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How Markets Grow: Learning From Manhattan?s Lost Food Hub

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-25 17:08:46
All slideshow images appear courtesy of David K. O’Neil. The sun has barely risen, but the horses and delivery wagons forming a steady stream from Dey to Canal Streets since nightfall have to share the road again. Rats scurry back into the maze of wooden sheds with their vegetable scraps as an early-to-rise New Yorker walks briskly down Washington Street, market bag …

Between Walking and Wandering, Power in Presence

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-23 16:15:21
Walking and wandering are two very different things. Walking is functional; it is merely the act of getting from A to B on our own two legs. But when we wander, it is the journey–not the destination–that matters. Somewhere between these two, there has to be a happy medium. In many of today’s sprawling cities, traveling on foot can be difficult, …

Timelapse in Times Square: Tips From the Field

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-21 19:15:55
Here at PPS, William Holly Whyte?s legacy continues to inform and inspire our work, from projects with communities to our training sessions and talks. Perhaps less known, though, is his behind-the-scenes influence on our research and methodology. Swapping Holly’s Bolex camera for an iPhone timelapse app, and trilbies for bike helmets, I joined forces with Ethan Kent, Alan Grabinsky, &�Elena Madison …

?We Are the Majority! The Cars Don?t Vote!?

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-16 17:57:33
Thanks to Clarence at Streetfilms for the heads up on this: the impassioned presentation by transportation reform leader Mark Gorton during this fall’s Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place conference in Long Beach is now available in full online. If you weren’t able to make it to the conference (or if you want to relive the barnstorming closer), you can listen to …

Houston Library Plaza: Building Knowledge, Building Community

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-14 17:35:37
Children play on the central library’s “front porch” during LibroFEST / Photo: Houston Public Library Library culture in the city of Houston is undergoing an exciting shift as the Houston Public Library reconsiders its public role. Instead of thinking of its programming as needing to remain within the building?s four walls, recent efforts are pulling the activity into outdoor spaces. Building upon …

What Makes a Great Public Destination? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-11 08:45:50
How do you create a magnetic public destination like Luxembourg Gardens? Read on! / Photo: PPS In a recent blog post, entrepreneur-turned-VC Mark Suster wrote about the necessary ingredients for a city trying o develop a successful start-up community. His advice seemed applicable to any community that’s trying to create a strong local sense of place, so we’ve retrofitted his recommendations to …

Creating Common Ground in a City Divided

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-09 19:17:16
Locals mill about Silanga Field, which will soon become the Silanga Community Centre / Photo: PPS In Nairobi, Kenya, the contrast between rich and poor neighborhoods is beyond stark. �And even though half of the city?s population lives on a mere 1.5% of the total land area, in Nairobi, public space is scarce. Since the creation, by Colonial powers in 1948, of …

How Downtown Adapts to the Darkness

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-02 19:48:11
In Washington Square Park, light writers make the most of the dark / Photo: Alex Fortney On the eve of Halloween, I ventured across the East River to cycle through the eerily dark and silent streets of lower Manhattan. With Sandy?s storm surge freshly receded and my sister a refugee on my futon in Bed Stuy, we hopped on bikes and rode …

Re-Thinking Resilience: What Disasters Teach us About Community Capacity

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Placemaking Blog 2012-11-01 17:08:00
A double rainbow shines over Lower Manhattan on the day after Hurricane Sandy / Photo: Kurt Deitrich via Instagram PPS has been working�extensively�over the last year�with Peter Smith, the Chief Executive Officer of the Adelaide City Council in Australia�to create new models of�governance�and organizational�culture that are more supportive of Placemaking, and�institutionalize�Placemaking principles, tools and process. Peter has written a paper that we …

Community Resilience, Post-Sandy: Share Your Stories

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-30 20:00:39
In Brooklyn, Coney Island’s Luna Park and iconic Boardwalk were completely submerged. / Photo: @NEnglandWx via Twitter During and after a natural disaster, we truly see the value of community, up close and personal. Neighbors band together to help each other, providing shelter, supplies, and comfort to those who are less-prepared. The bravery shown by first responders drives the point home; seeing …

Place Capital: Re-connecting Economy With Community

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-28 17:04:59
At Cleveland’s Market Square Park, local residents, businesses, and leaders have invested heavily in Place Capital. / Photo: PPS ?We’ve been wrong for the last 67 years,? Mark Gorton, founder of OpenPlans, announced in his closing address at last month?s Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place (PWPB) conference. ?Ok. Time to admit it, and move on! We have completely screwed up transportation in …

Citizen Placemakers: Elizabeth Hamby & Hatuey Ramos Ferm�n Use Art to Bring People Together

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-24 16:00:12
Meet Hatuey and Elizabeth! Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos Ferm�n are people connectors. As artists, activists, and Bronxites, their creative collaborations are all about gathering information from neighbors and presenting it in ways that allow communities to better understand themselves and the urban spaces they create. The two have worked in all kinds of public spaces, from major thoroughfares and street corners …

Reflections From an Engineer on Advocacy for Transportation Reform

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-23 16:43:33
The Long Beach Convention Center, site of Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place 2012 / Photo: PPS It is hard to believe that it has already been six weeks since we convened Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place 2012. The conference inspired a multitude of ideas, forged new partnerships, and reinforced existing ones. The tone was mostly upbeat; however, owing to the frustration of …

Observing the South Street Seaport?s Soundscapes: Holly Whyte Revisited

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-18 18:30:48
A map of the area under observation. William “Holly” Whyte?s studies have helped us understand how people interact in public spaces. The studies, however, were performed during the 1970s, before there was such a strong presence of electronic media as there is right now. Inspired by Holly’s methods and curious to determine how speakers affect the use of public space, I recently …

?I Would Let My Kids Walk to School, But??

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-12 15:24:38
Last month, at Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place, I sat in on the session “Sh*t Parents Say and What Kids Want: Safe Routes to School,” which opened with the rather charming video posted above. Created by NJ Safe Routes with support from NJDOT and the FHWA, it features common responses echoed by parents when they’re asked why they don’t let their …

For Great Public Art, Bring in the Public

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-10 19:47:47
A dance troupe performs in the Andrew Freedman Home during No Longer Empty's "This Side of Paradise" / Photo: NLE Since ceasing operations as a grand retirement home in the 1980s, the Andrew Freedman Home had been standing quietly inconspicuous on its spacious lot off the Bronx?s famed Grand Concourse. Just a handful of activities had been taking place on-site, mostly in …

Whom Does Design Really Serve?

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-03 16:32:40
Welcome to Canada's "best" new public space. You can tell people are proud of the design, because no one wants to mess it up by actually using it. / Photo: Fred Kent Professionals are against participation because it destroys the arcane privileges of specialization, unveils the professional secret, strips bare incompetence, multiplies responsibilities and converts them from the private into the social. …

If You Want New Solutions, Give The Problem-Solvers New Problems

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Placemaking Blog 2012-10-02 16:48:06
The Urban-to-Rural Transect allows for a much wider variety of street types than many road design guides. ?Street design manuals and land use plans are the moulds that our cities come out of,? noted Ryan Snyder during a presentation on the Model Design Manual for Living Streets at the Congress for New Urbanism?s Transportation Summit, which took place last month in Long …

Learning About Placemaking: You Can?t Do it Alone!

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Placemaking Blog 2012-09-27 19:54:35
PPS President Fred Kent leads a tour of Times Square during a Placemaking training / Photo: PPS Every spring and summer, we welcome people from all over the world?architects, planners, developers, academics, city officials, advocates, activists, engaged citizens?to our offices in Manhattan for our Placemaking Training programs. While we offer several different training programs that can be tailored to different types of …

Placemakers Speak Up: the DOT Wants Your Performance Measures

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Placemaking Blog 2012-09-26 21:10:51
The right performance measures can make great streets for all users as ubiquitous as the American arterial highway / Photo: karmacamilleeon via Flickr The new transportation bill, Moving Ahead with Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), became law in the US on July 6th. Since then, MAP-21 has spawned a series of mini-riots in cyberspace. �Every group of professionals and advocates seems …

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