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What Placemakers Can Learn from Bike/Ped Advocates
An interview with Mark Plotz, the director of the National Center for Bicycling and Walking, a resident program of the Project for Public Spaces.[read more]
Why Ordinary Urban Experiences Motivate Change
One of my favorite motivational scenes, that inspires city reinvention, is the one above. The photo shows the first part of the Nice, France tramway—a city-center transit line which has helped change an automobile-oriented downtown. Experiencing this image in real-time, applying the full range of human senses, compelled my...[read more]
Remembering Steve Jobs, Land Use Advocate
Steve Jobs’ last public appearance was as a land use advocate, presenting plans for Apple’s circular new headquarters to the Cupertino City Council just four months ago tomorrow. “Pretty cool” and “like a spaceship has landed” made the news last June, because Jobs was talking like pundits expected, while framing the rollout of...[read more]
The Complexities of a Biking Transition and the New York City Backlash
New York City's new-ish First Avenue bike lane. On November 22 and November 23, 2010, The New York Times gave biking in New York City significant coverage in print. The paper wrote about the city’s plans for a cross-borough bike share system. And then a day later how the transformation of the 200 miles of city streets in the past few...[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
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“Spot on! I believe that incorporating concepts in anthropology (or biology, and so on) is absolutely necessary for our health in cities. It only makes sense that the environment we evolved in would impact our physiology today. How we can utilize this knowledge and research it further is crucial...”
“Great article, Kaid.Rethinking the future of what will hopefully be the inevitable demise of the suburban strip mall is an important exercise. Whether or not the next generation of strip mall tenants are big business or small scale artisans, does it really help to defuse the underlying flaws in the use patterns of the development type? The choice may change the feel of the suburbs, but isn't ...”