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• Akrama back in news!

  
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  up 0 users have liked. Its that time of the season again when the discussions on Akrama/Sakrama is back to the fore with the new govt taking over the reigns. Guvernor has rejected the older (BJP) version of the bill and the new govt plan to revisit the whole thing..probably it will get a new name again and ...
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• Remembering the Urban in the Turkish Uprisings

  
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  by Alex Schafran As events unfold in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, there is a tendency for the urban issues that sparked the uprising to fade into the background. But as Cihan Tuğal argues in his must-read piece for Jadaliyya, understanding both the urban roots of the revolt and the tendency to ...
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• What will VeloCity have in its 7th volume...

  
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  I cant wait! VeloCity Vol. 6 Guesses?
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• Windsor District

  
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  WABG Newly created "Windsor District" (listed on the urban redevelopment district page for the City of OKC), along NW 23rd between I-44 and Peniel (Bethany city line). Itll be interesting to see what happens in this area. It screams walkability. I was over there recently and where sidewalks SHOULD be there are ...
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• Nightlife in Neglected Areas: A Recipe for Successful Upgrades in Thessaloniki, Greece

  
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  As the years pass, there are certain areas in every city that tend to be neglected. But what happens when the nightlife industry intrudes in those areas and changes their whole vibe? This is exactly the case for Valaoritou and Sigrou Streets in Thessaloniki , Greece . The area around these streets were the ...
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• These Boots are Made for Walking, and so is This City: 4 Benefits of a Walkable City

  
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  “Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the ...
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• Is urban development the biggest threat to cicada populations?

  
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  Cicadas can live for up to seventeen years, though most of that time is spent underground, sometimes residing more than two metres below the surface. At an appointed time, they emerge from their subterranean abode, and live for a relatively brief time above ground. While cicadas probably have few predators to worry ...
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• Housing Discrimination Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gone Underground

  
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  Discrimination in the housing market persists in subtle forms, according to a study by the Urban Institute on behalf of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Using pairs of white and minority participants across 28 metropolitan areas, the Urban/HUD study found that realtors consistently show ...
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• Housing Scheme Registration Directive (የቤት ፈላጊዎች እና ዳግሞ ተመዝጋቢዎች ምዝገባ መመሪያ)

  
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  The registration process for the new Housing Scheme is now officially open. According to announcement made by Addis Abeba Housing Development & Administration Agency, registration for 10/90 and the 20/80 projects will be from June 10 to June 28 and registration for 40/60 project will be from August 12 to August ...
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• Second IRS closing day coming tomorrow

  
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  The IRS is reminding taxpayers that most operations will be closed Friday, the second in a string of sequestration-caused furlough days for its 115,000 employees. "This means that all IRS offices, including all toll-free hotlines, the Taxpayer Advocate Service and the agencys nearly 400 taxpayer assistance centers ...
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• reSITE 2013: Livable and Competitive Cities Conference

  
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  reSITE invites investors, business leaders, real estate developers, politicians, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, experts in transportation, innovation, engineers, economists, financiers, community organizers, scientists, artists, students and those with an active interest in urban development and ...
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• Why We’re Broke: Closing Plenary at the Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21

  
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  Charles (Chuck) Marohne, Strong Towns Chuck Marohne , Executive Director of Strong Towns , said that the mechanisms of growth we have become accustomed to are waning. Local governments are forced to absorb the costs of new standards and requirements set by the powers that be. He argued that the current pattern ...
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• Invasive Aesthetics: A Manifesto for Reviving Architectural Identity in Developing Nations

  
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  We have entered an era of ‘modernization’, led by the Western world.  In our times of unprecedented demographic expansion, infrastructural development is racing to meet demand with supply. As architects and designers, we have been pressured to embrace consumerism. Globalization has been adopted as a solution to ...
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• Guerrilla Planning From the Bottom Up: Tactical Urbanism at the Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21

  
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  Mike Lydon, The Street Plans Collaborative Mike Lydon , Principal at The Street Plans Collaborative , opened the session with, “It’s time to redesign the project delivery process… to make urbanism legal again.” He suggested that those who wish to see change should set-up a mock up of your desired ...
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• Sense of Place: Lessons from Elsewhere

  
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  The following is a guest post submitted by Joel Helfrich. Submit your story today. It is through the process of defining what we want as a town that we are becoming a real community. It is through the act of participation that we change. This is not simply a story of not-in-my-backyard. It is the [...]
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• AVA and NParks studying feasibility of sterilisation to manage monkey population

  
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  Channel NewsAsia 12 Jun 13;SINGAPORE: Monkeys have been making headlines for behaving badly and the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) is working with NParks to study the feasibility of sterilisation as a long-term measure to manage the monkey population.The furry critters have been making their presence felt ...
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• The Birth of a City

  
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  How does a city become a city? Some cities start as settlements that slowly (or quickly) grow into the large metropolises we see today, while some are built according to a specific plan. The City of Houston began when the Allen Brothers purchased 6,642 acres of land in August 1836 with the plan to build a great city. ...
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• Crowdsourcing the Evolution of an Industrial Neighborhood: The Granary District’s Journey at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21

  
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  James Alfandre, Kentlands Initiative James Alfandre , Executive Director at the Kentlands Initiative , opened the session by defining crowdsourcing. He thinks of crowdsourcing as an “open call to an undefined group of people.” It’s essentially Wikipedia’s open source model applied to urban revitalization ...
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• Low-income citizens should rent homes: official

  
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  Thanh Thuong Speaking at a web conference on the VND30 trillion home loan package on Tuesday, Nam said those earning around VND6 million a month should access projects with micro apartments of some 30 square meters each, like Viglacera Dang Xa in Hanoi. A home of this size is enough for a couple and their child, he ...
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• Changi Motorsports Hub plan off, says SSC

  
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  Patwant Singh Channel NewsAsia 12 Jun 13;SINGAPORE: The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) confirmed Wednesday it will not proceed with the re-tender for the Changi Motorsports Hub site, effectively putting an end to the ambitious race-track project.This follows the conclusion of an extensive international and local ...
  1 week ago

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