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• Fresh Photos of Fresh Kills: A Landfill Transformed

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  The Fresh Kills mound. Photo by Nathan Kensinger . When New York City decided to turn its 4.6-square-mile Fresh Kills landfill into a recreational nature area three times the size of Central Park , city officials touted it as "the park project of our time." Thats a lot of hype to live up to, but eight years after ...
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• Waller Creek Meeting Notes

  
  Downtown Austin — Authority: 130
  In summary, its nice to see action and momentum!
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• Tejon Got Served—New Lawsuit for Mega Project

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 648
  The mega development planned for Tejon Ranch cant catch a break—and thats music to the ears of many. The AP via the San Jose Mercury-News reports that a group of environmentalists filed a suit today to stop the smaller of two developments planned for the Tejon Ranch area (the largest piece of privately-owned ...
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• Urban Bike Project Survey

  
  Bike Oven — Authority: 108
  Please take the following survey to assist collecting the “experience and knowledge of cyclists in the City of Los Angeles.” The survey will also support a “white paper” that will be released in February on behalf of the Los Angeles Sustainability Collaborative (www.lasustainability.org). Click Here to ...
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• Lessons Learned From Kelo

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 136
  The Wall Street Journal reflects on Pfizer’s recent decision to leave its location in New London, Conn. I like the following statement from the op-ed in particular: If there is a lesson from Connecticut’s misfortune, it is that economic development that relies on the strong arm of government will never be ...
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• John Gatewood: Safeway at College @ Claremont – Opportunity to Enhance an Urban Village

  
  Living in the O — Authority: 118
  This guest post was written by John Gatewood, one of the co-founders of ULTRA (Urbanists for a Livable Temescal Rockridge Area), which supports higher density mixed-use development along the major transit corridors of north Oakland. John works in the Graphic Arts Industry and is a resident of Temescal. Safeway is in ...
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• Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Cards, Numbers 24-27

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 520
  Noticing New York After posting umpteen-thousand words on Tuesday on 300 years of the history of judicial independence, Michael D.D. White somehow managed to run off four more installments of his "Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card" series. Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card #24: Avoidance of ...
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• CEOs for Cities

  
  Unlimited Blog — Authority: 126
  The connection between business and civic life is a little discussed but intertwined. (Jeremy Derksen wrote a bit about this for Unlimited in “ City of Jobs .”) If the urban space was a Venn diagram, the civic, business, philanthropic and academic sectors would overlap. Each applies, to varying degrees, pressure ...
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• The Loophole in the VBML Ordinance that could cost the city millions of dollars!

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 124
  T he VBML , Vacant Building Maintenance License was hailed originally as a great idea. It would go after the worst of the worst property owners who refused to do anything to their properties. It would help shake those properties loose and get them into good ownership, it would protect first responders by ...
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• Jefferson Park is happening!

  
  Beacon Hill Blog — Authority: 475
  By Frederica Merrell Even on a blustery dark night, supporters of Jefferson Park showed up at 6pm Tuesday at the Lawn Bowling Club to provide advice on the Jefferson Park reconstruction project. Parks Project Manager Andy Scheffer and two members of the Berger Partnership design team shared details on the status of ...
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• UBC students design pavilion for 2010 Olympics

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  Sarah Chung at the THEUBYSSEY.CA reports The 24-hour design session, or 24-hour charette, consisted of interdisciplinary architecture student teams designing a rain-proof, bright, and lively pavilion to be erected in Downtown Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics. The event was held at the Lasserre Building and ended at ...
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• My home, winning prizes and making the news

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 489
  As long time readers of my blog already know I live on a green a roof (which is so amazing I wrote about it twice ). I also live above a couple of box stores including a Winners and Home Depot and not to mention a sushi restaurant, a cellphone shop, and a Starbucks as well as a Save-on-Foods. As I tell my friends, ...
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• Better Underground

  
  Architecture Lab — Authority: 426
  When cities reach their breaking point, life must be moved beneath the surface. China’s subterranean-development expert speaks.
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• We do this because

  
  west north — Authority: 112
  A recent conversation turned, as many do, to travel — but not so much the logistics thereof, about which any flyertalker can expound for hours, but rather what it is that we’re seeking away from home. Is it better weather, time with loved ones, a tastier cup of tea, or just that weightless sensation of being lost? ...
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• Toderian in San Francisco

  
  Price Tags — Authority: 126
  City Planner Brent Toderian was on a panel in San Francisco this week, along with other American city planners – covered here – as they engaged in a little mea culpa. “Because of the failure of the planning profession in the past, we’ve gotten quiet, we’ve gotten a little too meek,” said Brent ...
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• DC One-Ups New York in Progressive Architecture

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 737
  Union Square in Washington, DC, is showing off a shiny new Bike Transit Center that offers secure bike parking for 150 cycles, plus a changing room, lockers, bike rentals, and repair shop for commuters. Access to the center costs $1 per day or a yearly membership fee of $100, which includes round-the-clock entry. The ...
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• Decaying mall prime for redevelopment in Lexington

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  View Larger Map Recently,   Kentucky.com published an interesting article about Lexington Mall. A mall that has slowly died over the last 20 years and become part of the urban decay of Lexington. The site now offers a great opportunity for development as it is located inside the New Circle Road(See Map). The ...
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• Could Detroit become the City of Urban Agriculture?

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  View Larger Map The idea of returning Detroit to farm land is an interesting idea that was recently covered in New Geography (DETROIT: URBAN LABORATORY AND THE NEW AMERICAN FRONTIER, Nov. 4) and New York Times( Plowing Detroit Into Farmland blog post Nov. 9 based on New Geography article). The New Geography ...
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• Hamilton cuts waterfront budget

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  Image via  Wikipedia The Royal Gazette reports The Corporation of Hamilton (Bermuda) has revised its plans for a waterfront development — slashing the budget from a quarter of billion dollars to less than $200 million. Mayor Charles Gosling announced that “It is more in keeping with ...
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• Jefferson Park expansion projects topic of December 1 forum

  
  Beacon Hill Blog — Authority: 475
  Beacon Hill skaters could be doing this in Jefferson Park very soon. Photo by Roger Price. “Who lives on Beacon Hill and wants to go to the Jefferson sk8 park? Dec 1 630-830 @ Jefferson Park Community Center – $1million allocated!” said skatelikeagirl on Twitter last night. The planned Jefferson skate park is ...
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