CNU Salons
Street Connectivity and Crash Safety
Submitted by Laurence Aurbach on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 9:02amThis essay is the first attempt (to the best of my knowledge) to mount a comprehensive counterargument to intersection spacing standards on the grounds of crash safety. Comments and feedback are requested.
Interview with Ellen Dunham-Jones
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 11:18amThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution just ran an interview with CNU Board Member and Georgia Tech Architecture Program Director Ellen Dunham-Jones.
New Urbanism Growing in St. Louis Region
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 11:02amThough it took some time to get going, New Urbanist projects in the sprawling metropolitan St. Louis are slowly densifying the area and lessening automobile-dependence. A St.
Anthony Flint on Massachusetts' "Fix-It-First" Infrastructure Policy
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 10:27amAnthony Flint, of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, has an interesting < a href="http://anthonyflint.net/blog/">blog worth checking out. He is a former writer for the Boston Globe and author of the book "This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America." In light of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, he discusses Massachusetts' philosophy on urban infrastructure projects.
Camden's 18 yr. old Craig Bazan's "Hamlet on the Street," Top "You Tube" Video Week Two: 250,000 views, 1,000 comments.
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 1:55am"Non illegitimus carborundum est"
As CNU moves closer to understanding and addressing the inner city, a proud taste of the inner city from Camden, NJ. www.Youtube.com top video pick of the week. ( 3 minutes)
Why a new urbanist charrette is what TOD-fueled Evanston needs right now
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 11:49amSo what makes a good new urbanist charrette just what Evanston needs at this pivotal point in its history – at this moment when the inner-ring Chicago suburb has become one of the most exciting examples of transit-oriented development in the U.S. yet when vocal longtime residents fear they’re losing the town they knew and loved (even if it had become somewhat frayed in places before the recent burst of redevelopment)?
Southern California Missing the Point on Global Warming
Submitted by Joe Menard on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 10:38amRick Cole, 2007 Charter Award juror and city manager of Ventura, CA, writes a poigniant criticism in the Los Angeles Times of Southern California's planning techniques and environmental strategies. The state remains overwelmingly suburban and auto-centric, and while some developers try to densify L.A., transportation funds continue to be allocated towards freeways and not mass transit. Cole makes a strong point about how fashionable environmentalism, prevalent among L.A.'s celebrity residents, will not reduce air pollution - but sustainable transit planning will.
New deadline for Campbell Soup
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 8:35amWednesday, August 1, 2007
By JIM WALSH
Courier-Post Staff
CAMDEN
City council and the Camden Redevelopment Agency moved Tuesday to extend a key deadline for a controversial redevelopment project at the headquarters of Campbell Soup Co.
Trading places: As the affluent go downtown, the working poor are tripling up to buy homes in the 'burbs.
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 2:10pmBy By William Fulton L.A. Times
July 29, 2007
What's going on here? For a century, people in Southern California moved to the suburbs as they got richer, leaving the more "urban" parts of town to poor people. Now that pattern has reversed itself.Affluent people are leaving the suburbs to live in the city, while the working poor -- people who have jobs but don't earn enough to exceed the poverty line -- are doubling and tripling up in the suburbs to buy houses.
Wealthy towns must have affordable homes
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 8:52amRich communities should not be allowed to outsource their obligation to provide affordable housing.
A plan to stop packing affordable housing into cities is running into opposition from New Jersey League of Municipalities members. Contending the organization is concerned about urban areas losing rehabilitation funds, the league is pushing hard to defeat a proposal by Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts, D-Camden, to end regional contributions agreements. State officials opened this loophole to allow wealthy towns to get out of providing up to 50 percent of their fair share of affordable housing mandated under the Mount Laurel court decisions.