Jay Walljasper
Jay Walljasper is a Senior Fellow at PPS, as well as the Executive Editor of Ode magazine, an international news and culture magazine published from the Netherlands.
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Jay Walljasper is author of the Great Neighborhood Book and a Senior Fellow at Project for Public Spaces. He also blogs about sustainable cities for the National Geographic Green Guide and OnTheCommons.org.
My Favorite American Neighborhood
<div class="mp_drop"> Last year Project on Public Spaces and I published the <strong><em><a href="http://www.pps.org/info/products/Books_Videos/great_neighborhood_book">Great Neighborhood Book,</a></em></strong> which offers hundreds of ideas from around the world about making community improvements on issues ranging from crime prevention to environmental restoration. Since then almost everyone I meet asks: What's your favorite neighborhood? </div> <p> I should have an answer ready. But each time the question arises, my mind starts wandering through the great places I've explored through the years. Is it the Plateau neighborhood in Montreal, where I became infatuated with cities years ago as a college student? Maybe