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Parking Squat in Park Slope, Brooklyn

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | 1 Comment

A group of livable streets advocates recently staged a “parking squat” in Park Slope, Brooklyn to draw attention to city policies that devote an unreasonable amount of public space to automobiles instead of people.

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Bicycle is King of the Road as Gas Costs Rise

By ksalay@pps.org on May 12, 2006 | Add Comment

Cycling advocates acknowledge that progress with forming policies that support and adequately fund biking may be slow at the national level, but many see a wave of action swelling up from below – at the city level, where exasperated mayors are connecting the dots.

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Remembering Jane Jacobs: The Life and Times of a Local Luminary

By ksalay@pps.org on May 5, 2006 | Add Comment

“Jane Jacobs didn’t trust urban planners. She once told me that planners would call her all the time and tell her what great work they were doing in her name. Then she would find out that they were following the same old pattern she was opposed to.”

Urban Planner Thomas G. Lunke reflects on the [...]

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How Bicycling Can Help Save the World

By ksalay@pps.org on May 2, 2006 | 3 Comments

With 50 percent of their daily car trips no longer than three miles, Americans could easily make half of them on foot or on bikes, which would save the nation 24 billion gallons of gas a year, proportionally cut tailpipe emissions, and reduce overweight and obesity rates, especially among kids, said Missoula-based Adventure Cycling director [...]

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Godmother of the American City

By ksalay@pps.org on May 1, 2006 | 3 Comments

In memory of Jane Jacobs, one of urban planning’s most influential critics, Metropolis Magazine reprints James Howard Kunstler’s interview with her, from September 2000.

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How Jane Jacobs Challenged ‘Olympian’ Planners

By ksalay@pps.org on May 1, 2006 | Add Comment

Jane Jacobs had no college degree in architecture or urban planning. How did she defiantly challenge influential figures such as urban-renewal “czar” Robert Moses?

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Elmira Promenade Takes City Spotlight

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

“It takes a community to create a great place,” advised PPS’s Andy Wiley-Schwartz in his keynote presentation at the annual meeting of Elmira Downtown Development in Elmira, NY.

Andy, with Cynthia Nikitin and Nick Grossman, kicked-off the planning process for the Elmira Promenade. Revitalizing the Promenade is part of downtown development plan to create a [...]

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Jane Jacobs, Renowned Urban Activist, Dies at 89

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 25, 2006 | Add Comment

Jane Jacobs, the writer and thinker who brought penetrating eyes and ingenious insight to the sidewalk ballet of her own Greenwich Village street and came up with a book that challenged and changed the way people view cities, died today in Toronto, where she lived. She was 89.

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Immigration Rallies Remind Us Why Public Spaces Are Vital

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 24, 2006 | Add Comment

Recent demonstrations and immigration rallies have proved that public spaces are very much alive.

“These are the nation’s civic squares. This is a way of expressing things on a massive leve,” said Fred Kent, president of the Project for Public Spaces.

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“Transportation is All About Communities”

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 24, 2006 | Add Comment

“Transportation affects almost every element on the town warrant, from the cost of our town roads, trails and sidewalks to the human services that help our seniors and shut-ins get to religious services and medical appointments.”

NH DOT has created a transportation plan that the Community Advisory Committee is presenting in town meetings across the [...]

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The Flaneur is Alive and Sauntering in the Modern Metropolis

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 21, 2006 | Add Comment

The art of the flaneur – wandering aimlessly around the city, observing its daily rhythms – has been revived by photobloggers.

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Free Parking Eliminated In Seattle

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 21, 2006 | Add Comment

New solar-powered pay kiosks are increasing city revenue at formerly metered or free spaces, and new plans are afoot to rollback after hours free parking, meaning nights and weekends could cost drivers.

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