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Gas Guzzlers Could Pay £25 to Enter London

By jmichaelson@pps.org on Jul 17, 2006 | Add Comment

Mayor Ken Livingston is proposing raising the city’s congestion charge for SUVs to £25, while providing discounts for low-emissions vehicles.

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Stalling Sprawl: CT Must Take Leadership Role In Shaping Development

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 14, 2006 | Add Comment

Two leaders of the smart growth movement, former Maryland Gov. Perris Glendening and former New Jersey Gov. and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, highlight some of the lessons learned from other states.

“Remember, if you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.”

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Injecting Life into Barren Schoolyards

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 14, 2006 | Add Comment

An innovative program in Denver, CO, has transformed neglected schoolyards into community centers.

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People are the Focus of Renewal as PPS Envisions Flint, MI as a Destination

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

PPS staff members Steve Davies, Ethan Kent, and Elena Madison traveled to Flint MI for two days of meetings with city officials, community leaders and stakeholders, and tours of potential sites that could be transformed into vibrant destinations.

PPS will return to Flint for public workshops that will focus on Riverbank Park, [...]

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Ignoring Rail Only Leads to Massive Freeway Projects

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 10, 2006 | Add Comment

By  ignoring  rail,  federal and state plans for building America’s transportation infrastructure through private investments will only serve to promote massive freeway projects, writes Neil Peirce.

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Death of an Urban Farm

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

When authorities closed down the South Central garden in Los Angeles, the community lost more than an urban farm writes LA Times columnist Al Martinez.

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PPS Brings Placemaking Training to Bellingham, WA

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

Fred Kent, Ethan Kent, and Juliette Michaelson of PPS visited Bellingham, WA last week, and trained 75 city staff, council members, and community leaders in the principles and techniques of Placemaking.
The Mayor of Bellingham, Mark Asmundson, who has also attended PPS’s “How to Turn a Place Around” training, wrote [...]

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New Schools, Better Neighborhoods

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

Former California State Architect Steven Castellanos outlines the changes that would be required to change how schools are designed and built if they are to become centers of communities.

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Two Views on Trends in Public and Academic Libraries

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

ArchNews contributer Kenneth Caldwell interviews two architects and discusses library design trends, and the renewed roles that all kinds of libraries have to play in our civic life.

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Awakening to the Greenmarket: A Cook Obsessed

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 28, 2006 | Add Comment

Celia Barbour, a chef who lives on Union Square in NYC, discusses her obsession with shopping at the Union Square Greenmarket, and discovering how to build a meal with seasonal items that come straight from the farm.

This piece is a part of Bringing it Home, a column on Greenmarket that will run weekly this [...]

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New Public Market Envisioned in Tucson, AZ

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 27, 2006 | Add Comment

PPS is assiting with the development of a new public market that will feature 48 vendors in an open-air shed, and is helping to ensure that the market represents the community that is 79% hispanic.

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Advice for a New Public Square (PDF)

By bfried@pps.org on Jun 26, 2006 | Add Comment

Cynthia Nikitin, Director of PPS’s Civic Centers Program, addressed an audience at the University of Waterloo (Ontario) last week about the city’s plans for a new public square and library. The Waterloo Record published this article about Cynthia prior to her talk. Among the questions she tackled were how to overcome the fixation on parking [...]

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