Scenic America – Partners in context sensitive solutions
A Partnership for Placemaking With Scenic America, a national non-profit based in Washington D.C. dedicated to preserving public lands from invasive development and visual blight, PPS is able to reach...
View ArticleLos Angeles Neighborhood Initiative: CD-ROM
Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative: (CD-ROM 0637; 4, 45, AVID) Rebuilding Disinvested Neighborhood “Main Streets” From the Bus Stop Up “LANI is a vision that touches everyone who encounters it. It is...
View ArticleCSS for Transportation Professionals
When engineering decisions are public policy decisions. What has happened gradually over the last fifty years — approximately since the advent of the Interstate Highway System — is the elevation of...
View ArticleOur Approach to Transportation
“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.” The power of this simple idea is that it reflects basic truths that...
View ArticleTransforming National Policy
As an element of the Streets as Places campaign, a draft agenda has been created to: Organize and align national and regional membership organizations with a similar interest in creating sustainable,...
View ArticleFeatured Transportation Projects
Project for Public Spaces’ Transportation projects have ranged from local streets to state arterials in all parts of the country and in all types of communities. Projects have consisted of everything...
View ArticleSupporting Innovation at the Community Level
While it is critical to work at the state and national levels, we also need to foster innovation at the local level, leveraging the passion and commitment of local citizens, governments, and funders....
View ArticleDeveloping Educational Tools
To be successful with transportation reform, PPS is also developing training programs, guidance materials and presentations. PPS will deploy these supporting tools and resources through education and...
View ArticleTransforming Transportation Practice
To transform transportation practice, we need to work closely with state, regional and city transportation agencies whose staff is largely responsible for street design in this country. PPS has hired...
View ArticleCompleted Activities
The following list is a sample of the accomplishments of the Thinking Beyond the Station initiative that reflects its broad-based stakeholder involvement. Pilot Transit Agency Convening: In partnership...
View ArticleTraining & Strategic Planning Projects
All over the country, state and local governments are looking to “right-size” road projects and develop transit to better support community goals and long-term sustainable visions, especially as...
View ArticleExpanding Research
Research on the connection between transportation and community is a supporting component of the Streets as Places campaign. Our research findings will be used to inform all aspects of the campaign and...
View ArticleCommunity Based Street Design
By Gary Toth & Renee Espiau “The desire to go ‘through’ a place must be balanced with the desire to go ‘to’ a place.” – Pennsylvania and New Jersey DOTs, 2008 Streets account for as much as a...
View ArticleRegional Planning & Visioning Projects
Communities that work together across their borders to address shared problems, like congestion and over-development, are more effective at managing them. PPS helps residents, municipal leaders,...
View ArticleFuture Activities
Both the Center for Transit-Oriented Development and PPS are committed to engaging in these, and similarly aligned, efforts to continue the momentum of the Thinking Beyond the Station initiative and...
View ArticleTransportation Planning Services
Training and Strategic Planning All over the country, state and local governments are looking to “right-size” road projects and develop transit to better support community goals and long-term...
View ArticlePlanning Resources
Online Transportation Planning Resources Great Streets Learn about the world’s greatest streets. Project for Public Spaces Image Database A searchable collection of thousands of categorized images of...
View ArticleCSS Links
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Building Livable Highways (AASHTO site) Center for Community Change...
View ArticleTransit & Station Area Planning Projects
Great bus stops and train stations are natural focal points for communities – they are places where people gather, wait, socialize, run errands, and enjoy a refreshment or a meal on their way to and...
View ArticlePPS issue papers about transportation and Placemaking
Creating Community Places: An Antidote to Sprawl Looking for strategies to combat sprawl? Read about the PPS approach. The Road Ahead: How context-sensitive solutions will change our streets PPS and...
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