Showing posts with label Urban Planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Planning. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

From CityLab — Why Reston, Virginia
Still Inspires Planners 50 Years Later

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Official Trailer: Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA from Rebekah Wingert-Jabi on Vimeo .   It’s rare for a 1960s suburba...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Jaime Lerner in The New York Times —
How to Build a Sustainable City

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Global warming, drought, migration and population growth have put our cities under heavy strain. What does the future hold for them — and ...
Friday, September 11, 2015

From Project for Public Spaces —
Havana: Learning from and Building
on a People-Centered City

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With improving diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US, the country’s public space, and public life, is poised to evolve in new dire...
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, June 18, 2015

From Better! Cities and Towns —
Form-based codes: What's the deal?

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Form-based codes: What's the deal? The community gets walkable neighborhoods with affordable housing—developers get a streamlined approv...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

#Walkability — planning from the sky vs. designing on the ground

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A great case for #Walkability in this video by @gracenjohnson http://t.co/YdcnHDvOU5 #pedshed — NewUrbanismFilmFest (@NwUrbanFilmFest) Ap...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

From @guardiancities —
Are we seeing the erosion of public space
and access in our cities?

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Post by Nanaimo Commons .
Friday, February 20, 2015

An anti-car General Electric
ad from the 40s....

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An anti-car General Electric ad from the 40s.... pic.twitter.com/MfIvK5y74E — Charles Mudede (@mudede) January 6, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015

#Nanaimo waterfront park lease
referendum upcoming — I share some thoughts with Mayor + Council

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Post by The Sidewalk Ballet . . @NanaimoCommons @1sidewalkballet @DarrellBellaart Time to scale back such a grandiose project. Build a ...

From @TheCurrentCBC —
How to design cities for an aging population‬ @Penalosa_G @KGreenbergTO

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Post by The Sidewalk Ballet .
Saturday, February 7, 2015

From @GOVERNING —
What, exactly, is gentrification?

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What, exactly, is gentrification? An introduction to our special series on the issue. http://t.co/BvpJteq7ZP pic.twitter.com/PtzzbXINkg — G...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

BC Sustainable Energy Association —
BCSEA Kamloops presents Gil Peñalosa Feb 3

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Urban design might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to the BCSEA. Why bring in an urban advisor rather than an energy e...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

60% of families would choose
a smaller home if it was in a walkable
transit-friendly neighbourhood

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60% of families would choose a smaller home if it was in #walkable , transit-friendly neighbourhood pic.twitter.com/M4eW3HvFlv v/ @BrentTod...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

From Brain Pickings — A Love Letter
to Jane Jacobs, Tucked Inside a
Graphic Biography of Robert Moses

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...make no mistake — Moses was no holy hero. The deep flaws of his power-hungry character and the dehumanizing ruthlessness of his industr...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

From The Vancouver Sun — Vancouver swaps parking requirement for car shares

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At the proposed new mixed-use Oakridge Centre there will be up to 75 car share vehicles, purchased by the developer for the Modo car share...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

From Price Tags — Arthur Erickson on
False Creek development – 1983

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Fascinating Jack Webster interview with Arthur Erickson in 1983, discussing the development of B.C. Place (when it was a proposed megaproje...
Monday, October 27, 2014

The (amazing) density of Barcelona Eixample @cnunextgen

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Post by CNU NextGen: The Next Generation of New Urbanists .
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Americans Don't Walk Much
And I Don't Blame Them —
@Kaid_in_DC in @HuffPostGreen

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This won’t be breaking news to most readers, but Americans don’t walk very much. Periodically, National Geographic publishes a 17-nation ...
Friday, September 26, 2014

New Masters of Community Planning Program at @VIUniversity approved
by the province!

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New Masters of Community Planning Program at @VIUniversity approved by the province! The first cohort is planned for September 2015. Pls RT...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

From lewisnvillegas — The City in TED talks

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A collection of 20 minute chats or  Ted Talks  by a wide cross-section of prominent contemporary figures. See them alll at:  The City in TE...