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• James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia

  
  Web Designer Pinoy — Authority: 446
  leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, ...
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• Will 2010 Mark the Shift from the Backward-Looking and Unaffordable Electric Cars to Forward-Thinking Smart Mobility?

  
  EE/RE Investing — Authority: 91
  Cleantech Group Chairman Nicholas Parker Thinks So Tom Konrad, Ph.D. I’ve long argued that the future of mobility in the peak oil era will center on alternative modes of transport , not alternative fuels for the same old car infrastructure.  Electric cars are probably the car of the future, but the cost of ...
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• And to all a good night

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 116
  from the Cooper Square Hotel
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• The Biggest Problem in Downtown? The Sidewalks

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 537
  At lunch, Tim, Peter, and I took a meandering stroll downtown, eventually arriving at the Press Box Grill. On the way back, we took a similarly circuitous route. Tim pointed out — and we all agreed — that the sidewalks downtown are much (much) smaller than in most big cities. Rarely can you walk three abreast, and ...
  3 days ago

• A Record of Change: Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture

  
  FIVEFOOTWAY.COM — Authority: 112
  A bamboo sculpture by sciSKEW comments on the citys urban growth “ At the top of Shenzhen’s Lotus Hill, a statue of Deng Xiaoping is frozen in purposeful mid-stride. From here he gazes down on this southern Chinese boom city, teeming with 14 million inhabitants, separated from Hong Kong only by a river and a ...
  4 days ago

• Public Spaces in the New Urbanism

  
  The Urban Loft — Authority: 423
  Other than during college this is the first time I’ve lived in a place without a yard. Moving into a small apartment here in Burnaby, BC has brought about a lot of changes for us. No longer do we have a two car garage, a yard to maintain, and a house all to our own. As a matter of fact we simply got rid of all of ...
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• Andy Warhol Foundation funds bid to rehab homes near Watts Towers as live-in art objects

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 711
  The Watts House Project, a grassroots nonprofit that’s enlisting neighborhood residents and volunteer artists to turn the row of homes facing the Watts Towers into an aesthetically engaging place to visit and live, will get a $125,000 boost from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts . The grant comes ...
  5 days ago

• 18 Super Shipping Container Schools, Youth Centers and Hotels

  
  WebUrbanist — Authority: 599
  Recycled shipping containers are known to building designers and architects for their low cost and ease of use. They have been used in the construction of homes , housing developments , offices and commercial space for several years already, but there’s a new segment of architecture coming out of the woodwork to ...
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• Why I Have Been AWOL - And Upcoming Topics - Including Why the GRTC Bus Barn Sale to RRHA Sucks Rotten Eggs

  
  Melissa Savenko's Richmond Real Estate Review — Authority: 112
  I suck.  I cant believe I havent posted anything in ELEVEN days, which in the blogosphere might as well be eleven months.  Gotta stay relevant, and prolific.  My excuses: I moved, and my life is chaos; I have no Internet service; I ama Richmond native and therefore genetically incapable of driving in the barest ...
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• The Money-Losing State Fair of Texas

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 537
  For this month’s print edition of FrontBurner (which is amazing, btw), I propose that the State Fair be booted from Fair Park . The park’s very valuable 277 acres will never be developed into a year-round amusement and entertainment zone for Dallas unless the obstacle created by the Fair’s three-month set-up, ...
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• The Downtown Parking Fallacy

  
  Extraordinary Observations — Authority: 494
  Via CEOs for Cities, the Hartford Courant tells a sad story of whats happened to their downtown in the past few decades. Since 1960, the number of parking spaces in downtown Hartford increased by more that 300 percent — from 15,000 to 46,000 spaces. This change has had a profound and devastating effect on the ...
  6 days ago

• Best Statler Hilton Option: Student Housing

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 537
  We’ve wondered before in this space about what we need downtown, and my old online haunt once ran a piece with a similar mental exercise. It always struck me that many of the small ideas – bookshops, cafes, grocery stores, laundry – would follow if one big idea was brought into the downtown mix: a ...
  1 week ago

• Q&A: Andres Duany and Jeff Speck on The Smart Growth Manual

  
  Metropolis POV — Authority: 420
  Who dares say what counts as “smart” when neighborhoods evolve? Look no further than the beige-and-black cover of The Smart Growth Manual . That’s the guide to repurposing American land use, not a guide. Who could claim such authority? Look down the cover for the author credits: this is a volume “from ...
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• People Changing Places

  
  Cluster — Authority: 118
  The collaboration that turned a city square into a giant interactive performance and forum for changing public spaces. 

Aiming to encourage engagement with the arts, cultural space and public realm, YourSpace a recent temporary transformation of Exhibition Square in York was the exciting culmination of a ...
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• MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis, Part 2

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 468
  “Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main production facilities in a highly selective group of ‘global media cities’.” As I explained previously, both ...
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• Well always have ParisMon Dieu! Paris is the new Dubai?

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 116
  Quoting myself: One century ago, technology was threatening Paris withchanges that already had them talking about the "Manhattanization" ofParis. Elevators and steel frames made it possible to build higher thanbefore, railroads, subways and buses changed the concept of theneighborhood, the electric light alleviated ...
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• Steve Semes - The Future of the Past

  
  Veritas et Venustas — Authority: 116
  The general public has never forgotten that the purpose of architecture and planning is to design beautiful buildings and places that offer joy in utility, or that the purpose of historic preservation is to preserve them — not as artifacts in a museum but as living examples of the way architects and planners should ...
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• Architecture, Design and Urban Planning in the Noughts

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 459
  Im spending most of my extremely scarce free time Christmas shopping on the web and reading over best of 2009 lists. This year there are the bonus best of the decade lists, too. Ive always liked the year-end lists, and Ill have my own in a day or two, but the decade lists I find less interesting. One exception comes ...
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• Can Traffic Congestion Be Good for Dallas?

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 537
  Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is looking for money to fund new road construction projects, and the need for them seems rather clear. As Rodger Jones points out on the DMN’s transportation blog , three Dallas area roads make the top 10 in a list of congested Texas roadways . But is traffic congestion necessarily a bad ...
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• MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 468
  Hamburg has its HafenCity, London transformed the Canary Wharf area into a new business district, and Copenhagen built a new cultural center at former navy base. Over the last decade, spatial redevelopment of former naval areas and harbors came on the front-line in spatial planning in Western European cities. The same ...
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