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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sprawl”

• CHSRA Initiates Statewide Land Use Planning Effort

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 542
  San Francisco Chronicle architecture columnist John King writes today of an ambitious state planning project known as Vision California . The project is intended to provide a holistic, statewide model of growth scenarios, with an emphasis on how high speed rail will change the states growth and land use patterns. ...
  2 days ago

• Tax and Road Policies Encourage Sprawl

  
  CityKin — Authority: 427
  ..No Kidding: ....the tax code encourages Americans to live in big, energy-guzzling homes, ... and Congress seems intent on further unbalancing the federal budget to egg on home buyers. ...A particularly bizarre feature of the proposed extension is that the credit would go not only to new home buyers, but also to ...
  2 days ago

• What’s the Role of Science for Advocacy?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 533
  As the “energy sprawl” idea has been discussed and debated in the media , I (one of the paper’s co-authors) have  grown a thick skin against criticism. Perhaps the harshest piece of invective, however, still bothers me: the criticism by Matt Wasson in the Huffington Post . The factual criticisms Matt makes ...
  5 days ago

• Sprawl: reminder and clarification

  
  girlie jones — Authority: 134
  Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for Sprawl closes December 20th 2009. Someone just asked me about multiple submissions and I dont have a problem with authors submitting more than one work. Id like to consider as much material appropriate to the theme as possible for what I hope to be a stand out anthology ...
  5 days ago

• The coming suburban slums

  
  Smart Remarks — Authority: 438
  Via Matt Y., interesting piece over at Ryan Avent’s DC Streestblog on how government policy might actually be bailing out sprawl: Foreclosures have been concentrated on urban fringes, so federal efforts to modify mortgages and otherwise reduce defaults have tended to direct more aid to exurbs than inner suburbs ...
  6 days ago

• The Smart Growth Manual

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 414
  Smart Growth is slowly being recognized as having benefits outside of the usual talk of walkable neighbourhoods and streetscapes. This book, The Smart Growth Manual runs through the principles from the Regional context, the Neighbourhood, the Street, down to the Building design. If you are interested in New Urbanism, ...
  6 days ago

• Elections

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 471
  Just as when Bob Ehrlich, the Republican candidate, won the Governorship in Maryland in 2002 because he faced a weak Democratic candidate, I think the only thing that election results in Virginia (" GOP and McDonnell soar in Virginia " -- Post ) and New Jersey (" Christie bests Corzine in election for N.J. governor " ...
  6 days ago

• Remember the point about Montgomery County adjusting to a smart growth land paradigm

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 471
  Check out this pro-automobile editorial from the Gazette from a couple weeks ago, " Where we grow from here ." And this cartoon . (This is what I meant to blog about.) From the editorial: One of the main problems with the proposal is that some of the methods to encourage transit-oriented growth ...
  1 week ago

• Traffic Congestion Pricing Methods and Technologies

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/41/45/26/PDF/2009-30.pdf Abstract: This paper reviews the methods and technologies for congestion pricing of roads. Congestion tolls can be implemented at scales ranging from individual lanes on single links to national road networks. Tolls can be differentiated by time of ...
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• Speed Blogging

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 598
  Use bar codes to find where your food came from. (Reminds me of this and this post.) The wisdom of Lin Ostroms husband, Vincent : We should expect to find some combination of market and non-market structures in every society, and we should recognize the complex configuration of institutions behind ...
  1 week ago

• Urban growth boundaries and success with "smart growth"

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 471
  Of course, with regard to the report mentioned in todays Post, you have to have a variety of tools in place to make better land use decision making possible. In Maryland, two counties, Baltimore and Montgomery , have relatively hard and fast "urban growth" boundaries, just like Portland, Oregon , even though in ...
  1 week ago

• Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 2

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 533
  Orangutan-friendly palm oil sales are on the rise ! Yah! Vandals are throwing the community bicycles of Paris into the Seine ! Boo! Beware emotional whiplash in this roller-coaster edition of Cool Green Morning — just slip the buckle into the clasp and pull tight across your waist… Can long-range climate ...
  1 week ago

• "Of course" "smart growth" in Maryland is a "flop"

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 471
  According to todays Post , " Study says Md. law fails to direct growth, save open space ." From the article: But a new study says the law has been a bust, largely because it has no teeth to force local governments to comply and because builders have little incentive to redevelop older urban neighborhoods. Thats ...
  1 week ago

• Viewpoint: Ode to a Phoenix

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 432
  [Source: jsethanderson , blogger, Downtown Phoenix Partnership] — I must be a glutton for punishment.  My passion about Phoenix history burns hot like the Phoenix sun in July and as much as I love the heat, it can harm me if I’m not careful.  Studying Phoenix history can do the same.  The subject is like a ...
  1 week ago

• Petro Sapien™ (Part Two)

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 134
  posted by Armadillo Joe NoWhereMan wrote the following comment on my last post, Petro Sapien™: Great to have you back Joe but, as life long resident of the city who makes his living delivering goods to those stores that dot what was once Times Sq,it is so aggravating and ridiculous for me to have to park 5 ...
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• Condos or Cows? Neither

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 439
  This is an essay by George Wuerther on the topic whether we have to choose cows or housing development. I put it up in reponse to Wilderness Muse’s query on another post. Note: this was written in 2003. Condos or Cows? Neither! (1-20-03 edit) by © George Wuerthner Box 839 Richmond, Vermont FLAWED STRATEGY ...
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• Zombie Subdivisions

  
  CityKin — Authority: 427
  Click CNN to see a news video about why these new streets have no houses on them: View fayetteville in a larger map Then look at this graph comparing sales of existing and new homes: Id like to see the graph above with a line added showing old house demolitions/abandonments, because in the recent past, ...
  1 week ago

• Amid the sprawl of Annandale, a bit of nature thrives

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 965
  As Annandale continued to become increasingly urban over the past four decades, a small building on the edge of a wooded oasis has helped preserve a natural wildlife habitat and taught multiple generations the importance of protecting the environment.
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• "The scale of contemporary society makes the design of systems which limit the acquisition of power..."

  
  Bout of Context — Authority: 426
  “The scale of contemporary society makes the design of systems which limit the acquisition of...
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• The Law Speaks. Will Mulroy Listen?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 598
  via RW, we have this bad news sensible decision from a Nevada judge: Judge Norman Robison ruled that State Engineer Tracy Taylor "abused his discretion" and "acted arbitrarily, capriciously and oppressively" when he cleared the [Southern Nevada Water] Authority to pump more than 6 billion gallons of groundwater a ...
  1 week ago

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