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A breath of fresh air on the Hill

By Craig Raphael on Mar 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

A breath of fresh air on the Hill: Secretaries LaHood and Donovan told Congress yesterday that they’ve formed a new partnership between DOT and HUD to promote livable, sustainable communities and transportation.

And they’re speaking the language we always dreamed of hearing from our government. The partnerships aims to “revitalize our downtowns, [...]

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Pedaling a New Protocol in Public Spaces

By Craig Raphael on Mar 9, 2009 | 1 Comment

Streets are a city’s most prevalent public space, yet they are also among its most contested. Nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, where cars, bikes and pedestrians fight daily for dominance on crowded avenues and narrow side-streets.

The sheer volume of city traffic and a deeply ingrained culture of aggression [...]

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‘Streets For People’ Campaign Kicks off in Seattle

By Brian Geraghty on Mar 5, 2009 | 5 Comments

‘What’s your street for?’ is the motto of Seattle’s new Streets for People Campaign.  Modeled in many ways after the ‘Open source’ NYC Street Renaissance Campaign that PPS helped to found, Streets for People’s approach to advocacy is to connect, convene and inspire a new conversation about how streets can best [...]

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PPS Featured on NYTimes Website

By Craig Raphael on Mar 2, 2009 | Add Comment

PPS Vice President Steve Davies’ commentary on the new pedestrian improvements  coming soon to Broadway was featured on the “Room for Debate” blog on the New York Times website. To read the article, please click here.

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PPS Training: Streets as Places

By dkitzes on Feb 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

PPS offers “Streets as Places,” a two-day transportation & Placemaking training seminar intended to introduce participants to new ways of thinking about streets and how Placemaking can be used to build great streets and great communities.

Click here for more information.

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Broadway Dreams to be Realized

By Craig Raphael on Feb 26, 2009 | 7 Comments

Many more people will soon get their chance to be on Broadway.  In a bold and exciting development, Janette Sadik-Kahn, the head of NYC DOT, announced that the city will close several sections of Broadway to car traffic as early as May. The street closures will be filled with tables, seating and other pedestrian amenities [...]

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A world where “cars have a right to housing and people don’t”

By jgalef on Feb 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

Via Wired, a transportation planner makes an impassioned plea for overhauling our car-centric mindset. Our cities have become places where “cars have a right to housing and people don’t,” lamented Timothy Papandreau at a recent symposium called Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility.

Just think of the space required to support our [...]

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In Santiago, Chile: When Public Spaces Come First, both City and Developer Win

By Craig Raphael on Feb 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

Despite being in one of Santiago’s most important neighborhoods and anchored by one of the busiest train and bus stations in the city, the Las Condes plazas and commercial galleries had become a place to pass through as quickly as possible. After the galleries were built in the 1980s, they steadily lost [...]

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Streetsblog gets credit for its influence as a new breed of advocacy journalism.

By Brian Geraghty on Feb 4, 2009 | 4 Comments

At the dawn of a revolution in transportation planning policy, there stands an influential engine that has bridged the divide between advocacy and government, moving towards a common goal. Streetsblog – an advocacy website at the forefront of the livable streets movement and the golden goose of their lesser known parent organization called Continue Reading

Route 17

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Bergen County, NJ (2004-present). PPS is leading a community planning effort to mitigating congestion by re-considering adjacent land use instead of widening the Route 17.
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10th International Walk21 Pedestrian Planning Conference, Cynthia Nikitin to speak.

By dkitzes on Dec 22, 2008 | Add Comment

The New York City Department of Transportation will host the 10th International Walk21 Pedestrian Planning Conference. PPS is serving on the conference advisory committee.

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Chappaqua Town Board Invites Public to Respond to Plans for New Downtown

By Brian Geraghty on Dec 9, 2008 | Add Comment

The lower end of King Street in Chappaqua, NY has needed a makeover for a long time. Located at the center of town and across from the Metro North Railroad station, it’s a natural public gathering place.

PPS proposed a host of suggestions several years ago to revitalize the area and in September the town [...]

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