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Guerrilla Gardeners Brighten London Under Cover of Dark

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

Guerrilla gardeners are going out at night to covertly plant colorful plants on public land in Central London.

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Parking Squat in Park Slope, Brooklyn

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

A group of livable streets advocates recently staged a “parking squat” in Park Slope, Brooklyn to draw attention to city policies that devote an unreasonable amount of public space to automobiles instead of people.

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Markets Important to Local Economies

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

Roberta Brandes Gratz, urban critic and PPS board member, comments on the economic importance of flea markets:

“Flea markets are a hands-on eBay,” says Gratz. “They’re important to our economy, even though they probably don’t show up anywhere. They’re a very useful form of recycling and a necessary source of affordably priced stuff.”

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Blueprint Developed for Better Delaney Park Strip

By kziegenfuss@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

Plans for short term improvements and a larger vision for Delaney Park Strip in Anchorage, Alaska are underway.

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Roberta Brandes Gratz on Flea Markets

By stsay@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

“Flea markets are a hands-on eBay,” says Gratz. “They’re important to our economy, even though they probably don’t show up anywhere. They’re a very useful form of recycling and a necessary source of affordably priced stuff.”

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Bicycle is King of the Road as Gas Costs Rise

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

Cycling advocates acknowledge that progress with forming policies that support and adequately fund biking may be slow at the national level, but many see a wave of action swelling up from below – at the city level, where exasperated mayors are connecting the dots.

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Developer Defends Atlantic Yards, Saying Towers Won’t Corrupt the Feel of Brooklyn

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

Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, said the new design is “still way too big, and does not change the fact of 16 skyscrapers slammed on top of and next to low-rise, historic neighborhoods.”

Frank Gehry, the project’s architect, and Laurie Olin, its landscape designer, emphasized details that they said would harmonize [...]

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Public Markets Conference from the eyes of Lexington Farmers’ Market

By stsay@pps.org on May 12, 2006 | Add Comment

“I was impressed by the incredible amount of innovation, creativity and energy surrounding farmers’ markets,” writes Sonia DeMarta.

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Public Market Potential in Davenport, IA

By stsay@pps.org on May 10, 2006 | Add Comment

Davenport keeps on working towards the potential of its public market.

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Hoping to “ruffle feathers” in Tacoma

By stsay@pps.org on May 10, 2006 | Add Comment

The News Tribune extends a welcome to PPS in Tacoma, WA.

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Harvard Crimson Weighs in on Allston Plan

By stsay@pps.org on May 10, 2006 | Add Comment

The Crimson, Harvard’s student-run newspaper, calls for an Allston plan that represents the future of Harvard, not just a representation of what’s new in the design field.

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Inmates and Community Gardeners Unite to Feed Philly’s Hungry

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

An unlikely partnership between community gardeners and local prison inmates will help feed the over one fifth of Philadelphia residents living below the poverty line.

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