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Summer 2006 Internship Opportunities at PPS

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 8, 2006 | 6 Comments

Job Openings

Summer 2006 Internship Opportunities

Cover letter and resume should be submitted by Sunday, March 12
by midnight to: Internship Coordinator, Arianna Martinez at amartinez@pps.org

The three-month internship is offered to graduate students in planning or related
fields. We seek students who are passionate about preserving vibrant existing
public spaces [...]

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Upcoming Speaking Events with Fred Kent, San Diego, CA

By ksalay@pps.org on Mar 8, 2006 | Add Comment

Fred Kent, President of PPS, is participating in two events in San Diego, CA, on March 14 and 15:

“Creating a Sense of Place,” March 14, 7:00 pm
Fred will be giving a lecture at UCSD as a part of the Helen Edison Lecture Series. For more information on the event, please visit: Continue Reading

New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign and Exhibit

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

PPS is excited to announce to you an exhibit we have just opened at the Urban Center Galleries at the Municipal Art Society. The exhibit Livable Streets: A New Vision for New York is the public kick off of the New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign that PPS is running with Transportation Alternatives [...]

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If You Build It, They Will Come — on Foot

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

Jay Walljasper writes on the emerging movement to reclaim public spaces, from Copehagen to Bellevue.

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Upcoming PPS Speaking Events

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 7, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS is participating in several conferences and events in the next few weeks in: Madison, WI; Miami, FL; Trenton, NJ; and Richmond, CAN. For more information on any of these events, please visit the links below:

February 16: Phil Myrick will be the keynote speaker at the 2006 Wisconsin Business Improvement District Conference, giving a [...]

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A New Concept for Road Planning

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 6, 2006 | Add Comment

America’s state highway departments are ceasing to operate as overbearing Goliaths, and are instead beginning to use context sensitive approaches to working with communities.

New Hampshire has perhaps made the most remarkable change thus far, trying to retain its quality of life by looking for alternatives to faster roads and more cars.

Carol Murray, New [...]

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Turn CT Speedway Into A Boulevard

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 23, 2006 | Add Comment

Toni Gold, a Senior Associate of PPS, recommends turning a dangerous speedway in a Connecticut town into a boulevard designed for speeds no greater than 40 mph, using narrow lanes, bike lanes, a raised planted medium, and lots of crosswalks.

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Once-popular Elevated Skywalks Suck Life Out of Streets

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 11, 2006 | Add Comment

“More cities are realizing that skywalks are not what they were cut out to be,” said Fred Kent, president of Project for Public Spaces, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that helps communities create and sustain public places. “Instead of drawing additional people and retail to a second level, skywalks have left streets lifeless, presenting [...]

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Car Trouble

By ngrossman@pps.org on Jan 9, 2006 | Add Comment

Every day it seems we find ourselves more and more immersed in car culture. Jay Walljasper wonders if there is an end in sight.

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Give the Suburbs a Place to Gather

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 9, 2006 | Add Comment

When it comes to creating great places that inspire the public, it’s the spaces between buildings – not the structures themselves – that matter most.

Fred Kent and Benjamin Fried discuss how flashy, iconic design often gets in the way of creating great public spaces in this editorial in Newsday.

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Car Trouble

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 6, 2006 | Add Comment

As millions of Asian citizens jubilantly embrace driving, some experts predict an enviro nightmare.

“I sometimes find it hard to believe there could be any more cars in the world than there are today,” writes PPS’s Jay Walljasper. “Yet if economic forecasts are to be believed, auto use will rise dramatically in coming years as [...]

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On the Value of Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 6, 2006 | 1 Comment

PPS Senior Fellow Jay Walljasper is this month’s guest blogger at On the Commons.org, a website that is part of a growing movement to preserve the commons. Read Jay’s column on the grassroots movement that is spreading across North America to infuse a new spirit of public life into neighborhoods and towns.

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