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PDX Climate Action Plan Lacking Urban Design Focus
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Fri, 07/10/2015 - 5:10pmJune 24, 2015 Testimony of Mary Vogel, PlanGreen to Portland City Council
[This blog was originally posted to my PlanGreen blog where there are already some comments posted. I would be delighted if you would add your comments there as well!]
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Pope Francis' Laudato Si and New Urbanism
Submitted by jgolbabai on Sat, 06/20/2015 - 6:45amIn case you all haven't read it already, Pope Francis' Laudato Si released this week talks very directly on many New Urbanist themes, taken almost directly from the Charter. If anyone is interested in getting together and talking about this document in more detail, please let me know.
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What Robert Moses Got Right (And Kansas City Got Wrong)
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 06/09/2015 - 11:52amRobert Moses is most famous (or perhaps infamous) for paving over large chunks of New York City with highways. But he also built and rehabilitated thousands of acres of parks and playgrounds; and in this area his contribution to the city was more unambiguously positive.
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Reading Le Corbusier in 2015
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 03/03/2015 - 8:41pmI just finished reading Concerning Town Planning, a short book of essays by Le Corbusier. Before reading this, all I knew about him was a few key phrases: "Radiant City" and "towers in a park." And Le Corbusier did indeed like high-rises surrounded by greenery.
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worst practices: vanishing medians
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 08/06/2014 - 10:56amOne thing that can make suburban roads less intolerable for pedestrians is a large median, so that the pedestrian can cross a huge road two or three lanes at a time, instead of having to cross an entire six- or eight-lane highway in one mad dash.
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Photo Blog: New Faubourg Lafitte in New Orleans
Submitted by Clara Steyer on Fri, 06/20/2014 - 5:25pmIn 2012, Urban Design Associates (UDA) was awarded a Charter Award for their project The New Faubourg Lafitte in New Orleans. The project is a redevelopment and rehabilititaiton of a 27-acre superblock public housing that had been badly damaged by hurricane Katrina. CNU praised the collaboration wit... read more »
The Magic Kingdom of Hartford
Submitted by barefooturbanist on Wed, 06/04/2014 - 8:26am THE ‘’MAGIC KINGDOM’ OF HARTFORD
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Turn Lanes Are Anti-Pedestrian & Therefore Anti-Urban
Submitted by jmassengale on Tue, 05/20/2014 - 2:08pmA NEW YORK CITY MTA Bus almost ran me over this morning as I WALKED my bike in a crosswalk with a green light. Before he almost ran me over the driver honked at me, loudly, to tell me to get out of his way. And I repeat, I was walking in a crosswalk, with the walk light.
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Dingbats and "Scarchitecture"
Submitted by Tim Halbur on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 4:29pmThe Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is in the throes of Kickstarting a book they're calling Dingbat 2.0. For those who don't know, the dingbat is a housing type that proliferated in the Western U.S. in the 50s and 60s, driven primarily by increased parking requirements. As you ca... read more »
Steps vs. The Elderly
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:44amI am currently reading White Flight/Black Flight by Rachael Woldoff of West Virginia University. The book discusses a neighborhood at the edge of a northern city (Philadelphia, I suspect) which was overwhelmingly Jewish as late as 1990, and became black in the 1990s. One area of interest... read more »