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Shared Street Space Making Neighborhoods Friendlier and Safer

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 10, 2007 | Add Comment

An urban planning philosophy often labelled Home Zone or Shared Space has developed over the past three decades and promotes sensitive street design as a way to create more people-friendly environments.

“We should learn to build villages in the way they were built in the past,” says Hans Monderman, the Dutch engineer seen as the [...]

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Winners of Jane Jacobs Medal Announced

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 28, 2007 | Add Comment

After funding the research that helped Jane Jacobs produce her landmark book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” nearly 50 yeas ago, the Rockefeller Foundation has inaugurated the first Jane Jacobs Medals.

Barry Benepe, the 79-year-old founder of Greenmarket, will receive the first medal for “lifetime leadership.” Omar Freilla, the 33-year-old founder of [...]

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Returning Streets to People, Not Cars, in Bogota, Colombia

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 28, 2007 | Add Comment

Bogota, Colombia, has turned itself around by focusing on using the public realm to promote the greatest amount of happiness. First stop? Car-free days. The city’s campaign to return streets from cars to people is now a model for the world.

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Bike Activists Paint Their Own Bike Lanes

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 26, 2007 | Add Comment

After Toronto’s plan to add bike lanes falls behind schedule, cycling activists paint their own bike lanes.

“The city is taking way too long…Why don’t they just paint the bike lanes? People are dying.”

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Free the Bench! Mock Trial over Bench in Surrey, BC

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2007 | Add Comment

Local politicians – lawyers among them – will be staging a mock trial Saturday on whether to set free a wooden bench near the Surrey Central SkyTrain and bus loop in Surrey, British Columbia.

The idea for the bench trial came about after public spaces guru Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces, toured [...]

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Lessons from Bogota’s Ciclovia

By kwinzler@pps.org on Jun 12, 2007 | Add Comment

Cyclovia is a weekly event in Botoga, Colombia, that closes 70 miles of city streets and makes them available to bikers, skaters, and walkers.

All modes (except cars) and all ages, sizes, classes share the road.  The  event  seems as simple and direct a way as possible at addressing the great class and [...]

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Career Opportunities Available at Project for Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces is seeking to fill three positions: Executive Assistant; Associate, Marketing and Development; and Associate, Website and Database Manager.

Click here for the full job descriptions and information on how to apply.

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What a Bike-Friendly City Looks Like

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 7, 2007 | Add Comment

If bicyclists are given their own pathways, as pedestrians have with sidewalks, this healthy, efficient mode of transportation can take off as it has in Europe.

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Community Board to Vote on Vision for Hell’s Kitchen

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 6, 2007 | Add Comment

In order to foster ideas on how to reclaim 9th Avenue from Lincoln Tunnel traffic, the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition (CHEKPEDS) sponsored a six month community input process designed by Project for Public Spaces.

Community Board 4 will hold a vote tonight on adopting report findings as “the official community vision.” If [...]

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Philadelphia’s ‘Gridlock’ – Too Much Of A Good Thing?

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 4, 2007 | Add Comment

Center City’s narrow streets and dense concentration contribute to an exciting and walkable urban center. Yet, the increase in visitors and residents has resulted in an increase in the number of vehicles and delivery trucks in search of parking.

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Traffic Devices Cut Car Speeds in Ramsey, NJ

By ksalay@pps.org on May 22, 2007 | Add Comment

Speeding is down at an intersection in Ramsey, NJ, where temporary traffic calming devices were installed at the end of last month.

Modifications to the corner were just one of the changes suggested by Project for Public Spaces during a study of the streets around a train station that opened in 2004.

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People and Activity Bring Vitality to Communities

By joshkent on May 22, 2007 | Add Comment

Fred Kent believes that you can have the most attractively built community in the world, but if people don’t come together to mix in public spaces, it’s just dead space.

His theory is that attractive, non-automobile dominated public spaces layered with multi-use functions will pump vitality back into communities that have become too isolated.

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