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How Bicycling and Walking Directly Impacts Health

January 24, 2012 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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Pedestrian and bicycle projects receive less than 2 percent of federal transportation dollars in the U.S. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. While obesity levels increased by 156 percent between 1960 and 2009, bicycling and walking levels fell by 66... [read more]

Is Europe is more naturally sustainable than America?

January 24, 2012 by Tyler Caine
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Do European cities have a more natural predisposition towards sustainability than American ones? Is age the only reason? [read more]

Has Congestion Pricing Lost its Buzz?

January 24, 2012 by This Big City
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It’s 2004. Despite initial resistance to the idea being fierce, London has had a congestion charge for a year, and by the most important metrics, it’s been a success. Mayor Ken Livingston has been reciting statistics to anyone who will listen,... [read more]

Why Indiana is doing better than it thinks

January 27, 2012 by Jim Russell
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It’s almost as if they’re gonna get smarter by locating to an urban area. - David Audretsch, Indiana University professor of economic developmentIndiana is dying. Desperate Rust Belt times require desperate Sun Belt measures. The state wants to give its residents the right to work. What's the rush? All the brains are leaving:Q: What... [read more]

How measuring e-mails can reduce greenhouse gas emissions

January 26, 2012 by Green Buildings Alive
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Our last post asked what we might draw from a global study of 500 million ‘tweets’ which found people are happiest in the morning – at almost precisely the time when complaints about the air conditioning in office buildings peak. The author of the twitter study, Scott Golder, commented “It looks like people send AC requests the same time... [read more]

The Economics of Sustainable Cities: Four Key Components

January 26, 2012 by This Big City
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After asking lots of questions about the economics of sustainable cities in last week’s blog post, we turned to Twitter to try and find some answers. During the very first #CityTalk - a monthly tweetchat launched by me and the chaps at Future Cape Town – we got caught up in a seriously fast-paced discussion on the subject, with... [read more]

Driverless Cars: What’s Holding Back the Automobile of the Future?

January 25, 2012 by Bob Leonard
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As convenient as cars are, each and every one of us has gotten frustrated at the unbearably slow driver in the left lane or the rude driver who refuses to drive any farther than two feet away from your rear bumper. Unsafe driving practices such as these cause traffic jams, accidents, and deaths every single day on our roads and highways... [read more]

Could Manufacturing be coming back?

January 25, 2012 by Next American City
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We could use industry, though not necessarily the auto industry. Credit: National Buildings MuseumAmong the topics covered in last night’s State of the Union, President Obama outlined a plan to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. by cutting taxes for businesses that relocate to American soil. Meanwhile, companies that maintain... [read more]

Could Twitter Help Us Create Smarter Transit?

January 25, 2012 by Jack Mason
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Could Twitter Help Us Create Smarter Transit Routes? “Traditional city maps visualize just one aspect of urban design—the city’s intended structure, full stop. But add in a layer that visualizes how people actually use the city, and then the map becomes much more interesting. Eric Fischer did exactly that when he used Twitter’s... [read more]

San Francisco & Medellin win 2012 Sustainable Transport Award

January 25, 2012 by Rashiq Fataar
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San Francisco, USA and Medellin, Colombia, are the two winners of the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. The other nominees, Cape Town, South Africa and Buenos Aires, Argentina both received an Honourable Mention award. Already in its 8th year, the Sustainable Transport Awards (... [read more]

A Rating System for the Built Environment

January 25, 2012 by The Dirt ASLA
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The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) has announced the first three projects to be certified by the nation’s most comprehensive system for rating the sustainable planning, design, construction, and maintenance of built landscapes. The corporate headquarters of an international manufacturing company, a new university green... [read more]

Is your state a Talent Migration Loser?

January 25, 2012 by Jim Russell
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If people vote with their feet, then Texas is a loser ... in the world of higher education. A journalist for the Washington Post crunched the numbers of the high school graduate college migration. The worst "brain drain" is in New Jersey. Texas is a distant second.There are a bunch of tasty data morsels in this blog post. There's a link... [read more]

How a rain garden cleans industrial pollution

January 25, 2012 by Kaid Benfield
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  (Note: Today’s post was conceived and largely authored by my friend and frequent collaborator, Lee Epstein.  Lee is an attorney, land use planner, and sustainability advocate working in the mid-Atlantic region.) As NRDC’s water program rightfully emphasizes, one of the most vexing conundrums in highly urban areas is how to... [read more]

Rio de Janeiro unveils its first BRT station

January 25, 2012 by Rashiq Fataar
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The benchmark station on Estrada do Magarça will be available for public viewing before it starts operating, so that the population can test and learn about the system. With 10 regular turnstiles and two adapted for wheelchair users, the station was designed to take advantage of the natural ventilation, featuring a long cover and... [read more]

Can Transportation Modeling Decrease Emissions?

January 24, 2012 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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At the 91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, there have been a number of sessions focusing on transportation, public health and emissions. The discussion in recent years of the link between the three has now moved into the area of policy and modeling. Modeling tools are now available to estimate emissions and air pollution from transportation models [read more]

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