February 2012
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African Cities are Walking Cities, but are they... →
entrappedspaces:
So walking is popular in Africa, but this isn’t because urban African streets are walking-friendly. In fact quite the opposite: 63% of streets in Addis Ababa lack any pavements or sidewalks and crossings are rare. Africans walk despite the un-walkable urban environment, not because of it. Walking isn’t only difficult, it’s also very dangerous with 67% of road accidents...
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For Women, Is Home Really So Sweet?
Such a trend would seem the very image of female empowerment: a single woman buying a home of her own. Whether a middle-age divorcee or a professional in her 30s who has bypassed the marriage-and-baby track—for now, at least—she’s seizing control of her life through real estate. In his eye-opening new book, “Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living...
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Why aren't more people using bike lanes? | The... →
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Why the City Is a Wonderful Place to Raise... →
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Interesting Note:
Since the portfolio video just posted, I should add something. This thursday was our Architecture (+ Planning + Landscape) School Career Fair. There weren’t manny planning booths there, but I asked each one that was what they look for in employees. Do they need to have their masters? They all not only said no, but none of them, including the Senior Principal that I spoke with, had theirs....
WatchStarting Your CRP Portfolio
This is one of my teachers talking about our new-to-me portfolio requirement for graduation. If you don’t have to do this, it is probably a good idea to do it anyway. I suppose. Looking at grad school stuff I have yet to see a place that even accepts portfolios. Have any of you guys used a planning portfolio to get into grad school or to get a job?
See Potential →
study-the-city:
This is a great project happening in Chicago. They’ve already met their Kickstarter goal but any additional fund would be much appreciated!
On January 5th, we reached our initial $10,000 goal, and have since surpassed it! The additional funding will be used to create more installation sites. We are incredibly excited to get started!
See Potential uses documentary...
Familiar with San Francisco? Streetsblog is... →
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Why Women-Only Transit Options Have Caught On
Standing on a crowded Osaka subway platform during a rainy rush hour last month, it was easy to find women willing to talk about why they prefer women-only trains. Chinatsu Kawamoto, an 18-year-old high school senior, offers a typical response.
“I’ve been groped on the train, and I don’t want that to happen again,” she...
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Design o’ the times: Empowering minorities to...
There’s only one problem: Large swaths of our communities are not participating in the design process.
Take architecture. There are about 105,000 registered architects in the United States. According toThe Directory of African American Architects, a database sponsored by the Center for the Study of Practice at the University of Cincinnati, there are 1,829 licensed African American architects in...
you!
Get over to twitter and search #citytalk add the hashtag to your tweet and join our world-wide conversation on housing! (2pm EST is when it started!)
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I'm going to be researching in INDIA this summer!
I just got notified that I was one of five winners of Knowlton School of Architecture’s Architecture Research Travel Award this year!!!!
I only saw the notification for the call-for-submissions the day before it was due, so I had to hurry and throw together a 3 page travel proposal, detailed schedule and budget, plus transcripts and resume, etc (This is why it’s good to have such...
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Designing a Fix for Housing
Too often during the bubble, banks and builders shunned thoughtful architecture and urban design in favor of cookie-cutter houses that could be easily repackaged as derivatives to be flipped, while architects snubbed housing to pursue more prestigious projects.
But better design is precisely what suburban America needs, particularly when it comes to rethinking the basic residential categories...
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How Copenhagen became a winter city: presentation... →
irishboyinlondon:
Nice presentation with good images!
I love the public blankets!
Public Transportation's Hidden Gender Imbalance
healthycal:
A new Stanford study says women ride transit more often than men. How can we better accommodate their needs?
Recommendations include:
Accommodating women with stroller and bags by replacing stairs with ramps, widening aisles or gates, and raising platforms to train level
Designing transit stops around schools and parks.
Increase female representation of local, state, and...
Tent City
superfluouscity:
What does a temporary tent city for 3 million people look like? A recent visit to Expo 2010 in Shanghai clued me in to what is probably the largest ephemeral urban design in the world, the Mina Tent City in Saudi Arabia, erected each year to house Hajj pilgrims visiting Mecca during the last month of the lunar Islamic calendar. — Via bricoleurbanism
Image and...
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starkca3 answered: what are you looking for in a first interview?
I’m looking for people who have a job that they enjoy in urban planning or related fields, or people who studied within those fields and are using that knowledge in surprising ways. I think a lot of planning students only hear about one kind of job possibility (planner within the city government) and mostly hear about the...
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Topics? Questions?
We are mostly students and young professionals in city planning and related fields, right? Right. So, I am going to start posting like it. I have a few ideas already, but are there any issues, questions or topics that you guys are interested in? I’m already planning on doing some interviews with professionals in the field (what would you like to ask them?), and perhaps some reviews on...
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Thanks for your input, guys! Finally put together... →
January 2012
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Why Are There So Many Gang Members in Chicago?... →
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Helpful blogs for planning students?
I am compiling a post of the top 10 blogs/twitters to follow for urban planning students to get a less academic taste for planning issues in the real world. Which do you think are the most informative and readable? I follow basically everyone in the profession so I am facing a paralysis of choice. =\
Feel free to say yourself if relevant!