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If We Had $50 Million:
5 Big Ideas for Sidewalk Toronto's First Year
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Sidewalk Toronto has dedicated a staggering $50 million to the engagement and testing phase of their new tech-driven Quayside development. Naturally, we at PPS can’t help but imagine what would be possible with such a large budget dedicated to community engagement and pilot testing. So we made a list of five items that we would prioritize if we had $50 million!
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Streets are the most fundamental component of a city’s urban design, but they are not “timeless blanks”; they must shift and evolve along with the changing needs of the city and its inhabitants. In New York—despite solid efforts in recent years to rethink streets by adding bike lanes, corner curb cuts, and free Wi-Fi stations—we are still playing catch-up. What can we do to give to give NYC’s streets the overhaul they need? (New York Magazine)
Are our cities watching us? In his work with the NYC Planning Commission in 1969, Holly Whyte used meticulous observation and data collection methods to investigate human activity in the city’s public spaces. But today, machine learning stands to change the in-person foot traffic counts and time-lapse cameras that Whyte used in his pioneering "Street Life Project." With new computer vision technologies that can turn images directly into actionable data, track eyeballs on retail advertisements, and replace all kinds of “analog” urban methods with new digital versions, will this lead to increased adaptability and more “human-focused” design and urban planning? Or, is it an invasion of privacy? ( Curbed)
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More Placemaking Stories & Ideas
- The Automotive Liberation of Paris (CityLab)
- 2018: A Year to Watch in Downtown Shreveport (Shreveport Times)
- Sharing the City: 5 Takes on How We Should Create and Use Public Space (ArchDaily)
- Live from Transforming Transportation 2018: Confronting Gender Issues, “Leapfrogging” in Africa (TheCityFix)
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Walk/Bike/Places 2018 is coming up this year in New Orleans!
Submit your proposals before February 2
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Events and Opportunities
- CFP: Friends of Congress Square Park (Due: January 31, 2018)
- Grant: National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund (Deadline to submit LOI: January 31, 2018)
- Call for Applications: Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) Workshop: Rural Communities Facing Design Challenges (Informational Webinar: January 25 at 3:00pm EST, Application Deadline February 16, 2018)
- CFP: Walk/Bike/Places 2018 (Deadline: February 2, 2018)
- Conference: UN-Habitat World Urban Forum, Cities 2030 (Kuala Lumpur, February 7-13, 2018)
- Call for Applications: State of the Art Transportation Training, T4America Creative Placemaking Workshops (Deadline: February 23, 2018)
- Call for Submissions: EDRA 2018 Great Places Awards (Deadline: February 26, 2018)
- CFP: Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) Initiative (Deadline: March 30, 2018)
- Conference: 2nd Annual Complete Streets Conference, "Intersections: Creating Culturally Complete Streets" (Nashville, TN: April 3-4, 2018)
- Conference & CFP: 55th International Making Cities Livable (Ottawa, Canada: May 14-18, 2018)
- PPS Training: How to Create Successful Markets (NYC, June 1-2, 2018)
- PPS Training: Placemaking: Making It Happen (NYC, Coming Soon, Spring 2018 )
- Conference: EDRA49, "Social Equity by Design" (Oklahoma City, OK: June 6-9, 2018)
- Conference: Walk/Bike/Places 2018 (New Orleans, LA: September 16-19, 2018)
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