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• My home, winning prizes and making the news

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 462
  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: 425
  When cities reach their breaking point, life must be moved beneath the surface. China’s subterranean-development expert speaks.
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• Toderian in San Francisco

  
  Price Tags — Authority: 125
  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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• Could Detroit become the City of Urban Agriculture?

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  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: 139
  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: 474
  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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• WPA 2.0 Student Edition Finalists Announced

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 123
  WPA 2.0 (SE) finalists has announced the finalists S1025 R_Ignite Re-Commission – Peter Millar . Jamie Potter . Andy Wilde The Manchester School of Architecture, UK S1035 Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans Aquaculture Canal Fadi Masoud – University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design ...
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• Urbanization is inevitable process: Varma

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  The Times of India reports According to Varma, “Urbanization is an inevitable process, according to recent research 90 per cent of urban growth is taking place in the developing world. But the present urban planning is not in consolidation of the rapid urban growth taking place.” Keshav Varma is now heading ...
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• Jefferson Park Project Advisory Team meeting tomorrow

  
  Beacon Hill Blog — Authority: 474
  From Mira Latoszek on the mailing list : The Parks Department has scheduled a Jefferson Park Project Advisory Team meeting. The meeting is this Tuesday, 11/10, @ 6pm at the Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling club house . The agenda includes the following topics: Jefferson Park Expansion Project — ...
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• Vancouver waterfront project dominates awards

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Ontario brownfield reclamation projects — followed by B.C. and Quebec projects— came away with the most Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) Brownie Awards at the 9th annual Canadian Brownfields Conference in Vancouver. Waterfront developments took three of the major awards and were also winners in other Brownie ...
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• Toronto awarded 2015 Pan Am Games

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  InsideToronto reports Toronto has won its bid to host the 2015 Pan Am Games – meaning that Scarborough will have a new LRT line servicing Malvern, and the Scarborough Campus of the University of Toronto will be home to a new-state-of-the-art aquatics centre and athletic facility. read more at the [SOURCE: ...
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• At panel on stalled megaprojects, AY draws implicit skepticism and indirect support (but only if there were infrastructure investment)

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 492
  Atlantic Yards Report So, is Atlantic Yards the right kind of megaproject? AY came up only glancingly during a panel on Saturday during the Institute for Urban Designs conference Arrested Development: Do Megaprojects Have a Future?, but panelists comments, in general, offered much implicit skepticism--though ...
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• AECOM wins US$60-million Kai Tak redevelopment project

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 123
  Image via  Wikipedia AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM), a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, announced today that it has won key contracts worth US$60 million from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ...
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• Doomed Dome: The Future That Never Was

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  To save energy,  a Vermont city once proposed a one-mile dome over its 7,000 residents ! (They paid $4 million a year in heating bills, and could reduce their heat consumption by 90 percent!) There’d be fly-fishing all year, and no more snow shoveling. (”Air would be brought inside by large fans and heated ...
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• CC: Ultimo Coffee

  
  Pure Coffee Blog — Authority: 113
  Whats does "CC" mean?Subject: Ultimo Coffee Location visited: Philadelphia, PAFree WiFi ? : yesRating: 6+ [see key]Urban planning has become something Ive grown tremendously interested in over the years. I love taking a retrospective look at how a city formed and than trying to gaze ahead to the many ...
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• “Major Translink Reform Needed” Part 2

  
  Stephen Rees's blog — Authority: 123
  This post is intended to be a more thorough analysis of the Comptroller General’s recent report on Translink.   I know that she also looked at BC Ferries but that is not going to be part of this post, although I think it is interesting to note that the two corporations are treated rather differently. My first go ...
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• Urban planning must be precise and scientific – Vietnam PM

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 123
  Hanoi, a constant construction site – IMAGE SOURCE: Flickr – seier+seier+seier Nhan Dan reports The Prime Minister of Vietnam – Nguyen Tan Dung stressed that urban planning must be precise and scientific to ensure sustainable development while receiving a delegation of the Vietnam Urban Development ...
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• CHSRA Initiates Statewide Land Use Planning Effort

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 551
  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. ...
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• Build Paris on Paris & Other Good Ideas for Growth

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  The site of the London Olympics is just one example of a plan to improve a city through retrofitting and connecting. Artists impression via London 2012 . Dense urban centers are good; sprawling suburbs are bad. Put in the simplest terms, thats what the conventional environmental wisdom tells us. But sometimes ...
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• November 9-15 Oakland Political & Community Events

  
  Living in the O — Authority: 117
  Monday, November 9th – Town Hall with Mayor Dellums and Police Chief Batts Come hear Mayor Dellums and Chief Batts share their vision of public safety. Topics include: Mayor Dellums — public safety strategy: PIES (Prevention, Intervention, Enforcement, Sustainability) Chief Batts — vision for the Oakland ...
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