Are you looking to create better streets in your neighborhood or community? Have you gotten discouraged by bureaucratic red tape or simple lack of communication? Or, are you passionate about great streets but struggling to get neighbors or city officials to share your enthusiasm or vision for people-centered public spaces? From creating a vision to building political buy-in to sustaining momentum, we created a roadmap to help you advocate for better streets in your community. The toolkit is available for free on our website, and will be presented at Walk/Bike/Places 2018* this September!
 *If you plan to join us for Walk/Bike/Places 2018 in New Orleans, be sure to register soon! We are 6 weeks away from the event, and the current rate ends on August 17th!
More from the PPS blog:
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- Let's Reconnect with Our Streets (NYTimes)
- Greening Vacant Lots Improves Depression (Planetizen)
- How Cars Divide America (CityLab)
- Some Food Stamps Recipients May Soon Lose Access to Farmers Market Benefits (Washington Post)
- Refugees Helping to Bring More Fresh Food to the Far North (NextCity)
- "This Waterfront Needs a Highway": The Huge Mistake Cities Keep Making (The Guardian)
- Making a "Safe" City Safer for Women: Lessons from Madrid (CityLab)
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| In a city the street must be supreme. It is the first institution of the city. The street is a room by agreement, a community room, the walls of which belong to the donors, dedicated to the city for common use. Its ceiling is the sky. Today, streets are disinterested movements not at all belonging to the houses that front them. So you have no streets. You have roads, but you have no streets.
— Louis Kahn, The Street
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 Pershing Square
Los Angeles, CA
One of the most iconic spots in L.A., Pershing Square was re-designed more than 25 years ago to become an active hub for people of all ages, and a part of what locals call the "Downtown Los Angeles Renaissance." Weekly farmers markets are now one of the star attractions for the space—along with an ice rink in winter and a concert series in warmer months!
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- Job: Program Manager, Community Builders (Glenwood Springs, CO)
- CFP: Center for Urban Pedagogy's "Making Policy Public" (Deadline: August 20, 2018)
- Grant: Patronicity and SVN Communities Program (Chicago, IL)
- Event: Gehl Institute Tools for Change Masterclass (Copenhagen, Denmark: August 22-24, 2018)
- Webinar: AmericaWalks Pedestrians Are People Too: The Criminalization of Walking (September 12, 2018)
- Conference: Walk/Bike/Places 2018 (New Orleans, LA: September 16-19, 2018)
- Conference: NACTO Designing Cities 2018 (Los Angeles, CA: October 1-4, 2018)
- PPS Training: "How to Create Successful Markets" (NYC: October 12-13, 2018)
- Conference: EDRA50, Sustainable Urban Environments (Brooklyn, NY: May 22-26, 2019)
- Conference: 10th International Public Markets Conference (London, UK: June 6-8, 2019)
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NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! The 2018 Revised Edition of How to Turn a Place Around, PPS's comprehensive guide to placemaking, with new tools and case studies, a vibrant updated design, and a brand new section on how to run a successful placemaking process.
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Have something to share? Please send your placemaking stories, news, job openings, grants awards, calls for proposals, and events to [email protected]. We'll be sure to give you a tip of the hat.
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