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Safer, More Livable Streets through Bike Lanes

By Megan MacIver on Mar 8, 2011 | 6 Comments
Floating parking and bike lanes are low-cost interventions that can change the way a street is experienced, slow traffic and make sidewalks more livable.
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Pavement Instead of People: How Gov. LePage Moves Maine Backwards

By Gary Toth on Mar 4, 2011 | 7 Comments
Governor LePage "suspends the planning process" of a bottom-up land-use and transportation planning project involving 21 coastal communities in Maine
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What is Walkability? How Do You Measure It? Take-Aways from This Year’s TRB Meeting

By Project for Public Spaces on Feb 16, 2011 | 6 Comments
PPS' transportation team shares insights and new thinking on walkability from this year's Transportation Research Board meeting.
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New Research Strengthens Link between Walkable Neighborhoods and Civic Involvement

By Megan MacIver on Jan 27, 2011 | 6 Comments
A new report found that "people who live in walkable communities are more civically involved and have greater levels of trust than those who live in less-walkable neighborhoods.
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Community-Generated Alternatives to the $3.6B Columbia River Crossing Project in Portland, OR

By Megan MacIver on Dec 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Columbia River Crossing (CRC), one of the largest public works projects in the history of the Portland/Vancouver region, is turning to local citizens and stakeholders to generate alternatives to the current version of the $3.6 Billion project proposal to reduce congestion and enhance safety, livability, and mobility.

PPS Senior Transportation Initiatives Director [...]

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Brunswick, Maine Unveils a Placemaking Master Plan for Downtown

By Ken Farmer on Nov 3, 2010 | 4 Comments

“What’s really good about this master plan — and will probably be challenging — is that it stresses collaborating and cooperation among neighborhoods, businesses and the town…it isn’t, ‘Here is the blueprint.’ It’s more, ‘Here is the vision.’ We’re not saying sidewalks should be this wide and lighting should be this high. It’s really [...]

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Can Eye Contact Enhance Road Safety and a Sense of Place?

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 30, 2010 | 4 Comments

Is it possible to build community through transportation? Bjarne Winterberg, an architect and urban planner from Copenhagen, has brought road design and the goal of creating places together in ways that may be unmatched by anyone practicing in this field today.   He will share his views at PPS’ upcoming Conference on Sustainability and [...]

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The National Trust and PPS will help Tupelo balance modes of transportaion in their downtown.

Tupelo, MS to Get a Dose of Placemaking

By Tom Peyton on Aug 10, 2010 | 9 Comments

It’s official!  Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association will be the site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Project for Public Spaces’ Placemaking Demonstration Project.  A team of placemakers from the Trust’s National Main Street Center and PPS will travel to Tupelo to help this community capitalize on the assets that [...]

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Placemaking Meets Preservation

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 15, 2010 | 5 Comments
PPS and the National Trust for Historic Preservation team up to promote a new vision for the future (and past) of American communities

What’s the biggest secret army of placemakers throughout the world?

Historic preservationists. These tireless activists protect historically significant buildings, downtowns, neighborhood districts, parks and even whole landscapes. They are citizens and professionals [...]

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A Community Approach to Transit-Oriented Development in the New York Region

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 6, 2010 | Add Comment

Over the last several months, PPS, Reconnecting America and the Regional Plan Association have been working with communities along the Interstate 287 corridor to leverage their transportation investments in correlation with the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge.  The project team has led two-day workshops in Westchester and Rockland counties where stakeholders of [...]

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Places In the News: Transportation for the People

By Tom Peyton on Jun 25, 2010 | Add Comment

The momentum continues to grow in communities around the world to establish biking, walking and public transportation as essential components of a healthy transportation network. The more that different modes of transportation are balanced on urban, suburban, and rural roads and streets, the more that these streets become multi-use places where traffic slows and community [...]

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National Trust for Historic Preservation and PPS Partner to Create More Livable Communities

By Craig Raphael on Jun 22, 2010 | Add Comment

PPS is pleased to formally announce our new partnership with the National Trust. The full press release follows below; for questions about the partnership, please contact Steve Davies.

Washington, DC (June 22, 2010)–The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Project for Public Spaces (PPS) are partnering to enrich towns and cities across the country [...]

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