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• Smarter Cities ~ A Project by the Natural Resources Defense Council

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 161
  About smarter cities: “When thinking about the urban environment, more often than not problems come first to mind.  Less commonly thought about is the potential presented by cities, potential to rethink and reshape their environments responsibly.  Today urban leaders—mayors, businesses and community ...
  12 hours ago

• URespond concept sketches for Random Hacks of Kindness event

  
  Tehran Shake — Authority: 103
  [IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tehranshake.wordpress.com&blog=1118412&post=596&subd=tehranshake&ref=&feed=1]
  5 days ago

• Space, Splashes and Videos

  
  Anybody Want A Peanut? — Authority: 118
  Splish Splash - Water park at the Forks ? The only developer interested in building a water park with the help of a $7-million city grant wants to use the public money to erect a $64-million luxury hotel. ... According to several sources speaking under condition of anonymity, the potential water-park proposal ...
  1 week ago

• Originator of the Term “Eco-City” Cites Misuse

  
  Ecocity Media — Authority: 113
  As the person who first coined the term “Eco-city”, Ecocity Builders founder Richard Register questions the interpretation of the term in such places as the upcoming Abu Dhabi World Future Energy Summit in January of 2010. Register has been an advocate for the idea of ecologically healthy cities since 1965, and he ...
  1 week ago

• Can We Design Better Communities?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 460
  (DRAFT 2. A Work-In-Progress) The Problem: Our Communities are Failing Ive been thinking about community lately. There is a great need for a new and better model for communities in the world today....
  1 week ago

• Hot, Hot, Heat: NYC’s Government-Approved Architecture

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 727
  Say what you will about third term victor Bloombergs politics, or financial largesse, but his mayoral legacy is solidified in large part by his Design and Construction Excellence Initiative (DCE) and subsequent Department of Design and Construction (DDC), which have turned what was once the "ugly stepchild" of the ...
  1 week ago

• Beavers Cave Denied: File under Victories, Small: the City...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 674
  File under Victories, Small : the City Planning Commission approved a new curb cut in the sidewalk outside FiDis William Beaver House , but André Balazss swingin condo fortress was denied in its request to build a parking garage. But, uh, enjoy that curb cut? And wait, does this mean well have to go elsewhere to ...
  1 week ago

• Cultivating a new Butyrkskaya, Moscow

  
  David Barrie — Authority: 103
  With the collapse in international bank lending comes a real opportunity in the world of urban development for investment in small projects and those projects growing over time to become catalysts to change. In an earlier post, I called it (rather unsexily) Venture Urbanism - and the good news is that theres an ...
  1 week ago

• D.C. Council excluded from city’s planning

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  The D.C. Council on Friday for the second time in as many days accused Mayor Adrian M. Fentys administration of illegally cutting council members out of government operations, this time to expedite the construction of a dozen recreation projects across the city. During a public roundtable, several council members ...
  1 week ago

• City Council Approves (Shorter) MoMA Tower

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 795
  The New York City Council approved the Museum of Modern Arts request to build an 82-story tower on Wednesday.
  2 weeks ago

• CurbedWire: SoBros Windmill Rental, Harlems Patriotic Mall

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 674
  SOUTH BRONX— Earlier this morning we linked to a report on the Eltona , a new five-story, 63-unit rental building in Melrose for families whose incomes fall below 60 percent of the area median income ($46,080 for a family of four). The building is all ecod out with energy-generating wind turbines on its rooftop. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shaping the City: The Courage of Master-Planning

  
  loans-blog — Authority: 145
  Other than raising taxes, few local government actions provoke as much political controversy as revising a long-range master plan, no matter how visionary the result. Yet visionary plans setting forth new land-use and transportation patterns are indispensable for managing growth. Source: Shaping the City: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Topsoil: The World’s Urban Sponge

  
  Ecocity Media — Authority: 113
  All those urbanites growing organic food in the city has a certain appeal for the media, but to the average person, it may feel like a temporary marginal fad at best.  So why are city governments around the world taking it so seriously?  As it turns out, this trend has the potential to solve some of the worst ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tailpipes, Traffic and Climate Change

  
  Ecocity Media — Authority: 113
  In the early 1960’s, International Ecocity Conference Series Founder and President of NGO Ecocity Builders’ Richard Register was living in Los Angeles when it was, as he says, “Hell on wheels, smog burning your throat and eyes and hundreds of ‘excess deaths’ a year from air pollution.”  Register has never ...
  2 weeks ago

• Talkin’ Shit

  
  Community. Identity. Stability. — Authority: 91
  We humans are clever animals.  We have figured out all kinds of ways to make our lives convenient and pleasant.  Cars, electricity, space travel, information and communication technologies… so many advances and innovative feathers in our brain caps related to the wondrous applications of human knowledge and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vallone eyes Astoria rezone

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 583
  From the Queens Gazette : Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. and members of the Department of City Planning have been working closely with Community Board 1, civic groups, the Norwood Neighborhood Association, the Greek American Homeowners Association and the Central Astoria Local Development Corporation [CALDC] to ...
  2 weeks ago

• San Diego to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emmissions

  
  A Girl And A Gun — Authority: 149
  Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32, 2006) calls for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in California to 1990 levels by 2020. Since cars and light-duty trucks represent 46% of total greenhouse gas emissions, all we have to do is tell the automakers what emissions goals they need to reach, and that should solve the problem, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Now available: South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel

  
  ARTstor Blog — Authority: 112
  Approximately 7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel are now available in the Digital Library. This is the first batch of field photography images from Patel, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, and includes art and architecture in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Planning and the White City

  
  Urban Revival — Authority: 108
  As many city planners and urban historians know, the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago greatly influenced how city officials at the time could envision cities. See the fair included a futuristic expo about cities, which included human scale models of grand institutional buildings set alongside broad tree-lined ...
  2 weeks ago

• Expo Magic of the White City, 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair

  
  Urban Revival — Authority: 108
  White City, a feature length film about the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair released in 2005 and narrated by Gene Wilder. The White City - Built to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovery of America, a "White City" with structures resembling the great marble columns of Rome resides at its unlikely ...
  2 weeks ago

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