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The Great Neighborhood Book Voted in the Top 10 Planning Books for 2007 by Planetizen

Planetizen has named PPS/Jay Walljasper's The Great Neighborhood Book as one of its top 10 planing books of 2007.  http://www.planetizen.com/books/2008

Also, Urban Land magazine recently reviewed The Great Neighborhood Book in the November/December 2007 issue. Click here to read the review.

The Great Neighborhood Book also received an honorable mention on the American Booksellers Association's list of books about promoting local businesses.




01:24 PM, 30 Jan 2008 by Rebecca Dahl
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The Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medal Nomination Process is Now Open [www.rockfound.org]

The Rockefeller Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal on its website through February 1, 2008. The 2008 Rockefeller Foundation Jane Jacobs Medals will recognize two living individuals whose creative vision for the urban environment has significantly contributed to the vibrancy and variety of New York City.

Click here for the full  press release

Click here for the The 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal Nomination Form

11:35 AM, 11 Jan 2008 by Rebecca Dahl
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"New urban center" at Old Med Campus [www.denverpost.com]

A movie theater, hotel and market all are part of the plan for the redevelopment of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center site at Colorado Boulevard and East Ninth Avenue.

The plan, to be unveiled next week, includes up to 1,200 residential units, 150,000 square feet of retail space and about 500,000 square feet of office space.

"It really becomes kind of the urban center for all those surrounding neighborhoods," said Marcus Pachner, who is working with developer Shea Neighbors, part of Shea Properties, on the project.

02:02 PM, 02 Jan 2008 by Rebecca Dahl
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University of Hawai‘i and Hunt Development Group Agreement Advances UH West O‘ahu Campus Plans [home.businesswire.com]

HONOLULU -- A signing ceremony for the sale of 298-acres at Kapolei between the University of Hawai‘i and Hunt Development Group was held earlier this week in Bachman Hall with University President David McClain, UH West O‘ahu Chancellor Gene Awakuni, Chris Hunt and Steve Colon of Hunt Development Group.

"The new UH West O‘ahu campus will go a long way towards meeting the needs of the growing Leeward community; today's agreement with Hunt brings that vision one step closer to reality," said McClain.

 

12:58 PM, 05 Sep 2007 by Rebecca Dahl
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University of Calgary West Campus Plans Unveiled [gauntlet.ucalgary.ca]

The master plan for the development of University of Calgary's West Campus was revealed at two open houses.  Bill Chomik, principal architect, said "It will be very mixed-use--everything will be there and it will have the flavour of a university town."

 

08:55 AM, 26 Jun 2007 by Katie Salay
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Public Wants Space, Not Style, Architects Told [www.bdonline.co.uk]

Policymakers are ignoring the wishes of local people and exaggerating the importance of “metropolitan” urban design in creating successful public spaces, according to a new report, the Social Value of Public Spaces.  

“Most public spaces that people use are local spaces they visit regularly, often quite banal in design, or untidy in their activities or functions, such as street markets and car boot sales,” the report said.

07:23 AM, 23 Apr 2007 by Katie Salay
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Farmers' Market Sets Up on College Campus [news.bbc.co.uk]

A farmers' market has been invited to set up on campus by the University of the West of England (UWE) in a bid to get students to eat healthily.

07:09 AM, 23 Apr 2007 by Katie Salay
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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Award to Honor Jane Jacobs [www.nysun.com]

The Rockefeller Foundation announced the creation of the Jane Jacobs Medal, an award that will recognize individuals whose creative vision for the urban environment has significantly contributed to the vibrancy and variety of New York City.

The medal will be given annually to two people: one who has made a lifetime contribution and another who is at the start of a promising career.

The Foundation is accepting nominations through March 2, 2007 on its website.

 

08:33 AM, 09 Feb 2007 by Katie Salay
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Rural Colleges Seek New Edge and Urbanize [www.nytimes.com]

For decades, colleges in rural areas of the country embraced a pastoral ideal, presenting themselves as oases of scholarship surrounded by nothing more distracting than lush farmland and rolling hills. But many officials at such institutions have decided that students today want something completely different: urban buzz.

08:04 AM, 07 Feb 2007 by Katie Salay
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Smart-Growth Overhaul at University of Houston Includes Converting 62 Parking Lots to Mixed-Use Structures [www.bdcnetwork.com]

Inspired by the example of Columbia University in New York, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and other urban colleges that are improving campuses and "their gritty surroundings," the University of Houston (UH) is planning a similar smart-growth overhaul of its 550-acre main campus, whose 62 parking lots will be converted into garages, classrooms, offices, dense housing, shops, and restaurants.

08:28 AM, 03 Jan 2007 by Katie Salay
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A College Without a Town Builds One [www.chicagotribune.com]

Unlike many other colleges that have grown up around a town, the University of Connecticut is located near a town that is not much more than handfull of business in a strip mall. To make the school more appealing to students who are looking for off-campus options for shopping, dining and entertainment, UConn is planning to construct a new town.

07:58 AM, 03 Jan 2007 by Katie Salay
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2007 Rudy Bruner Award - Call for Entries [www.brunerfoundation.org]

CALL FOR ENTRIES
2007 RUDY BRUNER AWARD

About the Rudy Bruner Award:

The Rudy Bruner Award is given to urban places that demonstrate the successful integration of effective process, meaningful values and good design. RBA winners are distinguished by their social, economic and contextual contributions to the urban environment, and often provide innovative solutions to our cities’ most challenging problems.

The RBA awards one Gold Medal of $50,000 and four Silver Medals of $10,000 each.

Case studies of winners are published on line at www.brunerfoundation.org and in a book distributed by the Bruner Foundation.

2007 Selection Committee:
  • Mayor Manny Diaz, Miami, FL
  • Reese Fayde, CEO, Living Cities: National Community Development Initiative, NY
  • Reed Kroloff, Dean of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans
  • David Perry, CEO, Great Cities Institute, Chicago
  • Josephine Ramirez, Director of Planning, The Music Center, Los Angeles
  • Robert Kroin, Chief Architect, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston
For more information or to receive an application, contact:

Bruner Foundation
130 Prospect Street
Cambridge, MA  02139
Ph. 617-492-8401, Ext. 184
Fax 617-876-4002
Email: application@brunerfoundation.org
Download the application: www.brunerfoundation.org

The application deadline is December 18, 2006.

Please provide your name, title, company or organization, full address and daytime phone and/or fax number on all application requests. Please let us know how you learned about the Award.


11:59 AM, 27 Sep 2006 by Katie Salay
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UConn Decides to Build Its Own College Town [www.nytimes.com]

Colleges have traditionally tempted top students with ivy-covered campuses, towering Gothic buildings and up-to-date student centers. But nowadays, there is a sense that a beautiful campus is not enough. An alluring college town is seen as necessary as well.

02:09 PM, 10 Aug 2006 by Katie Salay
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The Future of Campuses [money.cnn.com]

In recent years a number of schools across the country, from large public universities to private institutions, have begun to rethink and revamp the current face of the college campus.

08:53 AM, 07 Aug 2006 by Shin-pei Tsay
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Jane Jacobs, Renowned Urban Activist, Dies at 89 [www.nytimes.com]

Jane Jacobs, the writer and thinker who brought penetrating eyes and ingenious insight to the sidewalk ballet of her own Greenwich Village street and came up with a book that challenged and changed the way people view cities, died today in Toronto, where she lived. She was 89.

02:51 PM, 25 Apr 2006 by Katie Salay
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Urban Colleges Learn to be Good Neighbors [www.washingtonpost.com]

A description of how U. Penn, Yale, Columbia, Clark University, and others have learned the value of investing in their surrounding neighborhoods and "making a connection with local civic life."

07:10 AM, 09 Mar 2006 by Phil Myrick
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