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INTRODUCTION
CONCEPTS
Rather than develop open guidelines, the PDDP team developed a set of
concepts that formed into specific projects that could convey community
ambitions and methods for implementation. Downtowns are a set of complex
interactions between urban systems that involve physical infrastructure, such
as roadway surfaces, utilities, sidewalks, and signaling equipment, but also
programs, such as city administrative processes, such as parking enforcement,
maintenance, and economic development. These projects intend to reframe
the historic and existing efforts in the city with contemporary logics of
economic and ecological stainability along with simple pragmatic observations
to help systems work better together, to help pedestrians, bicycles and
public transportation share priority on roadways, and offer ways in which the
character of the city can express itself.
These were presented in stages as they were developing: first to the Technical
Advisory Committee on August 3, 2010, then to the Pawtucket Foundation’s
board, one of the sponsoring organizations, on September 8, followed by a
full community-wide meeting on September 28. The community meeting was
approximately two hours in length and included many questions from the
audience. The presentation was posted to the project website and people were
asked to make comments online as well as to join lunches once a month with
the project team leader, Maia Small.
The projects of the PDDP are:
THE TURNPIKES
THE EXCHANGE
“P”ARKING
RIVERWAY
DOWNTOWN GUIDANCE
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