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• LABP: Planning Department misleading people, and on vacation! (12/100)

  
  Westside BikeSIDE! — Authority: 520
  The Planning Department has been misleading people, telling people that their comments will be considered in the LA Bike Plan after the public comment period has passed.  Even better, the Planning Department refused to extend the deadline, but the recipient of the comments, Jordann Turner, was out of town on the day ...
  3 days ago

• Dissecting Utopia?:: Canada’s Safest City

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 115
  Ken Kirsch-"Caledon Ontario Road" Notes from North of 49ºN. Macleans magazine, like any other, likes to create lists.  I was going through old issues before I pitched them and I spied an article about Canada’s Most Dangerous Cities.  {Here’s the 2009 version } . Caledon, Ontario for two years straight ...
  4 days ago

• Fighting Queens Crap: The practice of paving over front...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 688
  The practice of paving over front yards to create private parking spaces exploded from 2005-2008, earning the endorsement of Barbara Corcoran and the rage of blogger Queens Crap . Now the City Planning Commission is finally ready to act. Just launched: The public review of the Residential Streetscape Preservation ...
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• Goldberger Pens Love Letter to Nouvels 100 Eleventh

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 688
  The critical reaction to Jean Nouvels mountain of broken glass at 100 Eleventh Avenue has been mixed so far , but here comes a heavyweight to shape the discussion moving forward. The New Yorker s Paul Goldberger, author of one of our favorite architecture takedowns of all time, sizes up Nouvels Vision Machine in ...
  1 week ago

• Cities X Design

  
  Kens Therapy — Authority: 121
  I found this interesting website the other day. Cities X Design They are currently in the midst of a cross country film project documenting urban design from coast to coast. The site has a social networking aspect through ning also. I thought I would share it with you guys, it looks very intriguing. I have yet ...
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• INVESTIGATION: City wants to Bulldoze property they spent your taxdollars to save!

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 421
  292 McGregor is different among the mostly Brick Queen Anne style homes on the block. But it may be the poster child" for what is wrong with city government. A nearby neighbor to the house , Wes, who is a recent historic preservation graduate who is restoring the historic John Peaslee house just down the street ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Kelo Conceit

  
  The Antiplanner — Authority: 512
  It is hard not to gloat over the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s infamous Kelo decision. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out recently, the city of New London, Connecticut spent $78 million condemning people’s homes and bulldozing them away, and the development that was supposed to happen in that area has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zoning the Sustainable City

  
  Home | The New York Observer — Authority: 718
  About a week before Election Day, with little fanfare, the Bloomberg Administration announced its one hundredth zoning change since the mayor came into office in 2002. In New York City, zoning is one of the most important regulatory tools available to government in its efforts to enhance sustainability and the quality ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• URespond concept sketches for Random Hacks of Kindness event

  
  Tehran Shake — Authority: 93
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• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Ecocity Media — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can We Design Better Communities?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 468
  (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....
  3 weeks ago

• Can We Design Better Communities?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 468
  (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....
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 722
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 688
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cultivating a new Butyrkskaya, Moscow

  
  David Barrie — Authority: 108
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• City Council Approves (Shorter) MoMA Tower

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 802
  The New York City Council approved the Museum of Modern Arts request to build an 82-story tower on Wednesday.
  4 weeks ago

• CurbedWire: SoBros Windmill Rental, Harlems Patriotic Mall

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 688
  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. ...
  4 weeks ago

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