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Making the Journey a Destination: Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail Debuts

By Project for Public Spaces on May 10, 2013 | Add Comment

Back in 2007, we highlighted the Indianapolis Cultural Trail project in Bold Moves, Brave Actions, a feature that looked at five cities on five continents making exceptional strides toward becoming more people-friendly places. Indy, we wrote, was “taking what may be the boldest step of any American city towards supporting bicyclists and pedestrians” [...]

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Expanding the Rightsizing Streets Guide

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 30, 2013 | Add Comment

Today we are unveiling several new resources within the Rightsizing Streets Guide. We’re excited to share with you an interactive map featuring more than fifty successful rightsizing projects from around the US. We’ve also added two new full case studies to the guide. The case studies, contributed by the Congress for [...]

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9 Communities Selected to Receive Free Place-Based Sustainability Technical Assistance

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 22, 2013 | 1 Comment

This Earth Day, Project for Public Spaces and our partners at Livability Solutions are pleased to announce the 9 communities selected to receive free technical assistance in 2013, thanks to a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Sustainable Communities under their Building [...]

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Book Review: Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form

By Brendan Crain on Apr 9, 2013 | 1 Comment

Arguments about density are often front and center when walkability is being discussed. We know that density is an important factor in encouraging more walking (and discouraging driving), but walkability is a particularly complex, and seemingly ephemeral quality. Whether or not a person chooses to walk depends on so many factors beyond just [...]

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What You See is What You Get

By Mark Plotz on Mar 27, 2013 | 13 Comments

A few years back, I paid a visit to the headquarters of a state DOT, for the purpose of helping to plan its Safe Routes to School program. As DOTs went, this one had a reputation for being fairly amenable toward pedestrians, by which I mean that the department in question considered walking to be [...]

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Next stop: Pittsburgh! / Photo: mismisimos via Flickr

What Placemakers Can Learn from Bike/Ped Advocates

By Project for Public Spaces on Feb 21, 2013 | 1 Comment

Mark Plotz is the director of the National Center for Bicycling and Walking, a resident program of the Project for Public Spaces. What that means, in practice, is that Mark is the man who makes Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place happen! Mark’s been poring over the results of last September’s conference in Long [...]

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Walking is Not a Crime: Questioning the Accident Axiom

By David M Nelson on Feb 14, 2013 | 16 Comments

The Pedestrian Pandemic
In 2010, the last year the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHSTA) published such figures, a startling 4,280 pedestrians were hit and killed in traffic and 70,000 were injured. For many states, this past year was one of the most deadly in a decade, ending a general decline in pedestrian [...]

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The Porch in Philadelphia before and after rightsizing / Photo: University City District

Rightsizing Streets to Create Great Public Spaces

By Seth Ullman on Feb 7, 2013 | 1 Comment

I’m a pedestrian before I’m a driver, a rider, a passenger, a worker, or a shopper. I have to walk through public space to get anywhere, and I prefer walking where there are other people, comfortable sidewalks, and crossable streets. Plants, diverse businesses, and the possibility of running into friends are bonuses. Streets built just [...]

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Welcome to the Rightsizing Streets Guide

By Gary Toth on Jan 22, 2013 | 8 Comments

Many of our streets haven’t changed in decades, even when they’ve proven dangerous, or the surrounding communities’ needs have changed. When the roads have been altered, they have often been made wider, straighter, and faster, rather than more livable.

Our Rightsizing Streets Guide aims to help planners and community members update their streets to [...]

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Bracing for the Silver Tsunami

By Mark Plotz on Jan 17, 2013 | 1 Comment

In mid-December I was invited to participate in a listening session convened by the AARP and GOVERNING to consider the question of how local government can prepare for the so-called “Silver Tsunami” of Baby Boomers entering retirement. It was an impressive group that convened: leaders from Federal agencies; leaders from the many national non-profit organizations [...]

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How to Jump-Start a Walking School Bus: An Interview With Ian Thomas

By Mina Keyes on Jan 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

If you’re working to make it easier for children to walk and bike to school in your community, Ian Thomas is a name that you should know! Ian is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Pedestrian and Pedaling Network of Columbia, Missouri (PedNet). As he prepares to step down from this position [...]

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Volunteers use bikes to transport donated goods to hard-hit areas like Red Hook and the Rockaways after Superstorm Sandy / Photo:  Brennan Cavanaugh via Flickr

Adaptive Transportation: Bicycling Through Sandy’s Aftermath

By Mina Keyes on Nov 28, 2012 | 9 Comments

On Thursday following Superstorm Sandy, when much of New York City was still without power, the number of bike riders on the East River bridges rose more than 130 percent. The substantial increase in ridership, according to a study by NYU’s Rudin Center, showed that walking and biking commuters were, on average, the [...]

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