Levels of Service and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets?
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.
- Project for Public Spaces and our partners at Livability Solutions are pleased to announce the 10 communities selected to receive free technical assistance this year, thanks…
Submit Your Proposal for the 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference!
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.
- Digital Placemaking expands and enhances the work that PPS does face-to-face with community members and municipal officials to create great places and to plan for more livable, sustainable communities.
- Complete streets policies are a great start, but they are not enough to make “streets as places.”
Want to Apply for Free Technical Assistance? Watch the Webinar!
Did you miss the webinar this week about applying for the technical assistance we’re offering under the U.S. EPA’s Building Blocks program? Never fear, we’ve got an archived copy!
- Interested in applying for our free technical assistance funded by an EPA grant, but have questions? We’re pleased to announce an upcoming webinar on the subject.
Apply Now for Free Technical Assistance from PPS and Livability Solutions!
Has your community set goals for achieving improved livability, smart growth, or sustainability? Are you running into barriers in achieving these goals? We can help!
- Placemakers need to be playing a larger, complementary role in the creation of transit-oriented developments, because creating better places will benefit everyone involved.
- Philadelphia is joining the ever-growing group of American cities leading the way toward livable streets.
- We've built our way into a terrible predicament. That doesn't mean that things can't change.
- Want to make your streets better for all users? Well, we've got something you can use.