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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”

 

• High Speed Internet

  
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  20/05/2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...adband-not-hs2 Quote: Lets forget HS2 and invest in high-speed broadband instead -- The government should kill its absurd rail plan and lay an optical fibre network – its cheaper and would be the ultimate economic boost Now Im an HS2 ...
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• Edible Landscapes of Attica, Greece

  
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  In Greece, during the last few years, a demand for transparency around food and a need to eliminate the intermediaries, mainly due to poor quality of products in combination to high prices, has resulted in a boom of collective action concerning the production and distribution of food. On the other hand, the ...
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• Successful Public Space: The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in Minnesota Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

  
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  “Great public spaces are where celebrations are held, social and economic exchanges take place, friends run into each other, and cultures mix. They are the “front porches” of our public institutions – libraries, field houses, neighborhood schools – where we interact with each other and government. When the ...
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• Happy National Bike Month

  
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  May is National Bike Month. Biking is seeing a nationwide resurgence due to aggressive policies aimed to promote cycling , and as cities and towns in South Florida join the fold by increasing bike infrastructure, now is a particularly good time to bike in the Miami area. If you have a bike that needs a tune up or ...
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• The business of bike sharing

  
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  To understand the mechanics of the sharing economy, it helps to spend a weekday morning near Dupont Circle. There, hundreds of residents, tourists and commuters pick up or drop off one of the many distinctive red bikes available through the District’s Capital Bikeshare program each day. The 40-bike rack near ...
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• A Walk from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to Brooklyn Bridge Park: The City Past to the City Future

  
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  A morning walk along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade most always seems like a good way to start a day in New York, offering sweeping views of the skyline of Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge. So romantic! The promenade, high above the East River, would make it on my personal top 10 list for visitors to the city, ...
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• Has Auckland Council produced a million dollar shelf document?

  
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  Another post from the Policy Parrot A few weeks back a US based major planning institution published an article on-line about the fallacy of planning and specifically how planning documents mostly never result in success. Those documents are relegated to the consigns of the ‘ million dollar shelf ‘. Here in ...
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• Weekly Review of Transit, Place and Culture in Anime 42

  
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  Welcome to this week’s review of notable instances of transit, place and culture as rendered in anime currently broadcast in Japan and simulcast internationally via the web. For a detailed outline of the approach, please refer to the explanation in the inaugural issue . Links to streaming sources are included when ...
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• Book Review: ‘Detroit City is the Place to Be’ by Mark Binelli

  
  Love Is Dope — Authority: 125
  Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis  by Mark Binelli is a good read.  What I appreciate most about the book is that it is a random-ish collection of “stuff” about Detroit and the surrounding areas (past and present) that is not a woe-is-me/ruin porn take on the city nor is ...
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• The Bike-Sharing Takeover

  
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  Bike sharing has become a staple for urban commuting in city’s all over the world.  Since its reintroduction into urban culture in the 1990s, it has taken on many forms.  Today it is being optimized to serve dense cities to help alleviate traffic congestion, provide people with more transportation options, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Design Students Create a Tool to Map Slums

  
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  Meagan Durlak and James Frankis, both students studying Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons New School for Design , have developed a mobile mapping tool to unveil the true dynamics of informal slum communities, as revealed by Metropolis Magazine . The system, called Mark , is being tested in the Heliopolis favela ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weekly Review of Transit, Place and Culture in Anime 41

  
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  Welcome to this week’s review of notable instances of transit, place and culture as rendered in anime currently broadcast in Japan and simulcast internationally via the web. For a detailed outline of the approach, please refer to the explanation in the inaugural issue . Links to streaming sources are included when ...
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• VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews the Designers of the LowLine Underground Park

  
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  By now, you’ve probably heard of the High Line, but did you know that there is also an underground park called the LowLine proposed for downtown Manhattan? It may have seemed like a pipe dream at first but with many residents backing the project and New Yorkers in awe of what a subterranean park could mean for ...
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• Lecture: 21st Century Urban Renewal in Melbourne – May 13

  
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  21st Century Urban Renewal in Melbourne: The Possibilities & Limits of Planning May 13 / 7 pm Place : Room 1800, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St. Cost: Free, register online This presentation employs the lens of critical geography to assess planning practice and development economics in two ...
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• “Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalour,” a lecture by Professor Simon Thurley [56:09]

  
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  I like architecture and urban planning, so you can see why I am intrigued by this lecture delivered from Gresham College (who has been all about talks open to the public since 1597 [!]) by Proffesor Thurley . This is totally one of those things you can put on and then walk away from, since there are only a few ...
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• Biking in the Motor City: How Detroit, Michigan is Returning to Its Roots

  
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  Maybe one of the biggest surprises you’ll find in Detroit is the presence of a great bike culture. This is surprising for two main reasons: Detroit is the Motor City: a major part of your associations with Detroit deal with the auto industry here, and the impacts of the industry’s elite on transportation and ...
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• Digging Deeper: The Ultimate Queen City Underground Tour

  
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  American Legacy Tours – located at 1218 Vine Street in Cincinnati’s historic Over the Rhine (OTR) – has continued to gain popularity, media attention and distinction since their opening in 2008. The company, founded by a small group of friends, offers a diverse range of engaging walking tours through ...
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• Thanks To Suburbia, The Car Can Never Be The Next Cigarette

  
  The Truth About Cars — Authority: 642
  I have two interests that are often in conflict with one another. One is my love of the automobile. The second is urban planning. Recently, I was reading a response piece to the notion that the car will become the next cigarette, or a similar “socially unacceptable vice”. Derek Kreindler wrote the following in ...
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• Jane’s Dance - Learning sidewalk "ballet" in the South Loop

  
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  As Chicago holds its first-ever "Janes Walk," the South Loop opens itself up. Read more →
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• Washington, DC: Who are the Developers Competing to Repurpose Walter Reed?

  
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  Located in northern Washington , DC, to the east of Rock Creek Park and south of Silver Spring, Maryland, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), once redeveloped, will fuse new commercial establishments and residences into a community of established residential neighborhoods . The Department ...
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