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Brunswick’s Placemaking Master Plan

By joshkent on Oct 10, 2012 | Add Comment

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PPS staff explain the place improvement exercise to community members in Brooklyn.

Developing Public Participation Tools in Transit Dependent Communities

By Craig Raphael on Jul 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA (2008-2010) Client: Federal Transit Administration

Engaging minority, non-English speaking, and low-income communities in transportation planning represents an enormous challenge for planners, designers, government agencies, and municipal officials alike. Low-income constituencies are more dependent on walking, biking, and using transit than other population sub-groups, yet they do not often get [...]

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Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2010 | Add Comment
Meredith, NH (2005-present). Route 3/25 does not reflect the village character of downtown Meredith. PPS is helping the community and NHDOT re-think the purpose and design of the road.
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Retrofiting Suburbia with Neighborhood Hubs

By Ethan Kent on Jan 1, 2010 | Add Comment
McKinney, TX (2008-Present). PPS helped develop and implement a concept for retrofitting single-use suburban neighborhoods with neighborhood hubs to reduce car trips and build communities.
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New Jersey’s “Future In Transportation” Program

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2010 | Add Comment
New Jersey (2004 - present). NJDOT hired PPS to help articulate the new NJFIT policy to local officials, communities and other stakeholders.
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Exhibit board for the rethinking of Broadway we led in 2006.

New York City Streets Renaissance

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
New York, NY (2005-present). In 2005, PPS co-founded The New York City Streets Renaissance campaign, a grassroots initiative that has catalyzed the transformation of the city's transportation policy and brought sweeping change to NYC streets in a few short years.
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Transit Oriented Development for the Tappan Zee Bridge Corridor

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2010 | Add Comment
Rockland and Westchester Counties, New York (2009-Present).PPS, in collaboration with Reconnecting America and the Regional Plan Association, was hired by NYSDOT to help communities along the Tappan Zee Bridge Corridor to plan for transit oriented development in corrolation with the Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction.
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Context Sensitive Solutions Website

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
(2003 - present). ContextSensitiveSolutions.org is an online clearinghouse of information about CSS created to help integrate CSS into project planning, development, and implementation in all 50 states by September 2007.
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CRA/LA Placemaking Academy

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | 4 Comments
Los Angeles, CA (2009). Gathering staff from the seven CRA planning regions around the city, as well as the Bureau of Engineering, City Planning and City DOT, the CRA hired PPS to develop and deliver a Placemaking academy-style training program.
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Our summary the ideas of the community in 2009. Many of the the ideas are now being implemented by NYCDOT.

Rethinking Grand Army Plaza

By Ethan Kent on Jan 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
Brooklyn, NY (2006-present). The Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo) was founded by PPS and a group of committed local residents. It has become a model of effective grassroots organizing and advocacy that is accomplishing many of the goals that have emerged from our work with them.
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Newark Waterfront Community Access Study

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Newark, NJ (2003). While widening McCarter Highway (Rte 21.), a major truck and commuter highway that runs along the Passaic River into Newark's Central Business District, NJDOT asked PPS to facilitate a public outreach program - the Newark Waterfront Community Access Study.
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Transportation Advocacy Publication Series

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2008 | Add Comment
Nationwide (2008). In collaboration with AARP, PPS released three transportation publications and a corresponding webinar series that address the safety, mobility and livability of streets.
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