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Chinese Government Encourages More Bicycles, Fewer Cars

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

“Having spent the past decade pursuing a transport policy of four wheels rich, two wheels poor, the Chinese government has suddenly rediscovered the environmental and health benefits of the bicycle.

The construction ministry announced on Thursday that any bike lanes that have been narrowed or destroyed to make way for cars in recent years must [...]

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New Campaign to Find UK’s ‘Most Depressing’ Public Building

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 20, 2006 | Add Comment

“A new campaign to highlight the impact of bad design on people and the places where we live has been launched by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

CABE believes that bad design is not just about aesthetics: it is about buildings and spaces that don’t work, can’t be maintained, and waste money [...]

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Group Calls for Major Changes in Atlantic Yards Plan, Brooklyn

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 16, 2006 | Add Comment

The Municipal Art Society called yesterday for significant changes to the proposed Atlantic Yards project near Downtown Brooklyn, saying that the current plan would overwhelm the surrounding neighborhoods and burden the area with more traffic.

Members of MAS, an association of architects, designers and planners founded in 1893, leveled the criticisms during a presentation [...]

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Chicago’s Proposal for 500-mile Network of Bike Paths

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

“Chicago is set to unveil new plans for becoming a bicyclist’s haven. And this time, it means business.

The new Bike 2015 Plan wastes little time on breezy rides in the park. Instead, the city’s Department of Transportation is bent on getting people to bike to work, to school, to stores and to mass [...]

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City Repair Project: Creating Community Gathering Places

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

City Repair Project is a nonprofit group that aims to tackle the isolation people experience in the world by creating gathering spaces in the community. Or as its tag line says, “transforming space into place.”

The group helps mobilize people to create whimsical and functional projects in their neighborhoods: everything from benches and painted [...]

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Reusing Historic Buildings

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

“The idea of reusing historic buildings is now so ingrained in our culture that it is hard to imagine that only a few decades ago it was a radical concept. Now we see old structures as heritage, as potential money-spinners, as ciphers for authenticity. The British countryside is littered with arts centres in old mills and [...]

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PPS Presentation in Chappaqua, NY

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 13, 2006 | Add Comment

Town officials are encouraging residents to express their opinions Tuesday night on how to enhance the quality of life in downtown Chappaqua.

Meg Walker, PPS Vice President, gave a presentation at the town board meeting on Tuesday, June 13. 

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Boston’s City Hall Plaza Now Features a Concrete Slab

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 12, 2006 | 2 Comments

For decades, the fountain in City Hall Plaza has been a maintenance nightmare, with incessant leaks and broken filters and motors.  City officials have found a new solution to the problem: pave it over.

The fountain is now covered by a concrete slab the size of a baseball infield. While some see the possibility for [...]

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Council Endorses San Antonio’s Main Plaza Makeover

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

The City Council supported a plan for the revitalization of the historic Main Square in San Antonio.  Project for Public Spaces held a public workshop in March, eliciting such ideas from community members as “creating cafe-like environments, pedestrian-oriented spaces and opportunities for vending or sitting and people watching.”

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Harvard Takes First Allston Steps, Refines Master Plans

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 9, 2006 | 1 Comment

Harvard University’s plans for an extension of its campus in Allston took more definite shape with the selection of a site and architect for a half-million-square-foot science complex, as well as the announcement of plans for new arts and culture facilities.

PPS facilitated a Placemaking workshop with 50 Allston residents, who discussed ways the surrounding [...]

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How a Park Changed a Chicago Neighborhood

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2006 | 1 Comment

“Millennium Park, the $475 million modernist playground that opened at the edge of Lake Michigan here two years ago, has quickly become one of the city’s leading tourist attractions. What is less known, however, is that the 24.6-acre park…has had a transforming effect on the surrounding neighborhood.

In the late 1990′s, the area, known as [...]

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Fred Kent Voices Concerns over Proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2006 | 4 Comments

Concerned with the “suburbanization of the city,” Fred Kent is concerned that the new park will become a private backyard for several proposed 20- to 30-story luxury apartment towers.  “Towers in parks is an old idea that was tried and failed in the 50s and 60s, and now it’s coming back, unfortunately,” said Fred.

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