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Make Your Place Great: Register for Our Spring 2012 Trainings Today!

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 19, 2012 | Add Comment
Register today for our Spring 2012 Placemaking Trainings, "How to Turn a Place Around" (April 19-20) & "Placemaking: Making It Happen" (April 25-27).
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In Nairobi, Re-Framing Mundane Spaces as Exciting Places

By Cynthia Nikitin on Mar 12, 2012 | 5 Comments
Cynthia Nikitin reports back on lessons learned during the first placemaking training in Nairobi run through PPS's partnership with UN-Habitat.
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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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Supporting Placemaking Leadership in Michigan

By joshkent on Mar 6, 2012 | Add Comment
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Wider, Straighter, and Faster Not the Solution for Older Drivers

By Gary Toth on Mar 6, 2012 | 9 Comments
This approach not only fails to fix safety problems on urban and suburban arterials -- it actually makes them worse.
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San Antonio Is a Popping City!

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 5, 2012 | 1 Comment
San Antonio is putting a lot of energy into remaking its downtown as a place for people.
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Levels of Service and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets?

By Gary Toth on Feb 6, 2012 | 16 Comments
When we try to eliminate congestion from our urban areas by using decades-old traffic engineering measures and models, we are essentially using a rototiller to weed a flowerbed.
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Dún Laoghaire's beautiful harbor is one of its main attractions. Photo: William Murphy via Flickr.

Placemaking Goes to Ireland!

By Project for Public Spaces on Feb 2, 2012 | 5 Comments
“How to Turn a Place Around in Ireland” will introduce new ways of thinking about public spaces and how Placemaking can be used to bring communities together and revitalize underperforming spaces.
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10 Communities Selected to Receive Technical Assistance

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 16, 2012 | 5 Comments
Livability Solutions are pleased to announce the 10 communities selected to receive free technical assistance this year, thanks to a grant to Project for Public Spaces from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Sustainable Communities under their Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program.These governments and organizations represent a diverse group of communities [...]
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Long Beach has been building a great network of bike lanes, making it a natural choice for next Year's Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference. Photo: waltarrr via Flickr.

Submit Your Proposal for the 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference!

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
The 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference, to be held September 10–13 of next year Long Beach, Ca., is starting to take shape, and you can be a part of it. Do you have a proposal for a presentation? The call for submissions is now open.
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‘A Day in the Life of a Pop-Up Café’

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 13, 2011 | 2 Comments
A time-lapse video shows just how much social value you can get by turning a parking spot into a place for people.
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Photo: Mark Iantosca

‘Bring to Light’ Reimagines Public Space With Artistic Spectacle

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 12, 2011 | 3 Comments
Bring to Light is an immersive nighttime event on New York City’s waterfront that presents site-specific installations of light, sound, performance, and projection art, reconfiguring public space to showcase possibilities for change.
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