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PPS recommends one-way streets for Tucson

By ksalay@pps.org on Feb 10, 2005 | Add Comment

PPS is studying the Congress Street Corridor in downtown Tucson, AZ. In presentations this week, Phil Myrick unveiled recommendations that included keeping two downtown streets one-way, but reducing them to two lanes, and adding more space for pedestrians and curbside parking.

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Excitement Builds Around Detroit’s Campus Martius

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 20, 2004 | Add Comment

PPS’s work on the new Campus Martius in Downtown Detroit is recognized as an architectural highlight of 2004.

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Plan Would Make Seattle’s Freeway Park More People Friendly

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 15, 2004 | Add Comment

PPS visited Seattle to help the community develop a vision for how to revitalize the park.
Fred Kent’s interview with the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

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Return of the ‘King’

By Project for Public Spaces on Jul 16, 2004 | Add Comment
San Francisco Examiner, July 16, 2004. Cynthia Nikitin explains how the transformation of El Camino Real begins
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Cleveland’s Wade Oval Unveils Improvements

By Project for Public Spaces on Oct 10, 2003 | Add Comment

Cleveland, OH (October 10, 2003) – The restored and improved Wade Oval, a 7-acre public park located in Cleveland’s University Circle and surrounded by some of the city’s most respected cultural institutions, was unveiled at a re-dedication ceremony on Friday, October 10, 2003.

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) proposed the improvements in February 2002 to [...]

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By Project for Public Spaces on Sep 1, 2003 | Add Comment
We have been to London many times in the past several years, and every time we go, we are invigorated. London is terrific in this way: The more you go, the better and more interesting it gets.
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Littleton News: Experiments on Main St.

By Project for Public Spaces on Jun 9, 2003 | Add Comment

June 9, 2003
Teams Prepare for Experiment at Main Street Intersection

Littleton High School students and community leaders met last week at
The Coffee Pot restaurant to put pencil to paper. Their collective goal:
draw up specific recommendations on how the intersection of Main and Pleasant
Streets might be made better. [...]

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A Community Planning Process is Launched for Lower Manhattan

By Project for Public Spaces on May 9, 2002 | Add Comment
May 9, 2002
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Places to Visit or Avoid

By Project for Public Spaces on Apr 3, 2002 | Add Comment
April 3, 2002 - PRESS RELEASE
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William H. Whyte’s Classic ‘Social Life’ Back in Print

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 1, 2002 | Add Comment
March 1, 2002 - Press Release
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Places Loved and Loathed

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 11, 2002 | Add Comment
January 11, 2002
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Improving the Quality of Life in Urban Parks

By Project for Public Spaces on Dec 19, 2001 | Add Comment
December 19, 2001 - Press Release
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