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Fred Kent on What Makes a Great Waterfront – Radio Interview

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 1, 2007 | Add Comment

Listen to Fred Kent discuss what makes a great waterfront on San Diego’s KPBS.

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Tempe Seeks a Walkable Downtown

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 1, 2007 | Add Comment

At a public meeting in Tempe, AZ, PPS Vice President Phil Myrick recommended that the city create a network of pedestrian walkways to connect the area’s destinations.

Image (c) Andrea Bloom / The State Press

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Latinos and Planning: The Road Ahead

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 26, 2007 | 2 Comments

With the Latino population growing tremendously, it’s time to begin addressing the shortcomings in the practice of planning regarding this key demographic.

In an op-ed from Planetizen, Leonardo Vazquez explores the Biggest challenges facing Latino communities.

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Big TOD Project Breaks Ground In L.A.

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Ground has been broken on an expansive transit-oriented development in the heart of Hollywood. A new hotel, apartment complex, and shopping center are part of the project, which is situated above one of L.A.’s subway stations.

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How Do We Make Drivers Respect Communities?

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 12, 2007 | Add Comment

Ethan Kent writes on the dramatic increase in traffic in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and asks, how do we get drivers to respect the communities they are driving through?

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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Award to Honor Jane Jacobs

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 9, 2007 | Add Comment

The Rockefeller Foundation announced the creation of the Jane Jacobs Medal, an award that will recognize individuals whose creative vision for the urban environment has significantly contributed to the vibrancy and variety of New York City.

The medal will be given annually to two people: one who has made a lifetime contribution and another [...]

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Making Downtown Atlanta More Pedestrian-Friendly

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

$3.1 million will be spent over the next two years on an effort to improve streets in Downtown Atlanta and make the city’s heart more pedestrian friendly. Projects include in-ground sidewalk planters along curbs to dissuade walkers from crossing in the middle of streets, more mid-block traffic signals that can be activated by pedestrians, realigning [...]

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Is New York Still the Pedestrian Capital of America?

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 1, 2007 | Add Comment

“Lately, though, as far as pedestrian issues go, New York is acting more like the rest of America, and the rest of America is acting more like the once-inspiring New York.

…One reason New York is losing its New York edge may be that the city’s revival is partly based on a strange reversal: [...]

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Paris Plans to Stop Invasion of Megastores on the Champs-Elysees

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 1, 2007 | Add Comment

The Paris city government has begun to push back against the proliferation of megastores, promising a plan aimed at stopping the “banalization” of the Champs-Elysees. The question is whether it is too late.

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A More Sensitive Approach to Street Planning

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

“Move more people, not vehicles.

Create better passageways that connect into existing roads rather than increase asphalt lanes.

Develop plans that are sensitive to existing roads, neighborhoods and land uses.

Above all: Include the public in conversations with engineers from the very beginning.

It seems simple enough, but the basic tenets of Context Sensitive Design [...]

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Ugly Symbol of Highways as Usual in Hartford, CT

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 17, 2007 | Add Comment

The Connecticut Department of Transportation continues to put forward projects that are eyesores and disrupt communities without public involvement, according to Toni Gold’s commentary in the Hartford Courant.  While many transportation engineers are aware of  the ‘context sensitive solutions’ movement, CTDOT continues to build transportation projects without linking them to land use planning.

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Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 12, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS facilitated the first meeting of the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, attended by over 130 members of the community. The project will focus on transforming Ninth Avenue from a traffic-choked, polluted highway, to a community-oriented Main Street.  Aaron Naparstek brings us his take on the meeting on Streetsblog.

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