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How Placemaking Brings Biking and Walking Infrastructure to Life

By Gary Toth On August 1, 2012 · Add Comment
In 2011, the Project for Public Spaces agreed to become partners with the National Center for Biking and Walking (NCBW) in organizing and sponsoring the Pro Walk/ Pro Bike conference. This was not an easy or quick decision. The idea first came to life in a conversation over a few beers between me and my [...]
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Why We Need a Little More Chaos: An Interview With Andy Clarke

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On July 30, 2012 · Add Comment
  League of American Bicyclists President Andy Clarke shared his thoughts and experiences with us at PPS on what bicycling means as a movement and how it has changed over the last 25 years. Andy, having been a part of the movement in the US since it involved just a handful of eager cyclists, [...]
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Bridging the Gap Between Transportation & Community Health

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On July 27, 2012 · Add Comment
While serving as Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kate Kraft contributed to setting up the successful New Jersey FIT: Future In Transportation program at the New Jersey Department of Transportation. She currently works as a Community Health and Wellness Consultant and serves on the board of the Read Full Article →
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Interview with Mikael Colville-Andersen by Melissa Balmer of Women On Bikes SoCal

By Pro Walk / Pro Bike: Pro Place On July 23, 2012 · 1 Comment
Mikael Colville Andersen will be a keynote speaker at the Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place 2012 conference in Long Beach California this September, and a special guest at Women on Bikes SoCal’s urban bike fashion show Cycle Chic: Past, Present & Future….a Celebration of Dressing for the Destination on September 13th. [...]
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Gazelles & the Art of Placemaking

By Charlie Gandy On June 25, 2012 · Add Comment
What happens when local small businesses bring a healthy dose of creative talent and out-of-the-box thinking to their entrepreneurial mix? What happens when they see themselves as progressive artisans and thought leaders and feel empowered to spread their enthusiasm with fellow local business owners? Business zones in cities and towns that were once depressed and/or [...]
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PWPB2012 preview: Draft Conference Schedule

By Mark Plotz On June 1, 2012 · Add Comment
Click for a larger version of the conference schedule. Here is our preliminary conference schedule for the week of Monday to Thursday, September 10-13, 2012. PWPB vets will notice the addition of a poster session on Monday, just after registration opens. Our conference will last until 1:30 pm on Thursday, at which point [...]
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PWPB2012 preview: Merrily We Roll Along

By Mark Plotz On May 29, 2012 · Add Comment
The latest issue of Scientific American uses the goodwill tour of Google’s self-driving car as occasion to review our evolving psychology with respect to whom or what holds dominion over our streets. To review: In the 1920s: hit someone with your car, you will get what is coming to you. Today: [...]
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Taking a moment to thank our conference sponsors…

By Mark Plotz On May 21, 2012 · Add Comment
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Bike to Work Day 2012: Benchmarking our progress

By Mark Plotz On May 18, 2012 · Add Comment
Baldwin County, Alabama. From this line up, pick out the bike advocates who’re guilty of doing all the heavy lifting, being fearless, and not taking ‘no’ for an answer. Happy Bike to Work Day! The opportunity to celebrate BTWD on two wheels was a welcome relief from all the other biker holidays I [...]
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PWPB2012 preview: Public Bike Sharing

By Mark Plotz On May 17, 2012 · Add Comment
People chatting at a demo bike share station in New York City / Photo: Planetgordon.com via Flickr Nearly a year ago, the National Center for Bicycling & Walking, and Project for Public Spaces became one. Since then, in the ventures that followed, the perspectives of each organization have meshed (often) [...]
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PWPB2012 preview: The 17 percenters

By Mark Plotz On May 9, 2012 · Add Comment
Is this golden bicycle seen at a Bike to School Day press event on Capitol Hill: A) a prime example of the profligate federal spending on bikes, bikers, and bike paths; B) the prize for the Washington DC school that has the most bike riders; or C) gold on the outside/chocolatey in the [...]
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PWPB2012 preview: High School Safe Routes to School

By Mark Plotz On May 8, 2012 · Add Comment
Principals that bike have students that bike. This is Red Pine ES in Eagan MN on a brisk April morning. Principal Gary Anger embraces bicycling to school. The SRTS program at Red Pine started as a traffic management program because so many parents in cars were clogging the school’s parking lot that the [...]
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Scenes from Sanibel

By Mark Plotz On April 30, 2012 · Add Comment
We go on vacation to get away from work (fail!) and to experience something we can’t find at home. Sunshine, the beach, and that mouse are Florida’s primary attractions. But the opportunity to bicycle everywhere is an added allure in the case of Sanibel because many people who vacation here simply don’t have that where [...]
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PWPB2012 goes on vacation

By Mark Plotz On April 27, 2012 · Add Comment
One hundred and thirty-five days until Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2012: Pro Place opens in Long Beach. There will be pyrotechnics and a flyover by the Blue Angels. For the kiddies there will be a petting zoo with free pony rides and cotton candy.Actually, there won’t be any of that thanks to that infamous GSA meeting [...]
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PWPB2012: Speed Kills — Urbanism

By Mark Plotz On April 24, 2012 · Add Comment
Wider, straighter, faster… safer? Wha??? If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention. That quote works well as a bumpersticker, but after reading about a new study on the link between car crashes and low income neighborhoods, one has to wonder whether the automobile is the appropriate conveyance for a message about injustice. Read Full Article →
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