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Contested bike lane in Prospect Park West. Photo via Flickr by Steven Vance.

Transportation Investments for People, Not Traffic

By Gary Toth on Mar 17, 2011 | 6 Comments
Gary Toth and Sharon Roerty weigh in on the Prospect Park West bike lane lawsuit
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Safer, More Livable Streets through Bike Lanes

By Megan MacIver on Mar 8, 2011 | 6 Comments
Floating parking and bike lanes are low-cost interventions that can change the way a street is experienced, slow traffic and make sidewalks more livable.
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Pavement Instead of People: How Gov. LePage Moves Maine Backwards

By Gary Toth on Mar 4, 2011 | 7 Comments
Governor LePage "suspends the planning process" of a bottom-up land-use and transportation planning project involving 21 coastal communities in Maine
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A Place-Based Approach to Food Access: Creating a Healthier Future for Birmingham, AL

By Andrew Lappin on Mar 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
One of America's most obese cities, Birmingham, AL has begun to create a system of farmers markets to get fresh food to the neighborhoods that need it most.
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A Focus on Place for Downtown Baltimore’s New Open Space Plan

By Megan MacIver on Mar 1, 2011 | 5 Comments
How a BID used workshops, experts, and new digital engagement methods to create a broad community vision and re-imagine public space in a 125 block downtown area.
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Community members brainstorm possible partners and activities they'd like to see at the year-round public market

Transforming an Empty Building into a Year-Round Hub for Local Food

By Megan MacIver on Feb 28, 2011 | Add Comment
Plans for Boston's new downtown market have been guided by a participatory process involving local residents who say they want their market to feature fresh, regional food.
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Placemaking in Kosovo: “How to Turn a Place Around” Now in Albanian

By Megan MacIver on Feb 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
Making this guide available to an Albanian audience builds on PPS work in the Eastern European region.
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Protesters gather in Tahir Square. Flickr Photo by Ramy Raoof

Public Space Powered Democracy

By Project for Public Spaces on Feb 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
The exercise of democracy depends upon having a literal commons where people can gather as citizens—a square, Main Street, park or other public space that is open to all.
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Walking and Biking along the water in Vancouver, Canada

What is Walkability? How Do You Measure It? Take-Aways from This Year’s TRB Meeting

By Project for Public Spaces on Feb 16, 2011 | 6 Comments
PPS' transportation team shares insights and new thinking on walkability from this year's Transportation Research Board meeting.
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The Fight for More Public Space: A Community-Led Campaign For A New Park in Jackson Heights, NYC

By Hannah Aronshtein on Feb 14, 2011 | Add Comment
To overcome a lengthy review process standing in the way of plans for a park, the local community is using a different funding model to build a new public space.
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Buffalo's Waterfront is poised for a transformation. Flickr photo by Rho-bin

A New Planning Forum to “Free People’s Minds”

By Megan MacIver on Feb 10, 2011 | 2 Comments
To us, events like these signal a shift away from a traditional master planning process and towards a new, place-based agenda to transform our cities.
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The High Points of Placemaking: Around the World in 2010

By dkitzes on Feb 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
Looking back on 2010, we realize just how far Placemaking has come as a way to build great communities.
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