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• Friday Fun Infographic: How Our Cities are Shaping Us

  
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  Cloud Gate, a public sculpture in the US city of Chicago. Photo by Marshall Segal. Have we designed our communities in such a way that we are contributing to the obesity epidemic and other health problems? The infographic designed by Chris Yoon (below) asks this question and illustrates some of the findings from a ...
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• Don’t Let Zombie Clouds Eat Your Data!

  
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  In 2008, I migrated the entire infrastructure of a small startup into Amazon’s EC2 cloud. It was a big job, and I was delighted when I finally sent an email to the sysadmin at the previous colo datacenter, announcing that he could power down our old servers. We were going to save a  ton  of money. Fast-forward a ...
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• Book Previews: Sprawl Retrofitting at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21

  
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  Robert Pittman , artist and author , opened by presenting his new book, Anonymization , for the first time in the United States. He defined sprawl as “anonymous development” due to the alienation one feels when in a sprawling suburb and the loss of unique character and culture via homogenized designs. The ...
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• Assessment of development and regeneration urban projects: cultural and operational implications in metropolization context

  
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  by Roberto De LottoIt has been worldwide demonstrated that metropolization phenomenon is changing in an indelible way the structure, the shape, the livability and the environment of contemporary cities. This phenomenon can not be circumscribe d in a specific national context but it involves the urban sphere of the ...
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• Northeast Ohios 21st century struggle

  
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  The Plain Dealer s Steven Litt drew connections between a series of seemingly-unrelated headlines to outline the "compelling overall narrative" of Northeast Ohio as a region " at odds with itself as it tries to figure out how to meet the 21st century ."
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• Brookings job sprawl report

  
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  The latest report on job sprawl by Elizabeth Kneebone of the Brookings Institution said that the recession "helped drive a slight uptick in urban core job share in more than half of the nations largest metro areas between 2007 and 2010." However, job sprawl was more pronounced in the five-county Greater ...
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• Strongsville interchange proposal

  
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  Leaders in Strongsville hope that funding from the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission will be used to build more noise barriers along the Ohio Turnpike and Interstate 71. In addition, a Strongsville city councilman says that the City should pursue funding for a new highway interchange at I-71 and ...
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• Moving into the Future: Planning for Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada Region

  
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  Following another dry winter in the Sierra Nevada Region, wildfire risks are on the rise in Northern California and the season has just begun. A study released by UC Merced found that fire risk in California will double over the next forty years, and potentially triple in the Sierra foothills by the end of the ...
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• NYT wants to save the Astrodome, Houston rising, Atlanta learns the wrong lessons from us, and more

  
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  Lets open this weeks post of smaller miscellaneous items with this excellent NY Times essay on the importance of saving the Astrodome: "Astrodome: Dirty and Dated, but Irreplaceable".  Great old pics too.So it was despairing to hear that the vacant Astrodome might be torn down and its site paved over as Houston ...
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• Revising Suburbia

  
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  Suburbs are notorious for being environmentally unfriendly and socially unhelpful, but the times are changing, and at last theres some evidence that design firms and planners are changing with them.
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• Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice

  
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  BlackGirlEnviroRacism.jpg by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese The non-white poor bear the brunt of industrial environmental degradation, yet are barely represented among those groups that purport to protect the environment. “ The failure to include and respect the diversity of voices ...
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• Proposed Rebuild of Kenrick Plaza in Shrewsbury, MO Ignores Walkability & ADA (UPDATED)

  
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  I’m not a fan of Walmart, but this post isn’t an attack on the Walmart business model. Instead the purpose of this post is to show how the redevelopment of Kenrick Plaza ( map ), proposed by G. J. Grewe, as presented, will not meet the minimum requirements of the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (ADA). First ...
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• Proposed New Southwest Expressway: A Highway to Urban Sprawl in South Dade

  
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  The proposed Southwestern extension of 836 MDX Toll Expressway appears to be a breath of fresh air to the residents of West Kendall.  An alternate route to the job centers of Miami-Dade county that will enable the residents to cut their commute time and frustrations of bumper to bumper traffic on Florida Turnpike (SR ...
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