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How Granville Island Came to Be

By Lino Siracusa on Sep 11, 2012 | 2 Comments

This is a guest post by the authors of the People+Place blog.

Over the years, Granville Island has received much attention from urban planners, developers, architects and Placemakers as a successful model for brownfield redevelopment. Truly successful places—those that appeal to our minds, hearts and souls—offer us a way to connect with [...]

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Halting Freeways & Blazing Trails: An Interview With BikePed Guru Tedson Meyers

By Brendan Crain on Sep 10, 2012 | 7 Comments

I recently had the opportunity to chat, via Skype, with Tedson Meyers. Tedson is the kind of person who has accomplished so much, and been involved with so many organizations, it’s hard to introduce him without feeling like you’re going to leave out all of the important parts, no matter how hard you try–so [...]

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How Bicycling Advocacy is Changing Today: An Interview with Kit Keller

By Mina Keyes on Sep 7, 2012 | 2 Comments

Kit Keller, Executive Director of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) chatted with us recently about her organization’s presence at Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place, the vital role that women have played (and continue to play) in the bicycle movement, and how walking and bicycling advocates can make the most of [...]

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How Markets Scale to Fit Communities: An Interview with Larry Lund

By Patra Jongjitirat on Sep 6, 2012 | Add Comment

A great public market doesn’t usually just happen–there are a lot of smart, dedicated people behind the scenes who work to make sure that markets are set up to serve their surrounding area. Like any public space, markets work best when they reflect the people who live nearby. They are places for buying and selling [...]

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From Government to Governance: Sustainable Urban Development & the World Urban Forum

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 30, 2012 | 3 Comments

Chances are, if you’re reading this, you care about your community. You’re involved with the daily life of the neighborhood to some degree, and if you want to get more involved, you know that there are plenty of options and resources to help you figure out where your talents would be most useful and the [...]

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Visitors to Rosenhill gather for a meal at a picnic table by the wood shed. / Photo: Patra Jongjitirat

Citizen Placemaker: Lars Sillen on Letting a Place Grow Organically

By Patra Jongjitirat on Aug 29, 2012 | Add Comment

In our Citizen Placemaker series, we chat with amazing and inspiring people from outside the architecture, planning, and government worlds (the more traditional haunts of Placemakers) whose work exemplifies how creating great places goes far beyond the physical spaces that make up our cities.

Rosenhill farm, located in rural Ekerö, Sweden, is a [...]

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Bringing the Benefits of the Urban to the Suburban: An Interview with Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh

By Mina Keyes on Aug 28, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Township of West Windsor in Mercer County, New Jersey is home to one of the busiest train stations in the country, US Route 1, and some seriously forward thinking bicycle and pedestrian development. The Township’s Mayor, Shing-Fu Hsueh, spoke with us about successes in making West Windsor more bicycle and pedestrian friendly, and efforts [...]

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Your City is a Cultural Center: A Review of the ‘Spacing Out’ Forum

By Natalia Radywyl on Aug 27, 2012 | Add Comment

What do the Lower East Side’s finest scaffolding, North Brooklyn churches, a chocolate factory, and the Staten Island Ferry have in common with something called Physio-expresso? All were on the roster when artists, art administrators, community leaders, urbanists, researchers and policy makers gathered last week in Fort Greene’s South Oxford Space for the [...]

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How to Connect Designers & Advocates: An Interview with AASHTO’s John Horsley & Jim McDonnell

By Gary Toth on Aug 20, 2012 | 2 Comments

AASHTO’s Executive Director, John Horsley, and Program Director for Engineering, Jim McDonnell, joined PPS’s Gary Toth and Mina Keyes for a discussion about the state of the bicycling and walking program and how to make better connections between designers in state, county and city DOTs and bikeped advocates.

John, a native of the Northwest, [...]

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The Perth Cultural Centre is seen here in full bloom during CHOGM 2011 / Photo: Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority

Creativity & Placemaking: Building Inspiring Centers of Culture

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 16, 2012 | 13 Comments

As much as we prize creativity in cities today, the cultural centers that we’ve built to celebrate it rarely hit the mark. Culture is born out of human interaction; it therefore cannot exist without people around to enjoy, evaluate, remix, and participate in it. So why do our cultural centers so often turn inward, away [...]

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What the Environment & Mobility Mean for the Nation’s Fastest-Growing Demographic

By Mina Keyes on Aug 14, 2012 | Add Comment

Kathy Sykes, Senior Advisor of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Aging Initiative, spoke with us recently about the connections between the environment, our aging population, and the importance of creating walkable communities. She shared with us what she thinks those interested in the environment and aging in place will gain from attending Pro [...]

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How does Placemaking strengthen sustainability efforts, you ask? Great places make people feel like a part of a community that's worth sustaining! / Photo: Fred Kent

Placemaking Connects People to the Environment by Connecting Them to Each Other

By Project for Public Spaces on Aug 13, 2012 | 5 Comments

The dialogue generated around the idea of “Placemaking as a New Environmentalism” is showing that this matter of how to engage with building sustainable spaces and places resonates with people across professions. In particular, Kaid Benfield’s articles from earlier this year, Is placemaking a ‘new environmentalism’? and Smart growth is a start. [...]

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