From Place to Place: Shifting the Transportation Paradigm with Placemaking
“Transportation planning can shift from being the primary engine of community degradation, to the driving force of community development. Through re-envisioning our cities, transportation systems and economies around destinations we will make feasible the more sustainable transportation modes of mass transit, walking and bicycling.”
- Streets are the largest public space in any town or city and have great community-building potential. Yet all too often they are primarily designed and…
- Creating Community Places: An Antidote to Sprawl Looking for strategies to combat sprawl? Read about the PPS approach. The Road Ahead: How context-sensitive solutions…
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Building Livable Highways (AASHTO site) Center for Community Change Conservation…
- Training and Strategic Planning All over the country, state and local governments are looking to “right-size” road projects and develop transit to better support community…
- Communities that work together across their borders to address shared problems, like congestion and over-development, are more effective at managing them. PPS helps residents, municipal…
- Conducting research on street design to move us beyond anecdotal and intuitive conclusions.
- The following list is a sample of the accomplishments of the Thinking Beyond the Station initiative that reflects its broad-based stakeholder involvement. Pilot Transit Agency…
- Developing training programs, guidance tools, and networking opportunities to influence reform efforts and best practices in community and transportation planning and design.
- Project for Public Spaces’ Transportation projects have ranged from local streets to state arterials in all parts of the country and in all types…
- “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”…
- Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative: (CD-ROM 0637; 4, 45, AVID) Rebuilding Disinvested Neighborhood “Main Streets” From the Bus Stop Up “LANI is a vision that touches…