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• States order 11,185 buses

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Various states have ordered 11,185 buses to boost their urban transport systems under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).The orders consist of AC low-floor, non-AC low-floor, semi low-floor buses and mini buses, a government statement said. Maharashtra has placed order ...
  2 days ago

• International experts to speak on urban regeneration

  
  Colour Blind — Authority: 134
  the star -  Saturday November 7, 2009 Liu: Renewal does not mean tearing down buildings and rebuilding By CHRISTINA TAN The Selangor government will organise a conference for government agencies, researchers, professionals and stakeholders to discuss urban renewal activities, with the focus on redeveloping ...
  3 days ago

• Boy Howdy – the more things change the more they stay the same

  
  BadGalsRadio - RootsRock since 99 — Authority: 121
  The folks at the Onion seem to never run out of people to lambaste. I somehow think this commercial is too close to the real thing, to be sure. who knows - with the auto industry in the condition it’s in, this could be the future of america.  in anycase I just wish I had known two years ago;  before I got rid ...
  3 days ago

• Brick City

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 131
  Have you checked out "Brick City"? Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, provides new leadership for all interested in total urban renewal and community redevelopment. For a taste of the Sundance Channel series have a look: Posted on www.UrbanDaily.org
  5 days ago

• Can We Design Better Communities?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 460
  (DRAFT 2. A Work-In-Progress) The Problem: Our Communities are Failing Ive been thinking about community lately. There is a great need for a new and better model for communities in the world today....
  6 days ago

• Saggin and Fishtails; pots callin kettles black

  
  BadGalsRadio - RootsRock since 99 — Authority: 121
  One of the most important film events of the year is happening this weekend in Atlanta – it’s The International Black Man Film Festival . Auburn Avenue Library 101 Auburn Ave NE / Atlanta GA 30303 12noon to 9pm / Free / All Are Welcome info@blackmanfilmfest.net usa phone > 404.432.2194 this ...
  1 week ago

• Cultivating a new Butyrkskaya, Moscow

  
  David Barrie — Authority: 106
  With the collapse in international bank lending comes a real opportunity in the world of urban development for investment in small projects and those projects growing over time to become catalysts to change. In an earlier post, I called it (rather unsexily) Venture Urbanism - and the good news is that theres an ...
  1 week ago

• The Garden That Climbs Stairs

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 511
  Now famous for its Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim building, Bilbao continues to come up with unique ideas to revitalize its city center through urban design. According to Metropolis POV , the city commissioned a master plan seven years ago for the Abandoibarra area in the city’s downtown. Bilbao then ...
  1 week ago

• CNU--Another non-profit seeking to change you

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 445
  The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization is the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. Not the nanny state exactly, but certainly one of the nagger earth groups. Many of these same building and design career groups gave us ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, Dies at 93

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 511
  Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, one of the world’s leading landscape architects, passed away at the age of 93. His six-decade career encompassed such prominent works as the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.; Freeway Park in Seattle, Ghirardelli Square, Levi’s Plaza and the United Nation’s Plaza in San Francisco; among ...
  2 weeks ago

• MM: Happy Monday – Strippers? Hookers? Hair Gel? Waterboarding Dick Cheney?

  
  BadGalsRadio - RootsRock since 99 — Authority: 121
  SuperNews! Ep. 8 “Strippers? Hookers? Hair Gel?” // Current . SuperNews! Ep. 8 “Strippers? Hookers? Hair Gel?” this week we compare two manic personalities – from the news. one thinks he runs the world, and the other one will never admit that he tried to run it into the ground; Dick and Weezie, yeah ...
  2 weeks ago

• Communities for Health: unlocking the energy within communities to improve health

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 148
  Title: Communities for HealthUnlocking the energy within communities to improve health – updated 21 October 2009 Skinny: Exemplifies the increasing role local government plays in supporting health improvement and reducing health inequalities. This second report includes community activities in over 80 local ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exclusive: Sneak Peek of system:system in Greenpoint Convent

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 724
  What do you get when you put 25 artists in a former convent? Curators Christina Vassallo and Adam Henry of Random Number aim to demonstrate this weekend and next, when their show system:system opens in the St. Cecilia parish at 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Rather than let the abandoned building turn into ...
  2 weeks ago

• How High Speed Rail Can Spread Across the U.S.

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 511
  The U.S. High Speed Rail Assocation , a new group formed to advocate for high speed rail, organized a conference in D.C. attended by Congressional representatives, smart growth advocates, and Governor Ed Rendell from Pennsylvania, a leading high speed rail proponent. Rendell argues that a nation-wide high speed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hatred Towards Less Fortunate, Hard-Working Families

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 529
  "This is the most amazing statement I believe you have ever made. Have you ever seen residents of a poor neighborhood make an annual trip to a suburb of perhaps $200,000 houses for a drive to clean up the community? I never have. On the other hand it is an annual event to go to a poor neighborhood and make a clean ...
  2 weeks ago

• £100m in green initiatives to regenerate deprived areas of London

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  More than 1,000 jobs will be created as part of a £100m green funding boost to regenerate some of the poorest parts of London, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Paweł Samecki announced today. The joint funding will finance decentralised energy, recycling and waste ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Vintage Parking Garage

  
  UrbanReviewSTL — Authority: 129
  Downtown St. Louis has many parking garages, too many in fact.  Most are as bland as you’d expect a parking garage to be. The curving exit ramp of the Macy’s garage at 6th & Pine ( map link ) is anything but bland. One of the two Kiener Plaza garages are visible from the exit ramp of the Macy’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Worn facades in Ironwood get face-lift

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 451
  Four more downtown Ironwood facade improvement projects are kicking off.City manager Scott Erickson told city commissioners this week that Ironwood Glass, Woodtech Builders, the apartments next to Pickard Place and the building next to the Powerhouse Mall are joining the long list of businesses to be spruced up under ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.S. City Parks Added 5,000 Acres Last Year

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 511
  The Trust for Public Land released a report stating that the 77 largest city park systems in the U.S., which cover more than 1.3 million acres, added 5,000 acres of parkland over the past year. The Trust for Public Land offered a range of facts and figures: ”Big-city park departments last year offered 56 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Property Values and Redevelopment

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 529
  Anyone who has attempted inner city housing development containing a mixed-income component understands how resistant existing neighborhoods can be when faced with such plans. The almost universal, knee-jerk reaction: opposition.People worry about the affect of such changes on their property values. Working out of ...
  3 weeks ago

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