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The Yorkville Ramblas plan for 2nd Avenue, created by Massengale and Dover's firms for the By the City / For the City design competition / Photo: Dover Kohl & Partners

Creating Great Streets: What Does it Take? An Interview With John Massengale & Victor Dover

By Mina Keyes on Jul 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

We recently chatted with experts John Massengale and Victor Dover about their soon-to-be-released book Street Design, which details the art and practice of creating great streets for people. In researching this book, John and Victor traveled across the world evaluating and experiencing different kinds of streets.  John is an architect, urbanist, owner of Massengale [...]

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Charlie Gandy and Bikeable Communites Executive Director Josh Frank enjoy Berlin Bistro's new parklet. / Photo: Allan Crawford

Gazelles & the Art of Placemaking

By Charlie Gandy on Jun 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

What happens when local small businesses bring a healthy dose of creative talent and out-of-the-box thinking to their entrepreneurial mix? What happens when they see themselves as progressive artisans and thought leaders and feel empowered to spread their enthusiasm with fellow local business owners? Business zones in cities and towns that were once depressed and/or [...]

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Bridging the Gap Between Transportation & Community Health

By Mina Keyes on Jun 19, 2012 | Add Comment

While serving as Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kate Kraft contributed to setting up the successful New Jersey FIT: Future In Transportation program at the New Jersey Department of Transportation.  She currently works as a Community Health and Wellness Consultant and  serves on the board of the Continue Reading

Brooklyn's Court Street is often bustling with pedestrian activity. / Photo: PPS

Six Big Questions From the Walking and the Life of the City Symposium

By Natalia Radywyl on Jun 12, 2012 | 9 Comments
“Walking: It’s What You Do Once You’ve Parked Your Car…”

Or so lamented Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt, in his keynote address at last week’s Walking and the Life of the City Symposium, organized by the NYU Wagner School’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Vanderbilt set the morning’s theme by charting [...]

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How “Small Change” Leads to Big Change: Social Capital and Healthy Places

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 6, 2012 | 7 Comments

According to Dr. Richard Jackson, a pioneering public health advocate and former CDC official now serving as the Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA, the idea that buildings, streets, and public spaces play a key role in the serious public health issues that we face in the US “has undergone a profound sea change [...]

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Even in Red Deer's downtown area, pedestrians play second fiddle to automotive traffic / Photo: Gary Toth

Going Multi-Modal in the “Texas of the North”

By Project for Public Spaces on May 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

Red Deer, Alberta, is a small city about halfway between Calgary and Edmonton. Once a sleepy agricultural outpost that provided a convenient stopover for travelers moving between the territory’s two larger cities, Red Deer has experienced substantial growth over the past three decades due to the growth of the oil industry, booming from 30,000 residents [...]

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It’s a Good Week to be a Bicyclist

By Project for Public Spaces on May 15, 2012 | Add Comment
No matter why you ride, there's a great reason to get out this week and explore your city on two wheels.
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Complete Streets: One Size Does Not Fit All

By Project for Public Spaces on May 9, 2012 | Add Comment
Complete Streets are about much more than just bike lanes! As we see in this video of Gary Toth's recent talk in Toronto, Place plays a critical role.
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Three Reasons That Bikeshare Stations Are Ideal Triangulators

By Project for Public Spaces on May 8, 2012 | 2 Comments

With yesterday’s big announcement from the NYC DOT, bike shares are in the news again. Here in New York, we’re getting excited about the possibilities on the horizon as hundreds of bike share stations start popping up all over town. These stations don’t just improve mobility and transportation options–they’re also wonderful tools for activating [...]

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Finding a Context Sensitive Solution in Denver

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 11, 2012 | Add Comment
Our new video illustrates how the FHWA's CSS approach works directly with local stakeholders to plan transportation projects that are responsive to the communities they serve.
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Bike Lanes: The New Job Creators?

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 21, 2012 | 2 Comments
Long Beach shows how bicycling and walking investments can add value to a community and improve quality of life.
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Early Bird Registration for Pro Walk / Pro Bike 2012: "Pro Place" is Now Open

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
The reduced-rate early registration period is now open for the 17th Pro Walk / Pro Bike conference, which will take place from September 10-13, 2012.
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