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Gen Y Values Great Neighborhoods Over Great Homes
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 12:41pmHere is an interesting post at Urban Turf indicating that Gen Y prefers a great neighborhood over a great house.
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Neighbors in Los Angeles Advocate for Better Urban Design for Proposed Grocery Store
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 5:35pmLocal residents are fighting a proposed grocery store design along a pedestrian district of Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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LEED-ND and Affordable Neighborhoods
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 12:19amClick here to read a recent post by Kaid Benfield about planning for affordable housing and LEED-ND communities. The NRDC's Affordable Green Neighborhoods grant is an innovative way to combine good design with affordable housing.
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Rail and District Energy: Streets Paved in Better Than Gold
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 1:19pmI'd like to get your opinion: Could use of district energy for heating and cooling help to allow better urban design by increasing value in core area buildings (where it works best)? District energy was a hot topic at Portland's second annual EcoDistricts Summit Oct 25-27, 2010. ... read more »
Sign the petition to save New Orleans' Charity Hospital
Submitted by norabeck on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:50amThe City of New Orleans is grappling with what to do with Charity Hospital. The proposed LSU/VA medical complex would permanently abandon Charity Hospital, leaving one of the most beautiful buildings in the city to sit blighted with no plans for reuse.... read more »
Tax revenue from downtown mixed-use outperforms big-box superstores and malls
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 7:40amAnalysis of property tax revenues from Sarasota, Florida reveals that mixed-use, compact development outperforms Walmarts and conventional shopping malls by a considerable margin when compared on a revenue-per-acre basis. So writes one of our better observers of the built environment, Mary New... read more »
The Sustainable Communities Initiative
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:57pmThe Sustainable Communities Initiative
View article with images, formatting, links and comments at http://blog.sustainableindustries.com/category/built-environment/
MaryVogel | July 21, 2010
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"Mayors Institute" Model Comes to Israel (With a Little Help from CNU)
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 6:52amAiming to import the success of the Mayors Institute on City Design — the National Endowment for the Arts program that has helped prepare more than 800 US Mayors over 24 years to be the "chief urban designers of their cities" — the Movement for Israeli Urbanism hosted the inaugural class of the... read more »
Putting a lid on the Downtown Connector at the Urban Labs luncheon
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 5:41amTalk about power lunching. At yesterday's Urban Labs lunch, at St. Luke's Church, a few minutes' walk from the Hilton, those of us at Table 1-A finished off our box lunches and then within about an hour sketched out a possible solution to a vexing problem of downtown Atlanta - the Downtown Connector... read more »
Food, Energy, Transportation, Urban Design, Climate for an Eternity without Oil!
Submitted by kimgyr on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 8:48pm2. The specific challenges that we must all address are A) the production of food without petroleum – there were approximately 100 million Americans in 1915 and 21.5 million horses (≅5:1) to help
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