Journal Highlights Parks as Community Places
In partnership with Places, a Forum on Environmental Design, PPS has produced a new issue of the journal dedicated to parks and the role they play as urban catalysts for renewal. The journal, which is co-produced by the University of California, Berkeley and Pratt Institute, worked with PPS over a six-month period to develop articles, a photo essay, and a fold-out timeline of Central Park.
Articles feature PPS partners and conference keynoters, including Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago, and former Bogota Mayor Enrique Penalosa, both of whom spoke at PPS's Urban Parks Institute in New York in 2001. Also featured is Steve Coleman, the director of Washington Parks and People, whose tireless efforts on behalf of parks in Washington, DC have transformed forgotten greenspaces into important community places. The Central Park timeline, produced in collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy, is the first true chronology of Central Park, and includes dozens of photos of the park, historical and current.
The journal is available from the PPS bookstore for $12.
Catching Up with San Carlos
San Carlos is one of a dozen towns on northern California's San Mateo Peninsula that PPS is currently working with to address traffic congestion and a shortage of affordable housing (see the March 2003 edition of Making Places for details).
The City of San Carlos has recenty posted a report on the proposed changes to its transit station and downtown that offers excellent insight into placemaking in action. Guided by "Four Principles for a Livable Peninsula," the report shows step-by-step how the plan was conceived and how it will be put into practice.
Click here for the full report.
