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• Public Square thoughts

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 138
  Mandy Metcalf believes that the best solutions for redesigning Clevelands Public Square involve the closing of Ontario Street and Superior Avenue in the square.
  7 hours ago

• Aggarwal Building Progress

  
  Fort Worthology — Authority: 128
  Time for another check on the Aggarwal Building, one of several small-scale mixed-use infill developments underway in the Near Southside.  The Aggarwal Building will feature a ground-floor medical office for Dr. Ved V. Aggarwal, while the second floor will feature four apartments, two of which are 1 bedroom/1 bath ...
  20 hours ago

• Before and after: Truxton Circle

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  Before and after: Truxton Circle Originally uploaded by rllayman This is posted in one of the foyer entrances to a set of offices for DCs Dept. of Transportation. Obviously its an ironic comment. A few years ago, DDOT did a great thing and restored Thomas Circle. While not eliminated in favor of traffic as ...
  22 hours ago

• Can sustainable urban design and landscape architecture help combat global warming?

  
  Gardenvisit.com Blog — Authority: 114
  Designing urban landscapes for motor vehicles discourages human-powered transport Watching Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth at one sitting led me to the following conclusions: The film is excellent and has much to teach college lecturers, both about the analysis of complex issues and ...
  1 day ago

• 714 Main Restoration Progress

  
  Fort Worthology — Authority: 128
  During the holidays, XTO Energy’s restoration of 714 Main made great progress, and the nearly-finished facade is exposed along Main Street.  The re-created lower levels of the building feature tall arched windows, warrior heads atop the arches, logos for the building’s original owner (Farmers & Mechanics ...
  1 day ago

• TownePlace Suites at Trinity Bluff Progress

  
  Fort Worthology — Authority: 128
  The TownPlace Suites at Trinity Bluff in Uptown has topped out and exterior wrap work is underway.  The hotel will feature 140 rooms, tucked into a lot at Elm & Belknap next to the Palisades townhomes and Lincoln Trinity Bluff apartments.  The hotel appears to basically be a suburban hotel turned 180 degrees ...
  1 day ago

• Australian state government fastracks the rebuilding of Marysville

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 129
  3 months after WLA reported in Marysville Moving On that the Marysville Urban Design Framework was released for public comment now comes news that the UDF has been fast-tracked and approved by Victorian State Planning Minister Justin Madden. Marysville was the township that was destroyed during the 2009 bushfires. ...
  2 days ago

• The ALO Triangle – Lansdowne

  
  Price Tags — Authority: 431
  The ALO Triangle lies between the Aberdeen and Lansdowne Canada Line stations and the Olympic Oval - the territory to be traversed by many thousands of Olympic visitors.    It’s only a kilometre from Lansdowne to the Olympic Oval – but it’s a dreary kilometre. Here are a few of the enticing streetscapes ...
  3 days ago

• Happy New Year from COFFEEINTHESQUARE

  
  Coffee in the Square — Authority: 109
  How nice to wake up on New Years Day to find a crystal blue sky and the Post Office Tower, which hovers over our flat, sporting a new years message. This is perhaps just a little reminder about the importance of iconography to urban design. But mainly its to wish all our readers good luck in the tens. [Posted ...
  4 days ago

• Woe is CSI: New York and the Law and Order franchise

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  ... as " New York City crime rates at record low: police " from Reuters. I joke that tv shows like CSI: Miami are hardly "advertisements" for tourism, even though they are pretty fake and disconnected from reality. But with Law and Order, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, plus CSI: ...
  5 days ago

• Ten Common Sense Rules For TOD

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  I was looking in the archive for 10/2005 for something, and came across this. It emphasizes the point that TOD isnt about transit as much as it is about urban form, compact development, and mobility connected development. ------ Ten Common Sense Rules For TOD , from Bruce Liedstrand, an ex-government official and ...
  5 days ago

• Next Week at The Parlor

  
  The Green Lantern Press — Authority: 121
  posted by Caroline Picard The Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials (LDSM) * will be at The Parlor Tuesday January 5th at 7pm! The LDSM performs an excerpt from Theoretical Isolation: A Post-Atomic Experiment, a collaboratively generated performance inspired by the development of the atomic ...
  5 days ago

• A green paradigm shift

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  While he sees these changes coming to the fore next year, and I think that it is more a matter of a serious paradigm shift that will take decades to play out, with possible acceleration due to increases in the price of gasoline as well as more restricted supplies, the entry " the Green Top 10 for 2010 " list, by Steve ...
  6 days ago

• Traffic-mitigating public artwork - Oregon

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  From email: Deadline to apply is January 13, 2010. Clackamas County and the Clackamas County Arts Alliance are seeking qualifications from artists / artist teams in the United States for a permanent traffic-mitigating public artwork that will signify entrance into the 172nd Avenue Roundabout and serve as a civic ...
  1 week ago

• 2010 Omnibus Appropriations Act

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 138
  The 2010 federal omnibus spending bill includes $500,000 for the reconfiguration of the six-way intersection at Warrensville Center Road and Van Aken Boulevard in Shaker Heights . It also includes $2.5 billion for high-speed rail projects, a compromise between Senate and House versions of the bill.
  1 week ago

• departments of public works vs. departments of transportation

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  There is a belief that "highway departments" focus on roads and road construction, because they are focused on providing mobility, especially speedy trips, for cars and trucks. Its mostly true. Because most of the people who come to power in these agencies are civil engineers and traffic engineers, and they have ...
  1 week ago

• Interesting cycling and walking promotion efforts in Toronto

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  - Toronto Pedestrian Charter and the webpage discussion . - Toronto Walking Strategy What is the Toronto Walking Strategy? The aim of the Walking Strategy is to build a physical and cultural environment that supports and encourages walking, including vibrant streets, parks, public squares and ...
  1 week ago

• Garbage City: An Unbelievable Real-Life Urban Wasteland

  
  Dornob — Authority: 574
  [ Filed under Urban Design or in the Architecture category ] No, it is not just trash talk or slang for some city slum – this place really is known as Garbage City with good reason: its denizens live in a surreal urban landscape with waste stuffed in every spare corner, stacked on the sidewalks and ...
  1 week ago

• Oversupply of parking spaces in transit connected developments

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  Professor Robert Cervero of Berkeley, one of the worlds leading transportation researchers, with his colleagues did a study on parking requirements for _suburban_ multiunit housing developments proximate to transit stations in the East Bay region of San Francisco and Metropolitan Portland. See Are TODs Over-Parked? ...
  1 week ago

• "Bay Area Graffiti" awesome book covering the amazing art in central California

  
  SpankyStokes - Art, Vinyl Toys, Culture, & Everything Inbetween! — Authority: 507
  Fabled as a region that embraces freedom of expression in all of its guises, the San Francisco Bay Area has long been a world-renowned cultural hotbed. Bay Area Graffiti is the first comprehensive retrospective of the areas vibrant contemporary street-art scene. Documented by the distinctive photographic eye of Steve ...
  1 week ago

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