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Three Reasons That Bikeshare Stations Are Ideal Triangulators

May 9, 2012 by Project for Public Spaces
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People chatting at their local bike share station in Melbourne, Australia / Photo: Planetgordon.com via FlickrWith yesterday’s big announcement from the NYC DOT, bike shares are in the news again. Here in New York, we’re getting excited about the possibilities on the horizon as hundreds of bike share stations start popping up all over... [read more]

Parks that Embrace the City

April 29, 2012 by polis blog
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Photo Source: NonProfitMarketing360

Gazing out onto the city. Source: SpecialKRBMany parks are designed to provide a sense of escape from the city, through separation from the bustle of street life. On the other hand, parks like the High Line engage creatively, offering new ways of seeing and interacting with the urban landscape. The city becomes a feature... [read more]

Brooklyn Bridge Park: New York’s Latest Innovative Harbor Attraction

April 5, 2012 by City Parks Blog
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One of New York’s newest parks, Brooklyn Bridge Park blends the historic with the latest in landscape innovation to create what the weblog Gothamist calls “the most spectacular and stunning addition to the city’s parks system in recent memory.” Located on the site of a former port that shuttered in the 1980s due to dramatic shifts in... [read more]

Scaling the Urban Future by Blending the Urban Past

March 22, 2012 by Chuck Wolfe
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How will the city of tomorrow reflect adaptive reuse of the city of today?I don’t think we ask that question broadly enough, and our day-to-day, property-specific incrementalism can easily overshoot the greatest lessons from history for today’s city politics, regulation and economic constraints.A hometown case in point, last month,... [read more]

Will the Real Green Colleges Please Stand Up?

March 21, 2012 by Kaid Benfield
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Today’s post is guest-authored by my friend and frequent collaborator, Lee Epstein. Lee is an attorney and land use planner working for sustainability in the mid-Atlantic region. [read more]

Neighborhood Nomad: Anita of Ottawa

March 10, 2012 by Kate Gallery
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This is one in a series of reader interviews about the places and spaces people call home. Why leave behind the beaches of Australia for a life back in Ottawa? Anita Mac has plenty of reasons. Anita blogs about her explorations both at home in Canada and along the road, and she agreed to give us insight into what makes Ottawa a... [read more]

Will Seattle Swallow Its New Waterfront Park Design?

February 15, 2012 by Brian Kalthoff
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Former Seattle Mayor, Charles Royer, is commonly credited saying that Seattle is a city that knows how to chew, but does not know how to swallow—and if it does swallow, it retains the right to regurgitate whatever it has swallowed.  Never has that perception been so accurate as to decribe the process surrounding replacing the... [read more]

A second winner at this year's Super Bowl: the walkable downtown

February 10, 2012 by Kaid Benfield
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  I’ve had several occasions in the past three years or so to travel to Indianapolis, site of last Sunday’s Super Bowl.  I am always struck, riding in from the airport, by how well Lucas Oil Stadium, where this year’s NFL championship game was held, fits architecturally within (or right next to, depending on your perspective)... [read more]

How Bogotá Inspired Sustainable Cities Across the Globe

February 10, 2012 by This Big City
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About fourteen years ago, Bogotá was seen as the world-famous capital of narcotraffic and guerrillas. Foreigners used to see the city as one the most dangerous places to travel and live in Latin America. Despite our high quality coffee, marihuana and cocaine also represented some of our traditional products of exportation. In 1998, Bogot... [read more]

TreeEconomics –Who Says Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees?

February 8, 2012 by William Carson
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Why adding trees to your urban environment is like putting money in the bank. Awesome! [read more]

Performance-Based Energy Code Does Not Eliminate Threat of Preemption

February 2, 2012 by Shari Shapiro
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Yesterday, I posted that the District of New Mexico had issued a decision on the remaining open issues in the AHRI v. City of Albuquerque case.  In the 1970's, the Federal government enacted minimum efficiency standards for certain HVAC equipment, which have been updated periodically since.  In 2007, the... [read more]

How Greenways Create Healthy Communities

January 31, 2012 by City Parks Blog
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This post explores using greenways as the connector to parks, neighborhoods, schools and mixed-use centers, allowing for urban and rural ideas to merge and produce a superior hybrid community form. [read more]