Showing posts with label Economic Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic Development. Show all posts
Thursday, July 21, 2016

From Strong Towns — Historic buildings
get newer, greener lease on life

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The story of Peggy and Tom Brennan who recently renovated and opened two unique buildings in downtown Detroit: the Green Garage , a business...
Friday, July 8, 2016

From The Nature of Cities —
Common threads: connections among
the ideas of Jane Jacobs and Elinor Ostrom

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Jane Jacobs and Elinor Ostrom were both giants in their impact on how we think about communities, cities, and common resources suc...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Jane Jacobs' "big R&D lab" in downtown Toronto industrial sites redevelopment

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20 years ago Jane Jacobs was given the chance to put her ideas into practice in the renewal of two large downtown Toronto in-decline indus...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Richard Florida in CityLab —
Inner-City Growth and Competition

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Two new studies explore the movement of businesses and people back to the city, but outside the central business district. Over the past d...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

From Business in Vancouver —
How Expo 86 changed Vancouver

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World’s fair left key infrastructure legacies and turned a large tract of industrial land into an urban streetscape praised worldwide. It ...
Friday, April 8, 2016

From Strong Towns —
Why mixed-income neighborhoods matter
Lifting kids out of poverty

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There’s a hopeful new sign that how we build our cities, and specifically, how good a job we do of building mixed income neighborhoods tha...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

From DougSaunders.net — Citizen Jane

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OCTOBER 11, 1997  It’s easy enough to find her. Just stroll westward past the bookstores and cafés of Bloor St and head north on leafy Alb...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

From Planetizen — The Power of
Jane Jacobs' "Web Way of Thinking"

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On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Michael Mehaffy refuted the co...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

The Economy of Cities

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Jane Jacob's economics thought is often condensed as something called "import replacement." More accurately it can be said to ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

"Something special about cities with
compact urban places, they stimulate innovation, entrepreneurship,
create opportunities"

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—@globeandmail @shanedingman “something special about cities w/ compact urban places stimulate innovation, entrepreneurship create opportuni...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Jane Jacobs / Systems of Survival
A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of
Commerce and Politics chapters four, five

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“…science needs the same values and precepts as commerce. Honesty is the bedrock of science. Moral rules for research are: don’t lie, do...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Jane Jacobs / Systems of Survival
A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics chapter three

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Armbruster's  group has been unable to identify behaviour systems  other   than the two presented by Kate.  In Chapter Two they get a ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

In the mail this morning...

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In the mail this morning... pic.twitter.com/RflkqcaPej — TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) June 10, 2015 @1sidewalkballet Sorry f...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

From Price Tags —
Ed Glaeser (“Triumph of the City”)
on Vancouver… and Sam Sullivan

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Georgetown row house block; courtesy of the Congress for the New Urbanism Ed Glaeser (“Triumph of the City”) on Vancouver … and Sulliv...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

From Next City — We Put 31 Artists,
25 Architects and 18 Urban Planners in a Room. Guess What Happens Next...

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Credit:  Ashton Lance The team: 31 artists and designers, 25 architects and housing experts, 23 community members, 18 urban planners, 11...
Monday, April 20, 2015

From The Atlantic — Nice Downtowns:
How Did They Get That Way? "It wasn't easy"

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JAMES FALLOWS I had anticipated some of the rewards and discoveries of visiting cities in the process of economic and cultural recovery a...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

From Price Tags —
How Vancouver does successful retail

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Sam Newberg – known as ‘Joe Urban’ – sent this request to Price Tags:   We’re having a crisis of urban design in Minneapolis. ( How t...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Parking Madness 2015! It's depressing
what we've done to downtowns
@schmangee @StreetsblogUSA

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Sorted through 26 N. American parking craters this year to make this list. http://t.co/ZoPInUpVFg pic.twitter.com/xiKKlMphxy — Angie Schm...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

From On the Commons —
The Promise of Co-ops
Connecting with the Commons

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Is it possible to imagine a new sort of synthesis or synergy between the emerging peer production and commons movement on the one hand, an...
Friday, February 20, 2015

From Planetizen —
Economic Thinking for Planners

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This course shows how "Economic Thinking" can inform our thinking on big questions like why some countries are rich while some a...