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“Fix it now!”: More Sustainable Airports
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What can we do, now, (outside some fantastical new plane design) to make the process of flying less carbon intensive? Is it possible to reduce the C02 emissions associated with running a large metropolitan airport, while also working to clean up the carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and groundwater contamination near the airport itself?[read more]
Green Roofs at Airports
Although I have written about the green roof Kloten (Zurich) International Airport Dock E, I was thinking about a different type of green roof. What if there were green roofs on jet ways?As I taxied to the gate in Boston, I thought about how hot, cold, or muggy the jet way would be. It is rare, at least in the U.S. airports that I...[read more]
I want to land a dirigible on the Comcast Building; or Airports and Economic Development
By ArielKey to understanding urban growth is the transportation and land use connection. On this blog, Heller and I tend to focus on issues surrounding transit and pedestrian oriented development; the benefit of living near transit or in walkable communities. The size of city blocks, the width of city streets and the availability of...[read more]
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“Did you hear about the event of a thread? Artist Anne Hamilton installed this during winter of 2013. I went with friends and it was a truly surreal experience. Less urbane than EMBARQ's examples, its was a true dance between space and humans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPEcO0bTa0”
“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”