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Urbanism is value: Higher Walk Score means higher neighborhood home values
Submitted by logannash on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 11:41amThanks to a new report put out by CEO's For Cities, there's further statistical evidence for what New Urbanists have been saying for quite a while: people
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High-Speed urbanism: The push against an airport HSR station in Madison
Submitted by logannash on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 4:48pmThankfully, it seems clear that livability and sustainable transportation planning are part of Obama and DOT head Ray LaHood’s plan for Ameri
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What can Detroit learn from Istanbul?
Submitted by logannash on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 12:26pm“When you hear Detroit,” John Norquist told me cryptically yesterday morning, “think Istanbul.” I had just been shown an essay John wrote for the latest issue of the magazine Monocle, a
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Security Measures Are Degrading the Urban (and Human) Experience
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 11:21amSeveral times each day, a military helicopter flies over my house in Washington. It flies much closer to the ground than other aircraft, and it's seriously noisy.
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The Interface Effect: Good Urbanism Spreads
Submitted by burlesona on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 9:32amFor those who remember my previous post on Property Value Theory, today I wanted to share a photographic comparison I made between two urban infill projects of similar age here in Houston.
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In Senate committee hearing, advocates link transportation and land use, discredit O'Toole
Submitted by logannash on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 10:43amStreetsblog's Ryan Avent does an excellent job analyzing yesterday's hearing before the Se
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New numbers prove smart growth reduces CO2, cost-effectively
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 9:27amFor the most part, the climate change establishment - whether in government, industry, or the environmental community - has ignored the potential of land use strategies to provide significant reductio
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#cnu17 Lizz Plater-Zyberk on Coping With Climate Change
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 4:37pmThe climate change discussion always makes Lizz Plater-Zyberk think of two different aphorisms, she said Wednesday during the DPZ pre-Congress workshop on "Settlements for the 21st Century."
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Revitalizing Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine (Part 2 - the Neighborhood's Assets)
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 4:46pmLast week I wrote the first installment of my miniseries about Cincinnati’s remarkable Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.
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See a Google Earth Map, Location and Transportation Assets of an Entire City Declared "In Need of Redevelopment"
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 9:55amGoogle Earth Map Location and Transportation Assets of an Entire City Declared "In Need of Redevelopment"
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