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What if Jane Jacobs had directed "Slumdog"?
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 10:39amIs the slum in the title of the wildly popular Oscar contender Slumdog Millionaire a fetid, altogether inhospitable place that any reasonable person would try desperately to escape?
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Ten Most Enlightened Suburbs - Models for the Future
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 4:56pmAt UTNE Reader Peter Katz and Jay Walljasper outline ten North American communities that are defying the notion of "suburb."
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Calling BP Amoco home, urbanism is
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 3:36pmChicago's newspapers hit the streets today (May 6) with -- among the usual hyperbole and pabulum -- a story to warm the cockles of any new urbanist's heart.... read more »
Take a look at China
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 9:06amIt is an article of faith among some defenders of the sprawl status quo that China is inevitably trending towards sprawl (thus allegedly proving that the human desire for sprawl is universal).
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Canons for Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism on line at cnu.org/canons
Submitted by HDittmar on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 6:01pmElizabeth Moule, Stefanos Polyzoides and I
presented a document at the Green Council that was intended to serve
as a lesser companion to the Charter in the area of green urbanism and
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McKibben on Global Warming, and (New) Urbanism
Submitted by mackean on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 12:48amBill McKibben's recent reviews from the New York Review of Books suggest New Urbanism's potential role in the fight against global warming.
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Sustainability and New Urbanism in the Third World
Submitted by Karja Hansen on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 4:52pmA recent article on WorldChanging.com brought up the subject of sustainable planning and building in third world regions. The article specifically discusses the October 15 8.0 earthquake in the Ica region of Central Andean Peru. The city of Pisco near the epicenter has reportedly lost 80 percent of... read more »