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• ASU Students Design Temp Use Project for Vacant Land in Downtown Phoenix

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 521
  from ASU: Low-cost ideas, including the construction of planter boxes, to transform vacant lots in downtown Phoenix for temporary use until their development, will be presented at 11 a.m. Dec. 8 on the Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix campus. The multimedia presentation of research models was developed ...
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• Edinburgh College of Art launches its ‘Vision’ of academic research

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  Edinburgh College of Art is delighted to launch Vision , a major new publication about its current and future research projects in the creative disciplines. A lavishly illustrated book, Vision includes focus features on the College’s current research groups as well as profiles of over 100 staff and their ...
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• National Express lose East Anglia Franchise

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Lord Ardonis has confirmed that Nat Ex will be stripped of their East Anglia franchise from March 2011. SO in the space of the year C2C, ICEC and East Anglia will all come up......busy times!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ars-early.html
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• Gloucester & Cheltenham Tram

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Tram to link Gloucester and Cheltenham? Wednesday, November 25, 2009 A hydrogen-powered tram could link Gloucester Quays and Cheltenham under Government plans. The revolutionary system could even be extended out to Stratford-upon-Avon, Transport Minister Lord Adonis said yesterday. Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood met ...
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• Polnoon: Scotland’s first eco-village

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  Herald Scotland reports Scotland’s first eco-friendly village is set to be built on the outskirts of Glasgow.The pioneering development would see a low-carbon village called Polnoon created near Eaglesham , in East Renfrewshire.The Scottish Government has worked with developers on the design of the community, ...
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• Quebec to Cut Green House Gases by 20 Per Cent Compared to 1990, But the Problems Isnt Solved

  
  Recreating Eden — Authority: 127
  Montreal has a smog alert today as it has several times in the last two weeks, which is a little ironic, considering that yesterday Quebec Premier Jean Charest pledged to cut the emissions by 20 per cent compared to 1990 by 2020. On a per capita basis, the provinces emissions would drop to eight tonnes, ...
  3 days ago

• Buy tenants’ rights flash cards!

  
  Candy Chang — Authority: 93
  The tenant flash cards can now be purchased online for $10! The boxed set makes a handsome and righteous gift for anyone living in New York state, and all profits go to the good work of non-profit Tenants & Neighbors. It was great fun creating them and now you can enjoy good times learning the law on security ...
  3 days ago

• Bangalore students to cycle to school

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  Times of India reports A group of girls near the busy Old Airport Road in India’s tech hub Bangalore bicycle to school every day as a lifestyle statement – green transport is cool. Karnataka’s Transport Department is trying to spread this lifestyle statement to reduce congestion in this jammed city. ...
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• Suburbs stop growing due to housing bust

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 126
  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

• Amazing Malmö Puts Us All To Shame

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  All over North America, people complain about deteriorating cities, dysfunctional governments, decline of industrial base and loss of jobs. That pretty much describes Malmö twenty-five years ago, when the shipping industry collapsed and there was 25% unemployment.In North America, we just let cities fend for ...
  4 days ago

• From an outer suburban life by Linda Carroli

  
  Proboscis | Diffusion — Authority: 100
  Download eBook A4 | US Letter PDF 500Kb StoryCube A4 only PDF 630Kb About : Several years ago, Linda Carroli relocated to the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. During this time, as a result of this experience, she was moved to commence postgraduate studies in urban planning and design. ...
  4 days ago

• Are Cities Green, Or Are We Just Pigs in a Factory Farm?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  Every year the Trudeau Foundation holds a conference around an idea; this year the theme was about cities, about rethinking the urban commons. While issues of governance, homelessness and immigration were discussed, much attention was paid to the greening of cities. The speakers and guests were a mix of politicians, ...
  4 days ago

• PAYG Oyster valid across all London from 2/1

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  One ticket for trains, Tube and buses in Oyster card rail revolution The Oyster card revolution in travel across Greater London will start on 2 January, it was announced today. After years of negotiations and a £40 million investment, commuters will be able to touch in and touch out at Network Rail stations as ...
  4 days ago

• Ecological Agriculture: can it feed the world?

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  The latest edition of the Monthly Review (November 2009, Volume 61, Number 6) includes a paper from Jules Pretty is professor of environment and society at the University of Essex, UK . titled Can Ecological Agriculture Feed Nine Billion People? Below is an extract from the paper Something is wrong with our ...
  4 days ago

• Hong Kong Building regulations under review

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  news.com.hk reports The Council for Sustainable Development will recommend ways to deal with the problem of ‘inflated’ buildings in the first half of next year, Secretary for Development Carrie Lam says, adding the Government will review parking space proportions in buildings. As Hong Kong has a ...
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• cityLAB Design Competition WPA 2.0 Rides Perfect Storm in DC

  
  Architecture Lab — Authority: 427
  WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, the design competition organized by UCLA’s cityLAB, culminated with the announcement of “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” as the winning proposal of the professional competition and “R_Ignite” and “Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans” as the winning proposals of the ...
  5 days ago

• The Granville Street effect

  
  Stephen Rees's blog — Authority: 123
  There was a story on the CBC News last night that I would have liked to link to. Unfortunately it is not on their web site so I will have to summarise it from memory. When the Canada Line opened, bus service along Granville Street was significantly reduced. This has had a significant effect on the merchants of ...
  6 days ago

• Should the Central line Richmond Branch Proposals be revived?

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Richmond extensions In 1912 plans were published for an extension of the line from Shepherds Bush under Goldhawk Road, Stamford Brook Road and Bath Road to Turnham Green and Gunnersbury,[1] including stations at Hammersmith Grove, Paddenswick Road, Rylett Road, Stamford Gardens, Turnham Green and Heathfield Terrace. ...
  6 days ago

• How Free is Your Parking?

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 505
  Here is a great video I found via our friends over at Streetsblog.org. It was produced in Australia, but the effects of minimum parking requirements on urban areas are truly global in scope. Also check ...
  1 week ago

• Central Line

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 178
  Robbers targeted the London Underground Central Line 11:25am Thursday 19th November 2009 By Edmund Tobin » A VIOLENT gang who subjected passengers on the Central Line to a series of robberies have been jailed. Jeremiah White, and Remell Tulloch, both 18 and of no fixed abode, together with a 17-year-old who ...
  1 week ago

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