CNU Salons
The Camden NJ Regional Equity Demonstration Project - Rutgers University
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 09/16/2007 - 12:12amAfter 50 years of continuous and accelerating job loss, population flight, propertymarket
decline, plummeting municipal revenues, and civic collapse, Camden has embarked on a
land-redevelopment process of unprecedented proportions, initiated by a state takeover of the city’s municipal functions, Ambitious plans are under way or in the pipelineCivic Engagement in Camden, New Jersey
Obesity-Walkability-New Urbanism Link
Submitted by crandell on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 11:51amIt seems more and more studies these days are making the connection between the built environment and health, and pointing to the challenge we face in improving our communities.
Two recent news stories are a case in point. One covers a study that found a link between gas prices and obesity. Higher gas prices encourage walking and alternative transportation. But another covered a study that exposed a lack of walking amenities in communities. So what do people do when it gets too expensive to drive, but walking, biking, and transit aren't options?
SNU Congress I
Submitted by erfurt4 on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 7:17amTo anyone interested in the first Students for New Urbanism Conference:
This post is to notify you about the first Students for New Urbanism Congress
to be held this October at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Campbell Soup plan challenged again. Campbell Soup deadline to resolve; this Friday, Sept.14.
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 12:36amFiled in the Appellate Division of Superior Court, the suit is the fifth challenge to the proposed expansion of Campbell Soup Co.'s world headquarters here.
Cities Key to Curbing Climate Crisis
Submitted by crandell on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 10:34amAs New Urbanism grows in popularity and programs like LEED-ND start to take off, more people are paying attention to the natural environmental benefits of urbanism...
The Urban Revival
Helping Buffalo Avoid Another Freeway Mistake by the Lake
Submitted by cwoodrow on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 3:45pmJohn Norquist and transportation planner Norm Marshall were in Buffalo, New York late last week, alerting Buffalonians to the ramifications of allowing the NYSDOT to forge ahead with an awful plan to maintain an embanked freeway along the city's Outer Harbor and expand an adjacent frontage road. Norquist urged leaders at all levels to put the heat on Governor Eliot L. Spitzer to halt the just-add-concrete plan and switch to another plan that the DOT studied, one that would replace the freeway and frontage road with a single urban boulevard that would set the stage for revitalized mixed-use neighborhoods.
A new theory of ancient cities
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sat, 09/01/2007 - 6:26pmA new theory of ancient cities
September 1, 2007
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer,By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
...was a full-fledged urban center of about 325 acres. The finds, the researchers wrote, suggest that the study of early urban areas "must accommodate multiple models for the origins of cities." thomas.maugh@latimes.com / Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
EPA Urban Transportation Design Study in Governing Magazine
Submitted by crandell on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 4:46pmA study compared how well old-city street layouts handled traffic versus modern approaches. The results set off a firestorm.
From Governing Magazine
By ALEX MARSHALL
When I drive my neighborhood streets of Brooklyn, which were laid out more than a century ago in a grid style, it’s obvious: These city streets do a better job of handling local traffic than the more modern set up of cul-de-sacs, collector streets and arterials. That’s because, when I’m heading somewhere, I can choose from five or six local streets as opposed to one or two suburban style “arterials.”
Robin Roberts and Good Morning America welcome Pass Christian family to new Katrina Cottage
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 11:47amRobin Roberts was live in her hometown of Pass Christian, MS for the second day in a row today, commemorating the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's destructive collision with the Gulf Coast
Looking at the big picture
Submitted by crandell on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 2:13pmPlanners say entire neighborhoods, not individual buildings, key to payoff of green principles
Charlotte Business Journal - July 6, 2007
by Bea Quirk
"One of the basic principles of ecology is that everything is connected -- that no part of the environment exists in a vacuum.