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NRDC's Smarter Cities Project Wants Your Input on Sustainability Criteria
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 11:11amAs some of you may know, Smarter Cities is an initiative that ranks US cities on a number of key sustainability criteria as well as on overall sustainabili
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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 Geography of Carbon Emissions from Driving, with Maps
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 10:27amThe Center for Neighborhood Technology is releasing today a new series of GIS-based maps show
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Why the housing slump hasn't hit New York or San Francisco
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 9:09amInteresting article in today's New York Times Magazine at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/keymagazine/406Lede-t.html?...
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CNU XV Blog, Part 12: Duany on cities vs. suburbs
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 4:49pmThis afternoon, Andres Duany spoke about the relationship between cities and suburbs.
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yes, a city can get families
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 10:20pmSome people have argued that even if compact cities are terrific at attracting single people, they will never attract well-off families. But an article in today's N.Y, Times
(at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/nyregion/23kid.html) suggests that if a city is attractive enough and compact enough, i... read more »
Kotkin bashes urbanism
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 3:33amJoel Kotkin is one of America’s most prolific commentators on urban affairs. At first glance, he appears to support something very much like New Urbanism. According to one newspaper story quoted on Kotkin’s website, he favors “suburbs that are not defined by sprawl but a sense of community.... read more »
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