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FOR RELEASE: Pittsburgh Announced as the Host City for the Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference in 2014

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On September 18, 2012 · Add Comment
Pittsburgh, PA—Mayor Ravenstahl and the National Center for Bicycling & Walking (a program of Project for Public Spaces) are proud to announce the City of Pittsburgh will host the Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2014 conference. Pro Walk/Pro Bike, convened every two years, is the premiere active transportation conference in North America, hosting nearly 1,000 advocates, planners, [...]
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Advocate and OpenPlans founder Mark Gorton fires up the crowd during closing remarks. / Photo: PPS

Overheard @ PWPB: Thursday, Sept. 13

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On September 13, 2012 · Add Comment
“We can no longer except the crumbs and incremental change.” –RWJF Senior Program Officer and former NCBW/PWPB director Sharon Roerty during the closing plenary   “I want to see people checking in more often on streets, sidewalks, and transit when they’re walking and traveling around the city–treating buses and sidewalks as destinations.” –Alissa Walker, speaking [...]
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Get Fit Hawaii's Bev Brody leads the PWPB crowd in some chair-bound aerobics / Photo: PPS

Overheard @ PWPB: Wednesday, Sept. 12

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On September 13, 2012 · 1 Comment
“Thank you for inviting a Godless, socialist, Pinko-commie European!” –Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of Copenhagenize, during the opening session “You can’t build your way out of congestion, but you can build congestion out of the road.” –Elly Blue, speaking on the subject of Bikenomics “Latinos come to the US and move to the suburbs. There’s no [...]
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Overheard @ PWPB: Tuesday, Sept. 11

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On September 12, 2012 · Add Comment
“We call ourselves the most bicycle-friendly city in the US–not out of hubris or a belief that we actually are…It’s a continual reminder of what we want to be, like with our children, when we tell them they’re the greatest at everything even though we know they’re not quite there yet.” –Long Beach [...]
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A Quick Guide to Conference Registration

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On September 11, 2012 · Add Comment
Many of you made it out to the Long Beach Convention Center tonight for the opening reception (presented by Bikes Belong) for this year’s conference–but for those who haven’t we wanted to put together a quick step-by-step guide to navigating the LBCC tomorrow morning so that everyone can get checked in with plenty of [...]
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Bringing the Benefits of the Urban to the Suburban: An Interview with Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On September 4, 2012 · Add 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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Redefning the Public Realm: S, M, L: Brian Ulaszewski at TEDxSoCal

By Gary Toth On August 31, 2012 · Add Comment
Brian Ulaszewski is the energetic and talented  Executive Director of the newly formed nonprofit in Long Beach called CityFabrick.  Brian is an architect and urban designer who is working to bring the principles of Holly Whyte and Placemaking to his sunny city on the Pacific, which will host the Pro Walk/Pro Bike: [...]
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How My Son Began Walking to School

By Gail Carlson On August 28, 2012 · 1 Comment
For nearly half a decade, I have worked to convince parents, kids, principals, school districts, and cities to support and encourage students to walk or bike to school. Walking, for most of us, is the simplest, most natural form of transportation.  And the health and environmental benefits are well documented.  But few American parents choose [...]
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Experiencing the Flavor and Vitality of Long Beach

By David M Nelson On August 23, 2012 · 1 Comment
Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place is more than just the premier conference on walking, biking and Placemaking. It is also an opportunity to experience the places and spaces that spring up when streets are all about people.  Whether it’s a chic bistro with deals for cyclists or a thriving arts district, practitioners and advocates alike [...]
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How to Connect Designers & Advocates: An Interview with AASHTO’s John Horsley & Jim McDonnell

By Gary Toth On August 21, 2012 · Add Comment
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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What the Environment & Mobility Mean for the Nation’s Fastest-Growing Demographic

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On August 17, 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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Lowenthal, in the white sweater, at the opening of the Green Sharrowed Bike Lane in Belmont Shores. Photo: LA County Department of Public Health

In Long Beach, Suja Lowenthal Takes Her “One Shot” to Create Inclusive Transportation

By Brian Addison On August 14, 2012 · Add Comment
Cross-posted from Streetsblog LA There is a reason Suja Lowenthal is speaking at the Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place Conference—and it goes beyond her being a policy maker for Long Beach, where the conference is going to be held this year. It’s because she holds a simple streetscape philosophy: if you gear urban design [...]
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How Walking and Biking Add Value to Your Community and Change the System: An Interview with John Norquist

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On August 8, 2012 · Add Comment
Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place keynote speaker John Norquist, who currently serves as the President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, spoke with us recently about the role and responsibility of decision makers, what urbanists need to learn, and what CNU’s 2012 Transportation Summit—immediately preceding Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro [...]
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After 30 Years of Bike/Ped Advocacy, How Far Have We Come?

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On August 6, 2012 · 2 Comments
In 1980, the very first Pro Bike conference was convened in Asheville, North Carolina. At the time, the movement to carve out more space for bicycling on North American streets was young, and the first conference was attended by around 100 people. Thirty-two years later, the Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place is expected to [...]
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FOR RELEASE: The Cycle Chic Movement’s Mikael Colville-Andersen a Keynote for National Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place Conference in Long Beach September 10-13, 2012

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On August 2, 2012 · Add Comment
Long Beach CA – The popular speaker and “Bicycle Anthropologist” Mikael Colville-Andersen, who launched the growing worldwide Cycle Chic movement from his Copenhagenize.com blog in 2006, will be a keynote presenter at  North America’s premiere conference for walking and biking professionals in Long Beach California September 10-13, 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place. For over [...]
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