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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...

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Los 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...

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CSS 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...

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Our 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...

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Transforming 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,...

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Featured 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...

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Supporting 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....

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Developing 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...

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Transforming 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...

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Completed 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...

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Training & 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...

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Expanding 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...

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Community 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...

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Regional 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,...

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Future 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...

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Transportation 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...

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Planning 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...

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CSS Links

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Building Livable Highways (AASHTO site) Center for Community Change...

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Transit & 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...

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PPS 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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