October 2011
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Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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Complete Streets: Active Transportation, Safety... →
Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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The World’s Coolest Subway Stations
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Oct 25th
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If you’re under the age of 25, it’s likely that the most expensive product you’ve ever purchased is a car. And by “most expensive”, we’re probably talking an easy 10-15 times the next most expensive thing. If you didn’t need a car, that’s easily a couple hundred extra dollars in your pocket each week after fuel, insurance, registration, and repairs. Now imagine you’re at the poverty line with...
Oct 25th
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What Awful Reality TV and Suburban Living Have to...
While there’s a great deal of diversity of suburbs—some are iconoclastic and some are quite walkable—the average American suburb has been notable for decades for an isolating geography and culture. Your average suburban/exurban home is set away from its neighbors with no porch or sidewalks, and suburbanites enter and exit their homes in cars that are parked in garages, minimizing...
Oct 25th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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Cuts in transit could add to poverty levels in... →
Oct 23rd
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#Cities Rethink How To Combat Crime
urbanrelationinfo: For years, Wanda Perry was scared to visit her family in Chad Brown, a housing project in Providence that had long been known as a violent drug haven. In 2008, police began trying a strategy that combined traditional enforcement with more community involvement, more social services and second chances for a select few non-violent dealers. “It changed a hell of a lot,” said...
Oct 23rd
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Oct 22nd
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Captain Plan→it: sprnvasidr: captainplanit: There... →
monpointdevue: sprnvasidr: captainplanit: There doesn’t happen to be any tricks to re-creating an area of a city in SketchUp is there? I tried tracing a picture once, but my heights are way off scale. Now i’m trying to measure distances in google earth & redraw everything in SketchUp, but EXTREME… If you use the Add Location tool in sketchup to grab your aerial, it’ll keep everything...
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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sprnvasidr: captainplanit: There doesn’t happen to be any tricks to re-creating an area of a city in SketchUp is there? I tried tracing a picture once, but my heights are way off scale. Now i’m trying to measure distances in google earth & redraw everything in SketchUp, but EXTREME TEDIUM. =\ My area is not regular at all. Are there any tricks I’m missing? What are you trying to do? I...
Oct 22nd
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There doesn’t happen to be any tricks to re-creating an area of a city in SketchUp is there? I tried tracing a picture once, but my heights are way off scale. Now i’m trying to measure distances in google earth & redraw everything in SketchUp, but EXTREME TEDIUM. =\ My area is not regular at all. Are there any tricks I’m missing?
Oct 22nd
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Oct 21st
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American public housing: Why the Pruitt-Igoe... →
Oct 21st
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Rahm Emanuel Brings Congestion Pricing to Chicago →
thegreenurbanist: Congestion pricing - good. Privatizing water - very very very bad. See- Flow: How did a handful of corporations steal our water? Agreed. Just yesterday my humanitarian engineering seminar was discussing the Bolivian Water Wars.Have we not learned anything?
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Rahm Emanuel Brings Congestion Pricing to Chicago →
Oct 20th
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Columbus: City of Design? (Yes, please!!) →
Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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Awesome: Use Walk Score to find apartments based... →
Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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“We spend 90 percent of our time indoors and five percent in our cars. Yet human...”
–  Trevor Hancock, senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy, quoted in the article, ‘Soaking up nature may help cure what ails you’.   (Photo credit: NRDC)
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 17th
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In Nimby Sentiments, a Gender Divide
A consulting firm that conducts an annual poll on public attitudes toward development has come up with a new twist on Nimbyism: women are far more likely than men to fight proposals to build new power plants, shopping malls and big-box stores. According to a nationwide telephone survey of 1,000 people last June by the Saint Consulting Group, support for local projects with potentially negative...
Oct 17th
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Oct 16th
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Texas city’s government uses 100% renewable energy →
Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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Bipartisan Infrastructure Coalition Urges Creation... →
Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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Car-free Sunday for smog-struck Milan →
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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Florida Repeals it's Smart Growth law →
Oct 11th
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Found via: Urban Forests = Cleaner, Cooler Air 
Oct 11th
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Oct 10th
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Height limits produce a positive externality
I am in DC and have walked around again. The density feels right for a city, much like Tokyo, London and Paris (all notable for a lack of overly tall buildings). In DC, the buildings are not too tall and canyon like, and there are few vacant lots in the core. What do height limits do? The restrict buildings over X stories. Thus more buildings less than or equal to X stories are built over a...
Oct 10th
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#occupypublicspace!
So today I was back in my hometown of Dayton taking pictures for my Urban Design project, and we were stopped at a light right at the #occupydayton protests. We cheered and talked to them out the window but didn’t have time to get out of the car, although I wanted to. Not only to support the conversation (protesting (or as I like to call it “active democracy”) is somewhat of a...
Oct 10th
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Cramped Chicago: Half of the city's 2.7 million...
 Many of these areas have so little parkland that it is no exaggeration to call them “park deserts,” a name that suggests a similarity to “food deserts,” where healthy, affordable food is hard to obtain. Indeed, the park deserts extract a comparable human toll, denying children and adults a place to exercise, cutting them off from contact with nature, and robbing them of...
Oct 9th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 7th
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Urban Density and Market Demand →
urbnist: From Urbanophile: “I read articles out on the net with the general theme of claiming that a cabal of planners is conspiring to force us all to move back into overcrowded tenements in order to recognize their dream of reurbanizing America. There’s no doubt that plenty of progressives write about how people ought to more or less be forced back into the city and would gladly do it if...
Oct 5th
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