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Want to Apply for Free Technical Assistance? Watch the Webinar!
Did you miss the webinar we had this week about applying for the technical assistance we’re offering under the U.S. EPA’s Building Blocks program? Never fear, we’ve got an archived copy that you can...
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Are Complete Streets Incomplete?
“The desire to go ‘through’ a place must be balanced with the desire to go ‘to’ a place.” — Pennsylvania and New Jersey DOTs’ 2007 “Smart Transportation Guide.” The “complete streets” movement has...
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Mapping the Future of San Antonio’s Downtown, Digitally
Food trucks. Sidewalk repairs. Flower vendors. More downtown residential development. Retail at street level. Dog runs. Dedicated bikeways. Fountains and sprinklers for kids to play in. These are just...
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Submit Your Proposal for the 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference!
The 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference, to be held September 10–13 of next year in the bike-happy city of Long Beach, Ca., is starting to take shape, and you can be a part of it. Do you have a proposal...
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10 Communities Selected to Receive Technical Assistance
Livability Solutions are pleased to announce the 10 communities selected to receive free technical assistance this year, thanks to a grant to Project for Public Spaces from the United States...
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Levels of Service and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our...
Would you use a rototiller to get rid of weeds in a flowerbed? Of course not. You might solve your immediate goal of uprooting the weeds — but oh, my, the collateral damage that you would do. Yet when...
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Wider, Straighter, and Faster Not the Solution for Older Drivers
This response to a new report from AASHTO and TRIP on safety issues for older drivers was written by Gary Toth, senior director of transportation initiatives for Project for Public Spaces, and...
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Early Bird Registration for Pro Walk / Pro Bike 2012: "Pro Place" is Now Open
A sharrow points the way toward Long Beach's iconic Villa Riviera / Photo: waltarrrrr via Flickr With so much attention focused on a certain conference in Long Beach last week, we want to make sure...
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Complete Streets: One Size Does Not Fit All
Gary Toth – Senior Director, Transportation Initiatives, Project for Public Spaces from Clean Air Partnership on Vimeo. Last month Gary Toth spoke at the Complete Streets Forum in Toronto about the...
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It’s a Good Week to be a Bicyclist
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who prefers to travel around on two wheels, this is a very good week to be you! No matter your reason for riding, there’s something interesting happening in...
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How “Small Change” Leads to Big Change: Social Capital and Healthy Places
Families peruse stands offering a variety of fresh foods at a farmers market in downtown Milwaukee / Photo: Ethan Kent According to Dr. Richard Jackson, a pioneering public health advocate and former...
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A Revolution in Placemaking
Since the Project for Public Spaces was founded in 1975,we have worked in thousands of communities around the world to help people shape their public spaces to create great Places, where locals feel a...
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How Walking and Biking Add Value to Your Community and Change the System: An...
CNU's John Norquist 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...
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After 30 Years of Bike/Ped Advocacy, How Far Have We Come?
Bicyclists fill a street during a Critical Mass ride in Vancouver / Photo: David Pritchard via Flickr In 1980, the very first Pro Bike conference was convened in Asheville, North Carolina. At the time,...
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How to Connect Designers & Advocates: An Interview with AASHTO’s John Horsley...
AASHTO's John Horsley (above) and Jim McDonnell (below) AASHTO’s Executive Director, John Horsley, and Program Director for Engineering, Jim McDonnell, joined PPS’s Gary Toth and Mina Keyes for a...
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Bringing the Benefits of the Urban to the Suburban: An Interview with Mayor...
Mayor Hsueh (left) poses with Jen Laurita of the League of American Bicyclists at BikeFest this past May. / Photo: Shing-Fu Hsueh The Township of West Windsor in Mercer County, New Jersey is home to...
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How Bicycling Advocacy is Changing Today: An Interview with Kit Keller
Kit Keller Kit Keller, Executive Director of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) chatted with us recently about her organization’s presence at Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place,...
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Halting Freeways & Blazing Trails: An Interview With BikePed Guru Tedson Meyers
Tedson Meyers I recently had the opportunity to chat, via Skype, with Tedson Meyers. Tedson is the kind of person who has accomplished so much, and been involved with so many organizations, it’s hard...
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Book Review: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Click to purchase from Powell’s Jeff Speck’s new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, is worth a read for its acerbic wit, alone. The author fits a remarkable...
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Streets as Places Webinar Recording Now Available Online
Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) and the Placemaking movement make great bedfellows. That’s what PPS believes, and apparently over 800 practitioners and policymakers agree. Eight hundred was the...
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