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• in Business
  Aerotropolis: The Way We Will Live Next
  Kasarda's Law Says Technology Is Changing The World, But Not How You Think
  by ScentTrail / on Aug 20, 2011
• in Green
  $53 Billion - Too Much or Not Enough? The Debate over High Speed Rail
  The debate over $53 Billion that would deliver High Speed Rail to 80% of the population divides down political and ideological lines.
  by jreinh01 / on Feb 8, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “urban planning”

 

• Taichung Cultural City Center Competition Entry / de Architekten Cie.

  
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  The proposal for the Taichung Cultural City Center by de Architekten Cie. is composed of a well-defined system of voids as the museum and the library are designed as a flexible structure to be able to follow frequent changes in museum and library philosophy. Lifts and escalators are built into both buildings to ...
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• Give us back our public spaces

  
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  This superb article on public space and cities by Will Hutton appeared in the  Guardian  on Sunday, June 16. I’ve reprinted it here in full. Hutton explains why cities are starting to look the way they do by pointing to various financial behaviours. Worth reading the whole thing. I’m not sure about the ...
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• How Nextdoor and NYC Will Pioneer Socially Networked Crime Fighting

  
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  Can you imagine what it would be like to report crimes via Facebook or call for a fire truck through Twitter? It would be pretty convenient, right? None of that scary "Call 911!" business. No ambling down to the precinct to fill out paperwork. No need to leave your living room at all, actually. It would be equivalent ...
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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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• When Urban Planning Gets Political: The History of Taksim Square

  
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  Over the last two weeks, the world has witnessed history unfold in a small park in the heart of Istanbul, Taksim Square .  What started out as a peaceful protest to save Gezi Park and its trees from destruction has turned into a country-wide (and, to some degree, worldwide) movement that rejects the ever-increasing ...
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• On Tuesday, took a stroll near the United Center

  
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  Near Madison/Paulina A day before the Stanley Cup Final series commenced between the Chicago Black Hawks and Boston Bruins, I decided to go by the United Center (UC). I took a number of photos on my phone near there and posted them to my instagram (@levois). I was under the Paulina Connector that routes CTA ...
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• Balconies bring quality to urban life

  
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    A plant adorned balcony provides outdoor place, access to food  and improves the ambiance of a dense urban environment. T he gardening time of year has arrived once again and Im missing out because, living in a 80 unit mixed-use and transit accessible unit, I dont have private outdoor space for ...
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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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• We Are Hardwired for Loving Nature

  
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  Why are streets with trees better received than those without? Why is dappled light through leaves more pleasant than sun beating against the pavement? What is our affiliation to rolling streams and bubbling brooks? Why do little kids love playing in piles of fall leaves? According to biologist E.O. Wilson, the answer ...
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• DAB EXCLUSIVE: First Look at Broadstone On The Lake (former RunTex store)

  
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  Cities evolve.  Few quite as visibly as Austin over the past couple of decades. We’ve got the first look at what’s coming to the site of the former RunTex store at S. 1st and Riverside Drive.  Demo permits were approved last month, and fencing has been erected around the site. In its place, a six-story [...]
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• The Future Cities Are Smart Cities

  
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  In the midst of rapid technological innovation, our cities are becoming “smarter.” We may have passed the first part of the digital revolution, but the fact stands that technology is now an inseparable part of our lives. Smart cities around the globe are adopting new digitally based infrastructure and introducing ...
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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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• CID Lives

  
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  If your future dream involves a shopping excursion to the Crossroads Art District in Kansas City , it may cost you a little bit more thanks to a proposed Community Improvement District (CID) for the area. CIDs are another example of the alphabet soup of special taxing districts in Missouri. Sing it with me : ...
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• Lets Hug It Out: Rainey Street Traffic

  
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  With the increasing amount of construction happening in the Rainey Street District, I think we have seen the last of the Google Villages and such taking the neighborhood over – at least for a while. I’m going to lay out a summary of the transportation plan here first, then drop my two cents in the [...]
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• Managing Growth: Integrating Land Use and Transportation Planning

  
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  Metro Vancouver Sustainability Community Breakfast at BCIT downtown Wednesday June 12 at 7:30am I went along to this outreach event. The link above should also eventually link to the presentations as these are made available some time after the meeting – look at the top left of the screen that opens for ...
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• WIC food funding moratorium hurts new grocery stores in California

  
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  By Jesse McKnight, The Saint Consulting Group Price-gauging vendor abuse in California by convenience stores that charge $7 for a gallon of milk or $25 for a box of cereal has led the federal government to suspend granting licenses for WIC (Women, Infants and Children) subsidized food shopping to grocery stores ...
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• Royal Botanic Garden Sustainable Masterplan Proposal / Grant Associates

  
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  Grant Associates , the UK landscape architects behind Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, has just been appointed by the Royal Botanics and Domain Trust in Sydney to help develop a new sustainable masterplan for the historic Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and adjacent public Domain. Working alongside Cox Richardson ...
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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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• Building Momentum for Bicycling in New Orleans

  
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  This past May 2013, New Orleans received a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community award from the League of American Bicyclists. Undoubtedly, the award was well deserved. New Orleans now has almost 2% of its population commuting by bike , and the city has gone from fewer than ten miles of designated bikeways before ...
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• Safe Cycling in South Lake Tahoe: Making Bicycle Education a Part of the Solution

  
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  Hands down, I live in biking Mecca. From taking in the scenic overlooks from the view of my road bike, to getting lost in nature on all the different mountain bike trails that the area has to offer, Tahoe is truly a dream for a bicycle enthusiast. In the Sierra Region cycling of all sorts, from commuting to ...
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