Urban Planning

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• Censored

  
  Candy Chang — Authority: 92
  One of these posters I made will be in the exhibit Poster4Tomorrow , a global event highlighting the censorship that still muffles citizens around the world. I got a first-hand schooling from TED Fellow Esra’a Al Shafei who can’t have her picture taken/posted for fear of being identified by various Middle ...
  5 hours ago

• Laura Strangelove on buses

  
  cellar door — Authority: 100
  Laura is in the process of getting a Masters in City Planning with a focus on Transit. Shes been into it for years, and has a soft spot for buses in particular. We recently realized that Urban Planning and Digital Strategy have so much in common that were able to send each other articles, stories and links all the ...
  8 hours ago

• On “The Specter of Condemnation” and America’s Full Metropolises

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 502
  The right not to have one’s property taken for purposes other than “public use” is one of the most basic rights afforded to American citizens in the US Constitution. Eminent domain helped build the public ...
  12 hours ago

• An East-Sider in Surrey

  
  Price Tags — Authority: 420
  Mike Klassen, the acerbic blogger at citycaucus.com , was invited out to Surrey last week to speak at a public meeting on the future of a community known as St. Helen’s Park .  ( He blogged on the subject here , also providing a link to the grassroots community group looking to resist larger ...
  17 hours ago

• Cities On Speed: a film series on megacities

  
  Cluster — Authority: 120
  The emergence of megacities over the last two decades has made it necessary to radically rethink the urbanization process. Vast urban agglomerations, the majority in developing countries and advancing economies, now home to over 50% of the world’s population, face immense economical, social and environmental ...
  21 hours ago

• José María Tomás: “nineteenth-century urban models, will not work.”

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Barcelona reporter: Famous Valencian architect José María Tomás said “nineteenth-century urban models, will not work. Today, cities have other needs. We must create spaces to live, work and enjoy. The street is changing”. He made the statement at the close of a meeting of Architects and Planners, organized ...
  21 hours ago

• £1.5 billion contract awarded for regeneration of Elephant & Castle

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 127
  London Borough of Southwark announced that they have awarded the £1.5 billion (circa A$2.7 billion) regeneration of Elephant & Castle to Lend Lease . The project is one of the most significant schemes of its type in Europe, comprising over 300,000 square metres of new build, mixed-use development, together ...
  1 day ago

• Neighborhood Group prepares study on VBML impact on redevelopment and restoration

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 420
  T he Knox Hill Neighborhood Association is preparing a report they hope to present to the council on the negative impact of the VBML (Vacant Building Maintenance License) on redevelopment and restoration efforts not only in their neighborhood but city wide. The report is expected to be complete in late January/early ...
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• ISTANBUL- Light Rail & Tram lines

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  NEW VEHICLES FOR THE TRAMLINES IN ISTANBUL: (37 of them is going to be bought in the first phase) Fransa’nın Nice kentinde düzenlenen Ulusal Kamu Taşımacılığı Fuarı’nda, (Rencontres Nationales du Transport Public) şehir içi ve şehirler arası demir yolu taşımacılığının ...
  1 day ago

• Living in China: Chinglish to get the axe in Shanghai for World Expo

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 131
  Shanghai is looking to get rid of poorly translated English signs as it readies to welcome 4 million foreign visitors to next year’s World Expo. “Pick one’s steps?”, by Itamar Medeiros Shanghai Media Group’s International Channel Shanghai (ICS) launched a campaign called “ Write It Right ” to ...
  1 day ago

• White City

  
  Price Tags — Authority: 420
  Sorry for the lack of posts.  A little of the ol’ H1N1, I think.  Like a fine wine, it lingers. But comments keep coming in.  Here’s one you might have missed from David at placemakingstudio.com: I came across the following, which I found to be thought provoking and inducive to generating commentary: “If ...
  1 day ago

• Uneven Playing Fields

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 475
  As we have written previously, one of the great evils of tax increment financing (TIF) is that it offers special advantages to the beneficiaries selected by elected officials, forcing everyone else in the market to compete at a disadvantage. Sadly, there’s a new example of how destructive this sort of policy can be. ...
  1 day ago

• Marlow, Bourne End & Cookham Light Rail

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Electrification proposal could boost light rail scheme 9:30am Sunday 29th November 2009 Comments (3) Have your say » By James Nadal » RAIL bosses have been asked to electrify the Marlow, Bourne End and Cookham track in a move which could boost the prospects of a new light rail service. Transport chiefs at ...
  2 days ago

• Putting the green in the O.C. Great Park

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 127
  latimes.com reports Emile Haddad has of what would become the site of the Orange County Great Park and the location of his biggest development project dates from 1986…… The cost and pace of work on the project, which at the moment consists of a tethered balloon ride and a small “preview” park, have been ...
  2 days ago

• A declaration of love for the city as it is

  
  Architecture Lab — Authority: 427
  Sooner or later many urban neighbourhoods have to contend with a lengthy period of decline, demolition and new construction. This interval period offers opportunities for alternative uses and new initiatives. Many of them disappear again, however, as soon as renewal is complete. A half-finished block of houses in the ...
  3 days ago

• New Downtown Tulsa Eatery

  
  Bounded Rationality — Authority: 425
  Im always happy when I see some new things going in downtown. Zorbas Greek Grill is at the Southeast corner of 6th street and Boston Ave. My son and I were adventuring downtown yesterday, walking around noting all there is to see down there. I would take him to some of my secret places I found when I was a child. ...
  3 days ago

• How come no tunnel linking

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Belfast to the rest of the UK?
  3 days ago

• GAZİANTEP - Light Rail System - u/c

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  *10km *13 stations Red line is the route
  3 days ago

• Chief Justice takes suo motu notice of Canal Road widening; orders no trees be cut

  
  Lahore Nama — Authority: 121
  From Dawn, 28 November 2009LAHORE, Nov 27: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Friday took suo motu notice against proposed chopping of trees in the provincial metropolis to widen Canal Road.Chief Justice Chaudhry directed the authorities concerned to put their plans of cutting the trees on ...
  4 days ago

• The Road Ahead: Learning from Toronto

  
  Stephen Rees's blog — Authority: 415
  Elyse Parker, Director Public Realm Section, Transportation Services, City of Toronto November 26, 2009 at UBC Robson Square. Last of the SFU City Program “Changing Gears” series The idea of creating better streets is tied into both dealing with climate change and creating a more livable city. Toronto is ...
  4 days ago

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