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"Shrinking Cities": Let's Be Careful What We Wish For
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 11:51amReaders of a certain age will remember Joni's Mitchell's iconic anthem "Woodstock," celebrating the famous 1969 music festival (which, incidentally, she did not attend, but I digress).
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Tax greenfield development, subsidize infill
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 8:49amI recently ran across a terrific post on T. Caine's sustainability blog Intercon extolling climate change policy to get on the smart growth bandwagon.
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Climate Action Plans: Seeking cities integrating land-use planning
Submitted by Katherine Gregor on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 3:12pmI'm looking for examples of cities that are doing a good job of integrating land-use planning and transportation planning into their municipal climate-action plans. Austin is not!
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3/4-power law
Submitted by norabeck on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 8:44amInteresting guest column in the New York Times on Tuesday, May 19, titled "Math and the City" by Steven Strogatz.... read more »
Federal Stimulus Threatened to Overrun Small Town with Sprawl
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 11:59amAs most readers of CNU's site know only too well, the federal government has a history of subsidizing sprawl, wittingly or not.
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Giving New Meaning to “Green Transit”
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 12:30pmIn the US, we tend to think of public transportation as inherently green, which of course it is compared to our addiction to driving.
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Sustainable Urbanism Module by Farr Associates
Submitted by Sandy Sorlien on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 10:45amThe Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS) announces the availability as freeware of the new Sustainable Urbanism Performance-based SmartCode Module, written by Farr Associates
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TIME Magazine: Recycling Suburbia is #2 "Idea Changing the World Right Now"
Submitted by Dillon Goodson on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 3:31pmTIME Magazine recently released its list of the “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now,” highlighting some of the progressive ideas reshaping the face of our global economy.
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What to do with dying shopping malls
Submitted by Dillon Goodson on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 11:41amFifty years after it was first conceptualized, the American shopping mall is dying off.
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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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