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URBAN PLANNING
The new wave of urban planning -- urbanism -- is decidedly anti-Suburbia. It’s also anything but new. But its urban planning principles are gaining new life as Americans grapple with higher energy, food, and other household costs. Architects, urban planners, and academics are redefining what’s now needed to create vibrant mixed-use towns and cities out of a discipline that started 25 years ago.
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The University of Cambridge has announced plans to create a new post which will give students, researchers and the...
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers...
Urban farming is spreading around the world and is becoming a vital part of the urban food supply, producing many...
Discovering Urbanism has an posted excellent blog post on the 1916 textbook ‘City Planning with Special Reference to...
I recently started reading ‘Fixing Broken Cities’ by John Kromer and so far have been enthralled with a great deal of...
It has been sometime since my last blogpost but it cannot come in a more opportune time than to talk more about rail...
The National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Recovery Act - Local Energy Assurance Planning (LEAP) Initiative is...
I often frequent the Cyburbia urban planning message board (http://www.cyburbia.org) and recently found a rather...
agenda. Now, as we prepare for the first urban Presidency in decades, there are major changes afoot in urban planning...
It’s time to move on and create a green land plan that and has never seemed to emerge in total. Remember the first time...
As a public commentator on suburban sprawl issues I’ve been engaged in a low-grade war of ideas with the environmental...
Sorry for the long delay between blog posts. I don’t like to go into personal details on the blog, however as of three...
The world’s largest solar PV conference was held September 21-25, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. I had a chance to attend...
Short post this week. According to the Washington Post, the newly elected Barack Obama, soon to be the president of the...
Explains how TOD works and why it is good for economic justice and the environment
Now is the time to retrofit suburban communities that we’ve already built--not abandon them.
For some reason, comparing statistics such as the property values or the crime rates in cities fascinates me.
Living in a city can help lower your carbon footprint!
Every real estate developer and urban planner knows that Portland, Oregon rocks. It is probably our best civic example...
Time is ripe for high speed rail's advanced studies and implementation. Also some random thoughts on "smart"...
If we ever harbored the sentiment that Dubai’s dubious construction blitz would slow in times of economic unrest, the...
The time has finally come, some writers are predicting, when Americans will finally repent. They’ll move back to the...
It is prettty much a fact of life that not all cities can be growing. While some cities may have a growing economy and...
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- onstreetlevel.wordpress.com
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- Globe Investor
- orionmagazine.org
- worldchanging.com
- inhabitat.com
- Libertarian Blog Place
- thegroundfloor.typepad.com
- onstreetlevel.com
- inhabitat.com
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