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from Project for Public Spaces
Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
is a world-renowned non-profit organization dedicated to creating
and sustaining public places that build communities, and has
extensive experience with the design of urban streets. They
have been a leader in training and demonstration projects
for a new approach to street and road design that is taking
place nationally - called "Context Sensitive Design"
(CSD) or "Context Sensitive Solutions" (CSS).
PPS and Glatting Jackson were asked by the McKnight Foundation
to review the design documents that have been developed for
the Lake Street reconstruction project in terms of how the
proposals do or do not support community development goals.
Glatting Jackson is a seasoned transportation planning and
traffic engineering firm focused on planning and designing
livable communities, and has worked on innovative projects
across the country.
Working together, they prepared a report summarizing their
review and recommendations for both the Lake Street Reconstruction
and the Excess Project. This report was released by the McKnight
Foundation on August 3 2004. We have obtained a copy of this
report and gladly make it available for your review, along
with other documents and visualizations we have received.
Here you can read
Please visit Project for Public Space's website,
where you can learn more about their approach and recommendations
for urban design and sustainable transportation solutions.
For more information on the McKnight initiative, the impact
it could have in the present project, and what we can do to
help implement the PPS recommendations, please contact Paul
Fate, from the Wilder Foundation, at 651.642.4059 or by email
at pdf@wilder.org
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