square, and a Placemaking training course that he helped lead, which included many city staff, local developers and “place managers.”

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