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• Houston a green capital? plus top rankings, reducing crime, and elevated busways

  
  Houston Strategies — Authority: 115
  Some smaller items for your reading pleasure when escaping the relatives or shopping of Thanksgiving break (or work, if youre stuck there this afternoon or Friday). IAH is the nations best big airport , according to the Daily Beast blog : " The Daily Beast set out to definitively sort the best and the worst, ...
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• Clinic groundbreaking in Avon

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 434
  The Cleveland Clinic broke ground today for its new Avon Family Health & Surgery Center near the planned I-90 interchange at Nagel Road. The 186,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in 2011 . Earlier this month, the Clinic began construction of a location in Twinsburg. Update: the Morning ...
  3 days ago

• Suburbs stop growing due to housing bust

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 124
  USAToday reports The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation’s biggest rapidly expanding suburbs. Twenty-four of the 53 cities of 100,000 or more that grew by at least 10% every decade since 1970 lost population in the last two years. ...
  4 days ago

• kangaroos can be dangerous to dogs

  
  my dog — Authority: 421
  A man was injured by a kangaroo recently when he tried to stop it drowning his dog . Its sad to read about a clash between the two species that we love. An acquaintance once told me a terrible story about her dog and a kangaroo fighting and falling down the bank into a river - both drowned. Ever since then Ive been ...
  4 days ago

• Sunday Night Notes

  
  The Overhead Wire — Authority: 466
  Long Beach is looking at streetcars ~~~ Quatar has a $22B deal with Deutsche Bahn to build freight, passenger, and Metro rail lines using Siemens technology. ~~~ Having the last train leave at 6:30 is a ridership killer . Commuter rail lines with limited time tables make no sense to me. ~~~ Major developments ...
  5 days ago

• ERBAN SPRÅLL -- slightly improved

  
  Anybody Want A Peanut? — Authority: 118
  Oooo. More info about the new IKEA development! Michael Nozick, Fairweathers president, said the shopping centre is being designed with landscaping and other features to minimize the effects of a Winnipeg winter. "If I used the word dome, that would be a little bit of an exaggeration. Thats ...
  6 days ago

• The not so new economic calamity

  
  Too Progressive — Authority: 100
  Interesting piece from the Huffington Post on what they call the next economic calamity : While the overall U.S. financial system is showing signs of stability, a rapidly rising tide of troubled loans for commercial real estate threatens the survival of hundreds of the nation’s small and medium-sized banks. ...
  1 week ago

• Restaurant Review: K Town Kebabs, or "How I went to the mall, and left happy."

  
  KnoxViews - — Authority: 512
  I rarely go to the mall. When I mean rarely, I mean that I have been to West Town Mall exactly 11 times during the whole time I have lived i... read more
  1 week ago

• Housing Starts Decline: Exactly As They Should Be

  
  Intercon — Authority: 100
  Yesterday the Commerce Department released that housing starts in the U.S. had dropped 10.6% in the month of October from the previous month. Cast in a predictably negative light, the markets responded with downward movement due to rising fears of a slow pace for our economic recovery. I find myself in the minority ...
  1 week ago

• ReBurbia: Designers Take on Greening the American Suburb

  
  Life within me — Authority: 140
  In the past few years, we’ve seen some interesting shifts take place between urban and suburban dwellers. Gas prices have risen and the life of the commuter has gotten to be too expensive for many; massive foreclosures have prompted countless former homeowners to downsize to urban apartments; and a move toward a ...
  1 week ago

• Job sprawl high in metro Phoenix

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 429
  [Source: The Urbanist] – This graph is a jobs index comparing the jobs located more than 10 miles from CBDs to jobs located within three miles of CBDs.  The dark blue sections show the difference in this ratio between 1998 and 2006.  For instance, the ratio for Phoenix is 1:1, meaning Phoenix experienced 100 ...
  1 week ago

• Open Up Your Eyes

  
  The Overhead Wire — Authority: 466
  Tonic is one of my favorite bands of all time. And its kind of funny since this was their first song on the radio and in video. Their second song If You Could Only See was probably on your radio every day in 1997. But this video is interesting to me because of the sprawly nature to it. As I look back at it, I try ...
  1 week ago

• Apartment living and women’s empowerment

  
  All About Cities — Authority: 113
  Back when North American metropolitan areas were laid out, in suburbs connected by freeways, women typically stayed home to raise the 3.9 children that was typical for a woman to have in 1961. The entire metro area design evolved interconnected with this dominant idea about womanhood as motherhood.  Suburbs detached ...
  1 week ago

• White Flight Still Happening

  
  CityKin — Authority: 132
  I thought this was the 21st century?! The article in the Enquirer today about new growth in Harrison has generated the typical nonsense commentary, but commentary that nonetheless is telling: mustbGWBsfault wrote: i grew up in covedale, moved to delhi. then the metro moved in and now there are shopping carts ...
  1 week ago

• Former County Manager Steve Shiver, House of Terror at Maggie Valley seeks winter venue in Miami by gimleteye

  
  EYE ON MIAMI — Authority: 506
  Is it possible, that Miami is about to get Steve Shiver back, with an assist from city government? They dont call it The Magic City, for nothing.The Mountaineer, a North Carolina journal, reports, "... plans are in the works to take Ghost Town to Miami — a move expected to generate revenue that will help boost the ...
  1 week ago

• A Crack in the Pavement

  
  CityKin — Authority: 132
  The Enquirer had an article about this documentary , and I also happened to see it the following week. It is interesting because it uses two older Cincinnati suburbs as examples of the problem: Elmwood Place and Madeira. Before watching this film, I knew Elmwood Place was down on its luck, but I wouldnt have ...
  1 week ago

• Groundbreaking in Twinsburg

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 434
  The Cleveland Clinic held a groundbreaking ceremony on November 5 for the $96 million Twinsburg Family Health & Surgery Center . The 190,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in 2011 .
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• End of Suburbia movie

  
  Kens Therapy — Authority: 121
  I have yet to see this film but it looks very interesting. Have any of you seen it? Ill be renting it in the next few weeks, if you want to see it just tweet or facebook me and maybe we can see it together. End of Suburbia
  2 weeks ago

• Let the Urban Sprawl

  
  This and That — Authority: 143
  After a 20-year battle waged by the Fritz family to get the city to rezone their farm at the corner of Nicholasville Road and Man o War Boulevard, the Lexington Planning Commission cleared the way on Thursday for the land to be developed. The commission adopted the South Nicholasville Road Small Area Plan, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• An empty city for sale

  
  Emergent Urbanism — Authority: 100
  If we needed any further confirmation that China is the champion builder of sprawl in this decade (sorry America, you don’t even come close against things like Dubai Marina ), this reporter traveled to an entire city built by developers in Inner Mongolia, that, it turns out, no one wants to move to because there ...
  2 weeks ago

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